The Jehovah's witnesses were just around....why the fuck were they driving a hummer?

[HEyHEY]

Seriously? Is that what jesus would drive? I'm dead serious this isn't one of those made up DU stories, they got into a silver H2 and drove off after I told them I didn't want a watchtower.

[slackmaster]

1. It's probably a lot easier then pushing the sonofabitch

:shrug:

[Kahuna]

8. tee hee, Good one.

:)

[w4rma]

2. Jehovah's Witnesses believe the world is fucked no matter what anyone does.

So, those particular ones apparently have no problem speeding the world along to it's imagined demise.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Maybe they figure it'll be handy during the apocalypse?

Isn't the standard unspoken reason for SUVs that they'll be needed to run over dozens of panicking pedestrians in the even of an apocalyptic catastrophe?

[deaniac21]

4. There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,

"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

[JVS]

5. My JW friends drive a plain ford

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Probably not your particular situation, but here's a story that would explain it if it were me.

I knew an old man who couldn't live by himself. A girl from Guatamala was hired to take care of him, e.g, make meals, watch him, etc. Six months later, she married and her husband moved in with her and the old man. The pay was good: $900 tax free and $200 for meals EACH WEEK. The girl took her $1100 weekly pay and bought only rice and beans and invested the rest with a fellow Witness who also had immigrated from Latin America. He parlayed her money until she and her husband were driving new cars and bought investment property which included a house and a strip mall. She spent more time on the computer checking her stocks rather than taking care of the old man. (By that time, she had two sons whom demanded the little time from the old man.) Finally, one day, the old man grew sick and died. The girl was so grief stricken, it appeared she would throw herself after the casket. Part of me always speculated it was because the gravy train stopped.

I would've expected her to have a Hummer in due course too. Her JW fellowship believed in God rewarding those whom he loved best.

[Schema Thing]

9. Not monetarily it didn't...

JW's can be accused of believing a lot of nutty things (I was one for 36 years, so I know), but not that God will reward them monetarily.

In fact, it's a pretty hard ass doctrine in every way... the leadership is fond of mentioning a scripture that in essence says (I can't remember exactly): "do this righteously, and that righteously, be a sheeplike follower, and then probably you may be rewarded by God"; wherein the only real "reward" from their god is to live through armageddon and have life eternal in paradise. They don't spend a lot of time thinking or talking about present day benefits of being a Jehovah's Witness. In fact, growing up, they used to emphasise how hard life was and was going to continue to be for JW's, always being persecuted by the world for our faith and all. They quieted down about that more recently, since it seems no one can be arsed to "persecute" the Witnesses in most parts of the world.

All that said, there are individual Witnesses who are very materialistic, like your example and maybe the OP's. But it's definitly not the culture of the religion.

In fact, I find the OP's example odd not because of any doctrine, but because they very much discourage "showy displays" and more importantly, they very much discourage college and time intensive careers.

[Berry Cool]

10. They don't seem to encourage much of anything.

One reason I could never have become one: they don't celebrate holidays.

[old mark]

12. I used to work with several JW's, and overall they did not

seem like a fun crowd.

They struck me as kind of tired,thin and overworked looking.

I was brought up and educated in Catholic schools, and have always been interested in the oddities of various religions. The Mormons, Witnesses and 7th Day Adventists are very interesting to me, along with my old school team, the RC's.

If I may, I wish you a happier life now that you are out of there.

mark

[pipi_k]

7. Was it steel plated too?

My best guess would be that they got tired of being shot at all the time and wanted something that would allow them a faster, safer getaway.

Plus with a Hummer, they can invade all the more rural sections they couldn't get to before...at least not in the winter

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. When you're going to refuse blood transfusions, you want as much metal around you as possible

in case of accident. Pity that means others are more likely to get hurt as a result.