So, you are out and about in what feels like June but is really October or November, and you spot it for the first time that year: Christmas decorations. If you are like me, you check the date and go, ‘Already?! Seriously?!’ While many people love it (and I’m talking, ‘Let’s wear Christmas themed…
While we all judge and compare ourselves to others from time to time, for Jehovah’s Witnesses, it’s a way of life. Members of the JW religion experience a strange dichotomy where they mean nothing as individuals, but as one of the only group on earth with God’s approval, they are superior to all other…
As JWs, we became very good at accepting things we didn’t agree with. Trying to change anything or do anything other than accept the status quo was not only futile, but potentially even dangerous. You could bring shame on yourself, your family, on God, and on the organisation, only to end up cast out…