I haven't posted for a while, but I have been lurking, morning sickness was kicking my butt. Anyway, I was out running errands yesterday and ran into an ex friend who is a Jehovah's Witness. I forgot how self centered some of them are. She went on and on about her life and whenever I would try and share something about mine, she would cut me off and turn the convo. back to her. She was just leaving the WIC clinic at the local Methodist Church in town and complaining how she was gonna finally start having to buy milk for her family after not buying it for over 8 years. I asked her about any new changes in the congregation, she told me of everyone, including herself, who was getting ready to go to Louisiana to help with the JW hurricane victims. I guess it just all pissed me off. Complaing about government benefits that she recieves when her and her family blows tons of money on extra food luxury items that I can't even afford and I am pretty well off, complaining about benefits that she should be grateful to recieve, especially since she doesn't involve herself with governmental or political issues, but finds a way to recieve the handouts. Then to travel across the country for nothing more than personal glorification at the same time questioning how she would provide for her own family.
She then turned the convo. back to the Kingdom Hall and how everyone missed me and my family, and so I took the opportunity to ask, why then was I not invited to the memorial? Why had my teacher of 3 years not even attempted to contact me? She explained that they were all just hurt when I compared the Org. to the Catholic church. I explained that I was going through a tremendous blow in my life at that time, one which made me really question the Org. and I felt justified by my question due to the fact that the Congo. was protecting a known child predator as well as my ex Jw husband who I had to get a one year restraining order from, just so me and my family would be safe.And why the Witnesses only help those of their kind, while claiming to be the religion of love..God is love...and how you could claim to make a good witness to the community when you are percieved as a selfish religion that only helps those within the religion and no one else. She suddenly had to get going ....no answers of course, then abrubtly left. Just rubbed me the wrong way, so I thought I would vent. Thanks for leting me get this off my chest.....