I’m not sure if this is the right community, but just wanted to spark discussion and I love hearing people’s different experiences

Inspired to ask because elsewhere I was telling a story about how I got invited to poker night at Jehovah’s Witnesses one time, and none of it made any sense to me. First of all we were not supposed to be having a party and listening to music, nor gambling, nor drinking according to the rules of JW which were outwardly acknowledged.

But they had come up with all kinds of outs and justifications, and minor rule bendings to justify basically doing all of that. I’m sitting there like thanks for including me guys but this is just a weird scene.

You’re all running off to the laundry room to make alcoholic drinks and coming back to mutually joke about how ya merely went to freshen your Kool-Aid. It was very mentally taxing

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    2 days ago

    I can’t think of a weird or baffling event of my own, but yours was definitely weird. Maybe not for the reasons you think.

    I know some JWs, and while they definitely don’t gamble, the rest of that doesn’t add up at all. They party and drink and listen to music, openly. I mean they won’t get blackout drunk, but frankly neither will I.

    How old were you guys? Maybe they had super overly strict parents?