Well I don't really think NY is so bad. Just Long Island. You see its a simple equation I think. You have a bunch of kids growing up in the suburbs where all the houses are beautiful. Then they have parents who are very uptight. But the parents instead of raising their kids allows them to hang with a clique group of kids in the area. The parents feel its good to have this happen so to support how much they love the kids they buy them a brand new car although the kids have been showered with all kinds of gifts since they were born. Anyways these rich spoiled brats and their trendy ways are usually very shallow and oversexed and boring as heck to hang out with. Anyways not all are like this but I find this to be a very very common situation. Anyways it would explain why New Jersey is the densest disfellowshipping state per capita followed by California and Florida. I mean no matter what, wherever you go you will always find weird people but I mean not everyone is so Satanically bad. I mean I can usually find the good in most people. Just some are like "lets covet our crapload of sins"
see, i think if you're saying NJ is the densest amount of disfellowshipped people, you gotta realize it's the most dense state with people, period.
i think it depends on where you live. my congregation has the best group of young people i've seen in any congregation ever. i'm not just saying that because i go there, but we have a lot of teens and 20's age people, almost all of which are taking the truth very seriously. i dont think we're had anybody get df'ed in several years, and we have people getting baptized at almost every assembly and convention. we have several new pioneers and ministerial servants, right now everything seems to be on the up and up, it's really encouraging.
well thats good. I dont mean to drag anyone down with the comments. See I live like 10 minutes from the North Jersey area. A recent hall near here had a local needs part on bestiality. Another place around here had 4 disfellowshipped teens in one shot a month ago and 2 were reproved. Now I am not going to say names or anything but a lot of them...This is not their first time getting hit with the paddle. I mean I once hung out with 3 young guys in the area and then ended up at one of their houses. The 2 other guys would not stop acting like retards around this kids father. In fact his father was not even a believer and these 2 guys just stood there poking fun of his weight and what not. I was like "oh my gosh" when I saw that happen. To have such disrespect is just very far out of line.
that's messed up. in NW jersey though, at least in my circuit anyway, all the halls seem to be doing pretty good. i'm in hackettstown, and from what i've seen the surrounding halls are doing well too. i have close friends in stanhope, randolph, and dover.
I feel that way about my new congregation. There aren't many young adults my age, but the younger ones definitely follow in the examples of their parents to develop their own relationship with Jehovah. I find that really encouraging and I feed off of their youthful zeal for Jehovah's service.
ahh...my hall is so mixed...i'd say what it's like, but the majority of the young poeple in my hall are lurkers on here...heh
That is good to hear that the DFing is low, here in OC there's at least one getting DF'd per meeting. SO SAD! We just have so much going on here and it is easy to get caught up in the mix and its sad that some let themselves get caught up in the mix. So yes, most of what you hear about So Cal is mostly true...
its not So Cal. Its the beach parties. Swimming pools, beaches, money increase DF'ing chances
one per meeting??? thats just insane
Yeah it is, at one point in our hall alone there were at least 2 being "announced" every theocratic meeting. Once the PO would walk up to the stage after announcments were done we would be like "PLEASE not another one!"
Wow, that's so sad. It makes me cringe.
dang, so how many undf'ed ones are in your congregation now?