by Elsewhere 19 Replies latest jw friends
I have been communicating with a reporter who is writing an article about Jehovah's Witnesses and ex-Jehovah's Witnesses who have been shunned after accepting blood or blood products.
If you or anyone you know has been shunned after accepting blood or blood products, please let me know so I can put you in contact with the reporter.
Thanks,
Elsewhere
Elsewhere, are you checking with the contacts on the www.ajwrb.org site?
The crime is not the shunning after receiving blood medical treatment, but the crime is the threat of inflicting the pain of being shunned for taking blood treatment.
garybuss has a good point. I agonized for two long years (both with physical pain and with wrestling the shunning threat) before finally consenting to have a huge surgery that, in the end required 4 (count 'em-- 4 !!!) units of blood as well as the surgery being performed in two stages, six days apart, to deal with the amount of blood loss during the first surgery.
After all was said and done, my JW ex-husband and sons never came to visit me in the hospital (I was in for two weeks--and I'm inactive, not DF'd or DA'd). My worldly mom let it slip on the phone to my ex that I was receiving two units of blood right then. She says he said nothing in response to that--she's not even sure he caught it. But after the surgery my kids are not talking to me--supposedly about something unrelated but completely bogus, regardless (and my ex won't even let them talk with me about that circumstance). I don't know if it's just more of my ex's paranoid/ mind control abuse or if he really did catch the fact that I accepted blood--but is instructed by WTS not to question me about it--and is shunning me because of the blood or the unrelated stuff, or both.
If the reporter would want my story, I'd be willing to talk. There's a lot of telling elements even beyond the blood issue in the story I have to share.
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elsewhere--What does "bttt" mean?
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What a crappy religion. I hope you're doing well now!
I know I didn't accept blood and nearly lost my life because I was afraid of shunning but funnily enough not dying. Stupid isn't it!
Funnily enough, when you still can't walk more than a few yards without getting out of breath, weeks after surgery, no JWs come round to help you with anything but, they sure nag you about why you're not back at the meetings yet, and are you having trouble with your spiritual health! However, they can't help you physically because they have to put Jehovah first and get lots of lovely hours in so that they look like the sun is shinning from their arses!
(((((((((((((((( Gil )))))))))))))))))---------Sorry you went throught that. The lack of real compassion is staggering!
I went through the lack-of-help thing when I was telling them for years prior to my surgery that I needed help in that regard [physically]. All they would say is, Do you need help getting to the meetings or out in field service? (in other words, do I need someone to pick me up) Any other form of help was treated as a foreign---'does not compute'---concept to them. The only way people got any physical help was if they had family members in the 'truth' willing to help pick up the slack (which I did not have, and my husband at the time certainly was not willing!).
By the time I finally did have the surgery, I had pretty much made up my mind that having the JW's come around to my house was the last thing that would be helpful to my healing--physically AND spiritually--so I rarely have contact except occasionally listening to the Sunday meetings over the phone. Some days I can't stand to do even that.
bttt = Bump To The Top (This just lets everyone know I posted for the sole purpose of making this thread appear at the top of the list)
bttt could also be interpreted as the sound one makes by blowing while sticking out one's tongue.
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