your letter is great- but their is one problem you are writing it to a dyed in the wool society man,
so i have to ask why are you writing this letter, is it to provide you with the freedom that you need to move on, then great- but is it to help your dad see why you have chosen this course, for example you state the following
1. I am not a threat to the congregation.
2. I don’t plan on discussing these issues with anyone else.
3. I just want to walk away and start over.
4. I’m not planning on becoming immoral, or
5. becoming a Satan worshiper.
Now unless your dad has his own doubts and concerns about the organization- you sound like an Apostate to me-
anyone who questions the org is by default a threat to the congo, for he will say, see how you are trying to destroy MY Faith
you said you want to walk away, walk away from WHAT is what the mind of a jw ask, see you and i and the rest of us know you are talking about the org NOT GOD- but sad to say that is not what it means to a devoted jw, in his eyes you are like job was told to be, curse god and die
as for being immoral, you are thinking about runing women smoking dope,etc, not him to him it goes well beyond such conduct, to question the mouth pc of god is like Moses sister questioning him in gods sight
and the last one was the funniest one of all, we all know what you meant, a Satan worshiper, ---
but in the mind of a jw, if you are not worshiping the true god like he is Then who are you serving, - so yes he will veiw you as a worshiping of Satan , one who deliberatly chose to worship and tried to get him to join in with you
recall the kids of Korah and Daithan and the Boys-
their family rejected them when they turned on gods channel moses and remained faithful- well most jw see themselves in the same situation when a family approches them with such a letter
not trying to rain on your parade. i've just seen too many former jw burn down brigdes that otherwise they could have used to deliver droplets of info t their family to get out
i just hate to see you join the long list of former jw who only wish they had handled it another way
if you day is a good society man, then he is programmed to shut down faster than a ATM machine on the 3rd wrong try
being that we all know that, i just feel we need to be smarter in our approach to dealing with jw, we all know the rountine, we need to approach it much better
i firmly beleive that many former jw could have gotten better results if they had approached it from a different angle
in the 8yrs online i have seen very few Frontal approaches that work effectively-
as i tell folks the same way you don't become a jw by over night, you will not leave over night, it is a slow process
just think folks study for 6months to years- yes it is a Slow Roast technique the jw use on the person to get them in and get them in securely too-
so we have to walk them out in a slow manner as well
i believe that getting your family out IF you can by taking a different approach is well worth it
today my mom, dad, bro sister and some cousins are OUT , my inlaws, sister inlaw and some of my wife's cousins are out as well
it took us 8yrs i guess, but this past year we celebrated christmas as a family and we all cried at all the years and relatives we avoided all of these years
i have a cousin who is a very high ranking Petagon official in the Bush Adminstration- i never met him until christmas he is 42yrs old, all i knew about him was that over the years he was one of the Miltiary men that the birds were going to eat his eyes out during Armegedom
everyone in the family laughed when i related what i actually beleived about him- how sad
just my two