by candidlynuts 25 Replies latest jw friends
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As time goes on, few youngsters stay in the WT Cult!
Look at it this way! You get to miss all the teenage tantrums and may well get the best years of your children's lives with a tinge of regret on their part for how they treated you. We can but hope, but the walls of the Tower are definitely beginning to show cracks! Hang on in there, Candidly!
Candy,
I know of many people who lost their mom due to the Kingdumb hall, and by lost meaning they are no longer accepted by their own families because they are not JW's, I know you can use your Mommy powers here and fill a void where I am sure you are much needed.
Much Love
Your son
Andre
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Middlechild said,
there was a talk at my sister's hall where they were told to write down their top 5 friends. then they were to see what those friends could do for them spiritually. well my sister said that she just couldn't see how i could fit into her friends' list because i couldn't do anything to upbuild her spiritually.
What a wonderful way to "clean out" the deadwood. If they can't do things for you, who needs em? I think five is really too many. Can that many really be next to perfect in always being "up" and "spiritual" in every way? We can't count ones who have bad days and need our help, because they wouldn't be "doing things for us spiritually."
This is the way the WTS is going. No one is good enough. You must examine everyone you know. The ones with faults cannot be associated with. The ones who miss meetings on occasion-no! The ones who are not taking the lead in the ministry-not spiritual enough! The ones who do not have their WT underlined-horrors! Do they in fact have a cleaning job or would they be (gasp) materialistic? Is every child sitting perfectly still at every meeting taking notes even though they are only six months old?
Even your sisters. Perhaps you could advise them to evaluate each other. It seems that on occasion they are less than the "ideal" witness. I suggest that each one of them consider the other "not spiritual" enough.
I am sure that they will have less friends now because if they ever need help from anyone in the KHall, they will unfortunately show themselves as ones who are not at the ready to "upbuild spiritually," and risk losing them.
Middlechild -- I can't believe they said this. (Or maybe I can, seeing the crap the organization spews to make you less human.)
There was a talk at my sister's hall where they were told to write down their top 5 friends. then they were to see what those friends could do for them spiritually.
It should be the other way around - to paraphrase President Kennedy's inauguration speech:
"Ask not what you friends can do for you, ask what you can do for your friends." Now THAT would be a decent message.
how many witness kids HAVE 5 friends?
Even your sisters. Perhaps you could advise them to evaluate each other. It seems that on occasion they are less than the "ideal" witness. I suggest that each one of them consider the other "not spiritual" enough.
I am sure that they will have less friends now because if they ever need help from anyone in the KHall, they will unfortunately show themselves as ones who are not at the ready to "upbuild spiritually," and risk losing them.
Quandry, I agree. I told them, during the interrogation lunch I had to endure in order for them to decide my fate, that there were many times that I could have decided that they were not good association for me but instead I chose to support them as my sibling and not judge them. (Plus the mate swapping stories were really intriguing! :))
Gopher, That's more like it. Not what can u do for me?
CN, I'm sure some of those 5 are wordly so here's how they're making sure u get rid of them...
they belong to an organization that teaches it's OK not to love. Not only is it OK to simply cut people out of your life forever, just because they don't believe what you believe, but also it's OK to gloat over their expectation that they will see 99% of the earth's population murdered by this loving god, just so they can inherit the earth.
yuk and too think that was once me. it is such an unloving org, they only teach conditional love, we will be ok to you if you do things for us but if you are feeling depressed, go away.
i understand and agree with u on all points. both of my fleshly sisters (granted, they are not my children) have stopped associating with me because of the recent info. they've been fed on associating with inactive ones.
So the FDS has tightened things as regards the inactive JWs they didn't go all the way and declare them DAed but they did in effect DA them by instructing the dubs not to associate with them because supposedly they have nothing to offer spiritually speaking.
And it is amazing how family members are totally legalistic and enforce that rigidly despite blood ties.
