Did you ever 'Turn Someone In' to the elders? Do you regret it now? (page 3)

KW13

Never did any 'turning in' but i have been turned in for something, right before i became an unbaptized publisher i was told that my 'wordly conduct' had been reported meaning i should wait, i did have to wait for 3 months -for Swearing etc -

Meanwhile friends of mine (maybe the ones who turned me in) who had been trying to become Unbaptized Pubs. got to do so before me. I believe it was jealousy that caused this because they wanted to have made more 'spiritual progress'.

It took a while for me to get back into the whole thing before then, i was quite hurt by the whole thing.

AK - Jeff

Under Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao, all one had to do is suggest disloyalty and that person would disappear - sometimes publicly, sometimes under cover of night.

The WTS policy is little different, is it?

Jeff

zack

I never ratted on anyone. As an elder some in the cong, tried to "rat" on others to me and my response to them was always the same: "Have you spoken to so and so and tried to win your brother?" The answer was always "no."

JW's aren't interested in "winning" their brother. They are interested in their own survival and if it means turning in their own flesh and blood, then that's what they'll do.... all in the name of God, of course. The WTS is evil, man. EVIL.

eclipse

No, never...it felt wrong to me to make someone go to the elders for making out with their boyfriend, or for drinking/smoking....I figured, God can see them, and that person has their own conscience, so if they feel that they need to confess, they will go themselves to the elders...live and let live has always been my motto.

Mary

Nope. Never turned anyone in......I figured if Jehovah was that pissed off at them for whatever they did, He'd turn em in Himself.

reneeisorym

I turned my best friend in in 8th grade for kissing a boy. She never talked to me after that and I really regret it now. I thought I was helping her at the time. I would love to talk to her now.

38 Years

I didn't. I had more friends that way. I had friends that were very spiritually strong, and some who were more fun.

Flowerpetal

I never turned anyone in, but I did ask an elder to help a sister who called me one day, crying her eyes out because she was depressed, and her husband didn't seem to care about her, etc., etc., etc. She called me because I was at that time, a MS's wife. So I approached this elder who was sent to our cong. and he seemed like someone who was good at counseling people....and as time went by, they ended up having an affair, both got Df'd. and were divorced. So in their DF'd state, they got married, time went by, and they were reinstated and about 21/2 years after their marriage, they got divorced.

She is still single and I don't know where he is--he left the cong.

What a waste of everything.......

aligot ripounsous

well, well, since we have to confess,

when I was single, I had a feeling for a young sister, unfortunately she was leading a double life with a chap who had picked her up in the train. I didn't know she was going to bed with him but I was so upset not to see her attending meetings as often as I would have liked so that I could have courted her, I said to an elder, may be, you know, he could give her a sheperding call to help her since, of course, I had only her spiritual welfare in mind (BTW what is the smiley for tongue in cheek ?) and by the time he followed my suggestion she was pregnant...

Thegoodgirl

I did, and really regret it. My mom really pushed and pushed us into telling and reporting on people. So sorry to those who I told on.

See how a cult will warp a poor girl's mind? No wonder I didn't have great friends at the KH. Finally, when I was in late teens, I met other girls in the cong my age just as "spiritually strong" as I was. Well, they of course turned their backs on me as soon as I honestly told why I wasn't going to meetings anymore. So I got a taste of my own medicine.

Did you ever 'Turn Someone In' to the elders? Do you regret it now?

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