Ask me about being in Jehovah's Witnesses

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask me about being in Jehovah's Witnesses

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

I know from ex-Witnesses that they're really unfriendly to college education. How did they convey this growing up?

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Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

Benne posted:

My parents actively discouraged me from going to college because of the "worldly" influences. Everybody else in the congregation did this. It is very much a thing.

Did they have any particular tall tales of what went on at college (or educational films, or books), or do accusations of worldliness suffice among JW's?

# ¿ Mar 19, 2015 06:45

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

When I was living in the dorms in Sweden, we got a lot of Mormon and JW missionaries. None of the Mormons we got were very good at Swedish, but the vast majority of the JW's couldn't speak it at all.

Am I assuming correctly that JWs' foreign missionaries aren't as organized?

# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 06:12

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

DontMockMySmock posted:

This isn't really a JW question,

# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 02:21

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