Frank Goad
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I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
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I have found JWs to be representative of humanity, you have vain egotistical types, lovers and liers, humble and proud amongst them.I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
Maybe sometimes. Every group has good people and bad people.
Although my real life encounters with JWs are more often than not less than civil.
Bit of both, reallyIs that because of your incivility or theirs?
I used to know a JW person...I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
No. They are however among the most peaceful. They take their pacifism really serious. (And will violently kick anyone out who isn't. ;-)I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
No. They are however among the most peaceful. They take their pacifism really serious. (And will violently kick anyone out who isn't. ;-)
I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
I don't think that (passive) aggressive arguing is militant. I can use aggressive language and condemn physical violence at the same time.Something just occurred to me...
They are pretty passive aggressive even in their publication and use of the bible. So they are nice to a person, but might make remarks about how "blind" people are or that they are lead by Satan.
Also, they do pray for the end to come, in which case they are OK with God killing the majority of the earths population through Jesus, and the anointed, some who are the JW leaders.
The passive aggressiveness is really irritating.
The last point probably means that there are no truly pacifist group out there, especially if they are fundamentalists.
I don't think that (passive) aggressive arguing is militant. I can use aggressive language and condemn physical violence at the same time.
I hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
Not judging by @DeejeI hear that jws are some of the most loving people you could ever meet face to face.Is that true?
Yes, we do have our “men are the boss” chauvinist types, but thankfully they are a few dinosaurs of a by gone era.....if you remember back to the 40’s and 50’s, “the man of the house” was served by his dutiful, compliant wife and his well disciplined children (who did not want a session behind the woodshed)......but that is not the kind of headship that the Bible promotes.Not in my experience. Most that come to my house door to door are open and friendly but I worked 2 years with a JW and he was forceful and bitter, he was the man of the house and treated the family as such (in his words). I heard after I left he eventually was divorced by his wife, who also took his kids. He of course may have been an exception but is the only JW I know outside of them coming up to my door. All this comes from his words to me. I personally never met his family.
I have met several Jehovah's Witness at the front door, considering i resented their intrusion into our family life i won't go into the evils of door knocking to proselytise.
The only JW i really knew was my childhood friends mother, who converted to become JW. Loving? I think not considering she broke up the family because her husband and son would not convert. She walked out on her family, how loving is that?
Not judging by @Deeje
But of course every religion has its oddballs. The JWs that come round to try to evangelise me I've always found to be vey patient and friendly, if misguided.
Not loving at all......but I’m sure you did not have all the details. This is certainly NOT the norm in our brotherhood, in fact a man or woman who did anything like that without scriptural grounds (adultery, physical abuse or having their mental well being seriously affected) would be counseled with a view to mending a rift, and reuniting a family, but after many attempts to help, they may even be disciplined if there was no response to that loving counsel. Separation can be an option in certain circumstances, but unless there was adultery, no divorce with a view to remarriage, is scripturally acceptable. (According to Jesus’ words)
Marriage is God’s forever arrangement for us, with only two ways to dissolve that union...(adultery or death)....so our divorce rate is quite low in a world where marriage sometimes doesn’t last much longer than a very expensive wedding day......if they bother to get married at all. We value marriage.