I am new here so hi to all.
I was raised in the cult, I call it a cult because it fits.
I am selling my home and moving away because they keep coming to my home to try to get me to say I do not agree with the society, by doing this they will have all they need to DF me.
My wife wants me to just send a letter of disassociation, I see her point but I do not want them to be able to say what they want to so bad, [We had a bad person in our midst and we took action to get rid of him]
I would rather be left in good standing and keep the thorn in their side.
My wife and my self have not gone to meetings for 10 years now.
Both our families are witnesses,and they do not have anything to do with us for the most part, her mother and father will talk to her if she comes around but it all has to be on their terms. So she does not have much to do with them even though they live close.
Her brother and sister seem not to worry to much about he not going to meetings, nor do their kids, but it is hard for me to have her family around when you know in the back of their mind they are thinking about what elder so and so told them a week ago [do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers,they are now part of the world, they are apostate yda yda yda]
I am selling my home now and moving 1000 miles south, partly because I hate the winters of the north, party because of family, and partly because of getting the elder visit every 6 months or every time they see a "support our troops " sticker on my car.
I am south this winter looking at property to buy, and after I purchase a nice 6 acre pc of land with a nice mountain view, what goes up 4 miles away? A quick build hall.
arugh, I had to see those stupid souls wasting their time feeling that they are doing gods will and feeling so special and above all the other gutter trash of the world.
How fast old wounds can be brought back to the surface.
I hope that not being known as a dubber here will help me get over the anger.
My wife thinks that if they come knocking it would be ok to hit them with the child molestation and 607 arguments, but never tell them I once was a witness, she thinks they may be able to contact the old congregation and tell them to send the cards down.
Well I have rambled enough, I like reading this forum and I believe that the internet has helped so many people and shifted the power of control away from he society to the individual where it belongs.