That statement is used by the sheeple minded jw drones that walk around..... There are basically two types of JW... The realists that understand that you need to have a job and you can't walk around for 600000000 hours a week witnessing and we generally go out only on sat for like 1-2 hours tops. Then you have what you all hate and I understand it.... THE SUPER WITNESS!!!!! The super witness thinks that god will provide always and that you should live as a complete poor person in order to do nothing but preach.... This is WRONG! But no one ever remembers the "normal" witnesses and yes some of us toke up. Some of us also watch tons of anime and still give gifts to certain friends but we just make sure the Super Witnesses don't hear about it. Most don't celebrate because we are supposed to give each day to god and the extreme witnesses think it is "false worship" of that person to make a day just for them.... I give gifts and I LOVE CAKE!!!!!! But seriously the people that I have pulled into fellowship with me I had a personal relationship with for a long time. The pamphlet is more of a "Hey bro are you feeling all the hard times that we all are? Well if you are then here is some info on spirituality and if you want more information I will be happy to arrange a meeting." kind of deal. Most of us are happy to discuss things in an open forum of thinking. As for science I mix mine in with my religion. I know the Earth isn't 6000 years old like some sort of whack job. But who's to say that god didn't create everything and let evolution finish off his plans like a built in code like for a computer program. I have no problem with this because you will notice humans are evolving even now. We are supposed to be created in his image so whats to say god is nothing more than a human shell with the ability to use 100% of his brain functions as we are limited to 10%. I love these discussions and bring them up with Super Witnesses just to troll them. But any way the Super Witnesses make up 25-35% of the pool so just brush them off and look for the guy chillin walking up to your house joking with his field service partner. (this is what we call witnessing is going out into field service). I only average like 5-10 hrs of this a month. Feel free to ask questions as long as you are respectful at the same time guys and gals.
P.S.- I have hair almost to my butt and I'm a male plus I grow trees in my closet.... LOTS OF TREES!
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What .... the .... fuck .... LOL!! I'm not going to argue with you, but you are not a "JW" man. And if you are and believe the way you do then you are not a real JW. At least I admit I am not a JW anymore and prolly won't ever be again, but I grew up in that religion until i was about 22 years old. To say "Brush Off the "Super" Witnesses" is just wrong and dumb. There are 2 types of witnesses though you are right about that. There are witnesses that devote their life to teaching people the bible and there are those who just have their "toe in the water". You should remember that analogy since it's been used at every district convention since the beginning of time lol. Those are the ones leading the double life. They put on the show for everyone in the Kingdom Hall and then lead their own life outside of it, aka smoking weed and god knows what else. There are witnesses like you said, they work and support their family and don't devote the proper attention to being a JW and they could very well be all for doing right and what not, but mostly not.
As for not celebrating christmas and brithdays. Christmas is believed to be jesus birthday world wide, however it has been proven over and over that jesus was born sometime in late june/august. Which is why the shepards were out in the fields with their flocks in the middle of the night, sleeping in the fields. Also it is why the 3 wise men were able to travel so easy. If it was the end of december, they would have frozen and the flocks wouldn't be sleeping in the fields. So it's a false holiday. JW's do however celebrate his death after sundown on winters solstice. Has something to do with the moon according to the calendar (i forget the name but the date of that calendar is Nissan 14). As far as birthdays, there are 2 birthdays recorded in the bible. One had the head of John the baptist cut off and the other was a Pharoah hanging his chief Baker. Those are the only mention of birthdays in the bible and are examples of murder and nowhere does it say to continue celebrating them. It does however tell of the story of the last super where it says "Keep on doing this in remembrance of me .... until he comes". 1 Cor 11:24-26. That is the only mention of the bible telling us to keep doing (celebrating) things.
Now there are gifts given to other witnesses all the time, so you saying "
Most don't celebrate because we are supposed to give each day to god and the extreme witnesses think it is "false worship" of that person to make a day just for them" is retarded. What about weddings? Graduations? etc etc... Witnesses have been giving gifts like that all over the place. Jesus first miracle was giving a gift at a wedding, water to wine.
I'm sorry man, yer a little messed up there. I'm not defending the witnesses here because in all honesty they don't need me to do it lol. I just don't like people sitting here saying they are something they are not and lying to everyone else like this.
EDIT: I also wanna know how watching anime had anything to do with .... anything lol!!! I about cried laughing when I read that, was like BAM!! hit me from the side, out of nowhere! LOL!!!! What hall do you go to and who is your Presiding Overseer?
And the bible says to follow the laws of the land (your government) unless it interfers with god's laws ... I'm pretty sure smoking weed has nothing to do with god's law 
