by restrangled 19 Replies latest jw friends
Scully,
Yes I was furious after I heard those remarks. All I could think was you just played this game with me and are now regretting it by contacting me and trying to preach once again,....... because I didn't bite the hook the society said would work to get me reeled back in.
r.
You're right restrangled, they have been conditioned to believe their shunning will work, so now she has to try again. She has to initiate some contact and then shun you all over again, Remember, "Mother Org" cant be wrong.
LOL, I love the dobie threat! I wonder if it would have the same effect if you said you had ravenous poodles!!!
I have a rabid parakeet.
Well, he bites, anyways.
Hubert
Hi Hubert,
Birds can be a nice scare threat too!!!! Use to have an African Grey parrot that could take a finger off if he was in the mood! LOL
r,
That comment from your Mom,
"Apostates need to grow up and get over it..."
is the BEST SHE CAN DO.
She can't answer your questions, because you know more than she does, and she can't handle the truth about "the Trooth", so she wants YOU to stop.
Ask her how that whole sky-is-fallin' thing is working out for her. Then laugh yourself silly.
Forgive her love!!!! She knows not what she is doing...I would ask her if she ever heard of Beth Serim.... She might be like my JW daughter said when some one mentioned it to her, "I dont want to Know what Beth Serim said she is probably a lying apostate
When one of my sisters left the org, I was listed as the executor of my parent's estate. My dad told me that he was cutting my sister out of the will. I never told her that. I thought it was a very hurtful thing to do. I told my wife I would split any inheritance I got with my sister.
Of course, I'm gone too now. I seriously doubt that I am still the executor, and am probably not in the will either. But I don't care. I don't need their money. It's pretty pathetic to think that they can or should buy your loyalty to this religion. I remember counsel given from the platform that asked how much money we would accept to leave the "truth". The reasoning was that we should not let secular work interfere with our meeting attendance, by working overtime for instance. But I guess it's okay to pay you to stay in!
LOL, Thanks Mouthy, that Beth Sarim experience really made me laugh.
grey matters writes:
I seriously doubt that I am still the executor, and am probably not in the will either. But I don't care. I don't need their money.
This is one reason why I am sooooo glad that I went back to school after leaving the JWs. What little inheritance I may have had from my JW relatives is certainly not worth selling out my personal integrity and conscience for.
It offends me greatly that so many JW parents attempt to use this shallow tactic to keep their children beholden to the Organization.
Morning Restrangled! I too would be very annoyed if my parents spouted rubbish like that at me.
I'm at the point where I really am not too bother what they do or don't do, as long as I don't have to hear about it!
I used to cry over the fact that my JW relatives would disown me, and now I wish they would all just bugger of and leave us alone! Sometimes you outgrow people, whether they are your relatives or not. I look at them with pity and want to just move as far away as possible from them.....which in time I will. My husband will certainly not be receiving any inheritance form his Shunful parents, and I am not interested in anything from my parents.
We can stand on our own two feet now. Our job is to help our children and make our next generation stronger and freer! We can't take any money with us when we go, but we can make sure that our children, and grandchildren are well educated and have the necessary skills for a successful life.
Sometimes, you just have to look at your parents with pity, rise above them....and let them go. They are adults and they get what they deserve from choosing not to use their own reasoning powers.
