Jehovah’s Witnesses stop tracking proselytizing hours

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I remember someone here mentioning that he or she had been a Jehovah's Witness. This article might be of interest.

https://apnews.com/article/jehovahs-wit ... oon%20Wire

Wow! It’s hard to wrap my brain around it, actually. Until I left the religion, I logged and turned in a form every month, like everyone else, that listed the hours I preached, return visits I made, books/magazines/brochures I placed, and Bible studies I conducted (only to those without penises - 1 Timothy 2:11-15).

Turning the form in was a stressful pain in the ass. It was the way they measured spirituality, and it determined how elders and, often, the way the congregation would treat you.

There was also this tidbit in the article:

I wonder if they are going to claim that the Great Tribulation has already started in the near future. I’m sure they could scrounge up support for it in the Bible, perhaps related to the situation in Israel.

I should explain. The Great Tribulation is a period of time right before Armageddon when people, especially governments worldwide, will turn against and persecute JWs.

My pap is coming over for Not-Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow (or was it Saturday?). He's a Jehovah's Witness.

I remember when the Jehovah's Witnesses were claiming that the world would come to an end before all of the World War I veterans had died off. Well, they've all died off, so the end of the world had to be postponed.

I think the world is supposed to end when everyone born before or during the birth of Israel post WWII die off.

JWs have given various end of world predictions over the years: 1874, 1914, in that generation’s lifetime (we weren’t supposed to get to the point where people alive during 1914 all died off), 1975, and now I think it’s the more general in this era sort of stuff. The leadership finally figured out that vague is the way to go. Not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Apparently, a significant number left after the prediction regarding 1975 didn’t happen.

Is it tense because someone might trip up and say the T word? My whole family is JW, so I never experienced that scenario. Of course, we usually had a Thanksgiving-type meal around Thanksgiving on account of turkeys being on sale…

Thanksgiving is a meh holiday. I wanted to celebrate Christmas or my birthday. I’ve never received a birthday present. Well, it's not that big of a deal. Still, it would be sort of nice.

If my other grandparents are coming on the same day, my other pap might want to say grace, but I don't think that's allowed for JWs either.

In other news about JW's: Knock, knock: Jehovah’s Witnesses resume door-to-door work. So they are still going to be annoying the rest of us, even if they've stopped annoying themselves quite as much.

The best way to get them to stop bothering you is asking them to put you on their do-not-call list. Saying you aren't interested will keep them away for some time but not as long. Their procedure is sort of like telemarketers'.