why do elders always pass on your private info?

by hamsterbait 13 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  tall penguin

  "Not before he told them he met an elder - for 25 years- at a drag ball. This guy had been doing it even before he was appointed"
  Puts a whole new spin on 'putting on the new personality'. ;)
  tall penguin
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  blindersoff

  Dune

  I plan on getting my report before i switch congregations, i just want to see what kind of info they have on me in there, and perhaps if i can do a little bit of doctoring myself :-d.

  Sorry, it doesn't work that way. When they MAIL your pub card (which is cong property) to the new cong, they send any pertinent comments. You might ask them before you leave if there is anything they feel the need to report about you. We had an elder move in one time with a letter that the previous cong would not recommend him, yet they had never talked to him about it.

  B
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  dorayakii

  hamsterbait: I knew someone who struggled with cross-dressing for many years.

  Swan: He must not be doing it right. Obviously he needs to stop wearing clothes too small for him.

  I mean, we women have to struggle too sometimes, especially after the holidays, but for years?

  
  

  
  BWAHAHAHAHA!! Thats a good one...

  Although i'm no longer a "Christian" i know that it's all supposed to be about forgiveness and blotting out of sins. The Watchtower Society don't believe in forgiveness, but instead want to keep records and information about individual publishers so that there is no risk of them "infecting" others with their sinfullness.

  Actually, REWIND ......i take that back, (I just thought of the case of paedophiles being allowed to continue to serve in the cong). They don't care about spreading the wrongdoing particularly, they just want to know the dirt so they can feel that they be in a position to control. My father always brags about different things he knows as an Elder. "But i wouldn't want to burden you with all that, that's why Jehovah has the Body of Elders to bear the burden". Yawwwwwn......

  I for one NEVER revealed any "problems" that i was "dealing with" while i was a Witness, not even to my Elder father. One, i was too ashamed to admit that i was gay, and two, i was afraid that it would become common knowledge and that i would be marked. I always feared eyes looking at me in a negative or critical way, and besides, I had too perfect of an image in my congregation...
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  slugga

  I for one NEVER revealed any "problems" that i was "dealing with" while i was a Witness, not even to my Elder father. One, i was too ashamed to admit that i was gay,

  Clever you.

  I knew someone who was DF'd for being gay, afterwards there was a witch hunt by the elders, all his male associates in that congregation and others he visited where hauled into the library one by one and questioned about their friendship with him and asked if they were gay too.... he wasn't very popular afterwards lol

  Even if you had fessed up about having those feelings you would have been un officially marked. Trips to the swimming pool with brothers would have been a no go for you because of the changing rooms and brothers wouldn't want to be alone with you in-case the elders started thinking stuff with their dirty little minds

  Matt