Gumby - Just be glad that they're all still JWs. Think how expensive christmas and Birthdays would become if you had to spend on all those relatives!
I used to cry over my relatives - Now, they can kiss my ar-*tichokes!
Are a lot of your relatives starting to exit the Witnesses?
by free2beme 22 Replies latest jw friends
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rekless
You see, she lost her parents in the 1986 within a couple of months of each other, and never got over it (I have never seen such an extreme example of mourning, this many years later, from anyone). I lost my son in 1988 and it took me 10 years to be able to talk about him without crying and my wife never did, she died 12 years later.
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gumby
Rekless, sorry you had such a tough road buddy. It's funny how those with such a supposed strong hope can mourn as they do, yet they do. I wonder how much we believed what we thought we believed? As for your wife not crying.....maybe she just was able to bury it so as not to feel it....I don't know.
Gill, yer right! The more dub family I got, the more dollarinies I can save to buy me stuff instead ...and, if I was one of yer dub relatives, could I kiss yer artichokes?
Gumby.......plannin on gettin re-baptized
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startingover
Not a one! Althought they don't shun me, if I ever breathe anything slightly religious I can see the eyes glaze over. And funny, they don't seem to care much about bringing me back to their fold either, at least they don't bother to ask me what I'm thinking.
An exception is my mother in law with whom I never hold back telling her what I think. I got into a discussion with her about 607 and then I caught myself. What the hell was I thinking. I don't want her on my side!
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gumby
An exception is my mother in law with whom I never hold back telling her what I think. I got into a discussion with her about 607 and then I caught myself. What the hell was I thinking. I don't want her on my side!
LMAO !
Sometimes I wonder if having all my dub relatives turning apostate is such a good plan myself....lol
Gumby
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startingover
I can think of others who are not relatives who I seriously doubt I would share anything with even if they came and asked me.
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mrsjones5
It's like quicksand, once you get in it's hard to get out. Most of my older relatives who are jws are still in it. Some of the children are in and some are out like me.
Josie
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anewme
Starting Over, your replies cracked me up!!!!
God I wish I had some emoticons!!!!!
Oh well, after reading a few others here I think its time I said to my relatives to kiss mine too!!
(Envision an appropriate emoticon!)
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Virgochik
Sometimes, I think a ray of light pierces through the mental fog and they smell a rat. But, they are elderly now, and all their lifelong friends go to the Hall, so I think that's got alot to do with them still smirking and trudging to meetings, to see their friends. It's something to get out of the house and go do.
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collegegirl21
I agree with you for some families... although my family isn't like that. Although I think my mom is going through the same thing, her mom died 10 years ago and right after she died my mom got baptized and started saying how she'll see my grandma when the resurrection occurs. I think that's the only reason why she's holding on because my grandma was everything to my mom. I didn't even think of that until you said it, thanks! :)