by RULES & REGULATIONS 30 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
A few years ago I read in the Awake! about a family who was traveling to an assembly. On the way they stopped at a swimming hole, and their son drowned. Of course, they were saddened. They thought about not attending the assembly, but they went anyway. I believe they were late though.
I am appalled and sickened at reading this. I feel like throwing up. I feel like strangling someone at headquarters. How can the R&F NOT see how effing BRAINWASHED they are???
My father died when I was 13, it was on a thursday. I still gave the talk to that I was assigned that night.
(((((darth))))))
HOW come they still made you give the DAMN talk???? Your father just died!!! what the F is wrong with these people??
I'm sorry for getting mad.
It's not so much that anyone makes you do this, as it is that you have been soooooo conditioned to see this as an appropriate response to a traumatic event, that speaks volumes. (Meaning those who have been through a traumatic event as opposed to those who have created a trauma.)
To feel a compulsion to attend a meeting after a traumatic event is an indicator of something pretty powerful. And not in a good way;
When I was young: car rolled on the way to the meeting. My sister has had spinal problems ever since, but we made it to that meeting anyway - it was the CO visit!
A few years ago, driving to the meeting I passed a huge car wreck. My bible study was driving to the meeting and rolled her car - it was basically a ball of wrecked metal with her in a little safety bubble in the middle. She went to hospital, I went to the meeting.
every meeting there are ones ill with a cold or something and sneezes and coughing but still attending. i hate that. makes the meetings a bacteria mothership all the time.
i did it too though. ill, work, service, meeting, all on one day.
I developed a history of skipping a lot of meetings...felt a bit guilty, but skipped them nonetheless. My excuses began that I was sick and didn't want to spread the sickness to others, then that I was up all night playing video games and needed to sleep sometime (I got a shepherding call on that one...teehee), and finally, that I was just too depressed to do much of anything. Notice the progression here: physical sickness to escaping reality to depression. All beginning within a year of being baptized seven years ago and ending with my becoming a permanent fader about 2 years ago. The rampant hypocrisy was one reason for my depression, I believe. Also, once the real truth began to dawn on me, I began regretting my decision to be baptized.
It was very cold and snowy I still went to the KH only to find that very few dubs had bothered to go and an elder that was there called off the meeting.
If a JW died at the meeting, they'd put them in the back and carry on with their bull shitting crap!
My Aunt was dying, and in fact had only another week to live when the CO turned up suggesting all sorts of tricks and contraptions to get her to the damne F*$%ing meeting!! She never went as she was heavily dosed up on morphine and in incurable pain!! But because of his stupidity she spent several of her last days crying!
This thread has got me so mad that I'm considering starting a thread on 'Why are Jehovah's Witnesses the most stupid IDIOTS in the world?'
Just thinking back, I can remember so many instances of totally out of order and foolish behaviour that it makes the mind boggle!
I once walked in foot high snow and freezing temperatures to a meeting for about half an hour. Did I mention I was nine months pregnant and struggling with my husband to push a one year old in a buggy! Did I say I WAS A TOTAL brainwashed Jehovah's Witness idiot??!
I felt so ill when I got there that I had to go and sit out in the hall of the house we were in. Afterwards the book study conductor asked my husband if I was 'having a womanly hormonal mood swing'! I may yet still go round and strangle that bugger!
I was a sickly kid, stayed home from meetings as much as possible. As an adult, I resented people who went to the meetings sick, to prove how faithful they were, and at the same time infect everyone else.
Same here, always had throat or ear infections. Since I stopped attending I get one cold a year (if that), KH's are breeding grounds for bacteria (amongst other things ). I remember one Sunday meeting being cancelled on account of the KH burning down (no, I didn't start that fire). I was 7 or 8 years old at the time. It was delibrately lit, don't know if they ever caught the person (or persons) responsible and given them a medal disciplined them.
