they proved to me once and for all that they have gone completely bananas.
I sent it without any commentary, just 'link attached'. Mind you now, we do not speak. They send me stupid religious stuff, I throw it away, without comment. It makes them wonder, 'Did she get our mail?' they ask my one ex-jw sister, 'Did they move?', 'Is her husband beating her?' (all ex-jw husbands are spousal abusers, they logic).
I send them UN and blood fractions rhymes and pizza metaphors, they write back, 'How could you? You've gone off the deep end', a favorite phrase of my mother's, you see we had a pool growing up and she's always been afraid of the water and. . .well, I just don't get what it means. Or, 'where did you read that? the internet?' I'm tempted to send them vacation pictures and a MapQuest attachment, maybe they'll see the Devil's face in the San Francisco Bay.
But I sent the AMW link mostly as a warning, mostly. . .mostly at night. This McClean creature, we all know, he could be hiding out in a local congregation as an interested person, or as a district overseer. We know this.
My parents wrote back, my mother did anyways. I know this because it was in all CAPS, although I've told her that that's rude because all caps is yelling in email. She wrote: WE'RE JUST FINE TOO......THANKS FOR ASKING ABOUT US. YOUR LINK JUST PROVES ONE THING, THAT THE ELDERS ARE ON THE BALL, PROTECTING THE FLOCK. YOUR NEGATIVITY WILL GET YOU NO WHERE.
I decided firmly and with reservation or hesitation that I would absolutely not reply, because it wasn't my intent to further our past arguments.
So I replied: I cannot ask how you are because you have told me in writing that you do not like small talk and will not 'engage in idle chatter with someone like me'. But since you brought it up, according to John Walsh and America's Most Wanted, the elders are so 'on the ball' that this animal McClean has got away with abusing children for decades because the elders have enforced the 'two witnesses' policy. Certainly you also don't know that one of the largest child abuse settlements was just paid by the Watchtower Society under strict gag order. Well, you can be glad of one thing, mom and dad, when you're on your deathbeds, you can honestly say, 'At least we haven't talked to our youngest daughter in 10 years', and it will all have been worth it, won't it, you can say that you lived forever. But our child will never know you, and while that used to make me cry, but it doesn't anymore, because you're not you anymore.
And I hate to say these mean things, but what else can wake these people up? We are planning to start a family, my husband and I wonder how could we say, "We willl make babies, but we will only love them if they share our religion."
I hate JWs.