Daughter (15) recently told my wife and I that she has a huge crush on this boy (17) from school who’s hanging out with her friend group a lot these days. She said he can’t date because he’s a Jehovah’s Witness. All wife & I knew before is that they’re some Christian group. From what we read online they seem to be pretty radical & abstract stuff like 144000 (?), Armageddon. They even get called a cult.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I have very little personal experience with them, but I used to work with a guy who was raised JW, and he had nothing good to say about them. He lived it and called it a cult, so I’ll take his word on it.

    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 days ago

      Same experience here. A former co-worker and good friend was raised JW, and was practicing for all the time I worked with him.

      We used to have long conversations about it, as I was raised CofE, so was fascinated by some of the more extreme takes.

      Anyway, he now only refers to them as “the cult” and has absolutely nothing good to say about them.

    • hedge_lord@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      My childhood best friend was raised in a JW family and eventually became an atheist. He also refers to it as a cult. I’m really proud of him for getting out of it, because doing so was difficult (because of it being a cult!) and took a lot of strength

    • kubok@fedia.io
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      13 days ago

      Same. I had a classmate who was JW (or rather, his parents were). He was an actual nice kid who was frendly to everybody, had a good sense of humor and was quite smart. One day, he fell in love with a girl outside of his community (i.e. not a JW). He got the choice of either being ostracized or breaking up with her. That’s not a choice I’d want to make in my late teens. Last I heard of him is that he made it out.