by PaNiCAtTaCk 24 Replies latest jw friends
I turned in my best friend at the time. When I first became a witness, he and I became good friends. I figured, who could I go wrong, his brother and father are elders. Wrong! This guy was a drunkard, even the kool aid was spiked with vodka. Well, after seeing him drunk more times than I saw him sober. I went to the elders out of concern for him as my friend. He held it against me for a little while, then forgave me. Alcohol ruined his life, he got married, got divorce, got df'd. Lost touch!
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Yes....me too. (oh the shame!) I felt like it was an obligation. I have also been told on. It is sooooo petty.
I never told on anyone but was disfellowshipped twice because someone told on me. I remember the first time the girl that told on me said that her parents were making her. She was just as guilty as I was and she told on me.
The second time the girl told on me, I got df and she later left and was df for her own personal mistakes. She couldn't look at me after that.
I'm so glad that I don't have to go through all of that sh** now.
I managed to rat out a friend by accident. She was planning to have her tubes tied after 5 kids.
I had recently been impressed by the way the congregation rallied around a sister who had broken her foot (elder's wife, but they were down-home southern African-American folk, so I don't hold that against her /:)). So I told the elders sister Frazzled was planning to have surgery and could surely use the congregation's help afterwards.
I did not tell them what kind of surgery.
A few days later she came up to me and snarled, "Thanks for nothing, GentlyFeral!" Turns out it's "wrong" to have your tubes tied and they'd talked her out of it.
GentlyFeral
I have to not so proudly raise my hand to the question and answer yes.
Me too. I told on a Brother? who was sleeping with my friend ( she was not a JW) He was D/f but then got reinstated & married my friend. She became a JW.... Then I ratted on him again when he was smoking...He was D/F again. But stopped smoking after he got esophugus cancer..& was reinstated... they both died as JWS after I was D/F I loved them both very much....I really dislike Mouthy for some of the things I did as a LOYAL follower of a false Prophet.
No, I never turned anybody in for wrongdoing- I was too busy looking over my shoulder trying to make sure I didn't get caught.
I can happily say that I never turned anyone in. I had too much dirt in my own life. Why be a hypocrite?
Guilty as charged. :(
I turned in someone for cleaning the union hall during a strike. He wouldn't walk the picket line, but in order to get the union-strike pay he cleaned the union hall. JWs were are not allowed to take part in strikes in any way (maybe they still can't) and I ran to the elders about this sin. The guy is still a JW (this happened about 25-years ago)--some folks never seem to learn.
It's shamefull to think about the things you did as a brain-dead JW.
like a dumb ass, i turned myself in 4 times and got d'f'd 2 times. i should kick my own ass.
