long time lurker from the UK... making my first post ooh scary...The reason posting now is that I need some advice on talking to my jw family and friends, without their walls coming up! Having read this forum for a good year, you all seem to be expert linguists! I want to be like an Indiana jones type character and slip through the sliding door in to the tomb (my sisters brain!) and sow my seeds of doubt before the door shuts forever and I am labelled 'apostate' ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh oh the shame!
I have stopped going to meetings for about a month now. My Sister has noticed I am happier now and she asked why that was so. Before I knew it I was ranting about the cover ups and the controlling techniques of the borg. She knows how I was never quite the same after my friend got disfellowshipped. I said that I could no longer be an associate with an organisation that persecutes individuals for no longer believing. My sister asked 'what else could the society do to set them apart from the churches?'. I replied that in the case of paedofiles they should report them to the police! She ofcourse doesn't believe paedofiles exist in the borg! 'its all lies' she informed me! The conversation progressed, I explained thinking for myself is a true source of happiness.
Then suddenly she said 'I must stop you there'! to which I responded 'you asked me!'. She said I do not respect her beliefs - she used the analogy of her muslim boss, saying she would never challenge her boss!
I screwed up the conversation, I got too jaded about the 'truth'. I hope that if I get another oppertunity I wont mess it up this time!