Nancy Yuen featured on the July 15, 1979 Watcthower has passed on. (page 3)

After reading the WT article again ( I was a JW in 1979) it became obvious to me this time what it didn't say. Apparently her children and husband did not become JW's, otherwise the WT would have mentioned that for sure. I suspect that she was the only JW in her family. Yes, her jailers were right- she was stubborn. I guess being a JW made her feel important. A sad story, actually.

steve2

My it sounds like some of you are getting into a pickle over a woman who died nearly 30 years ago. Nancy Yeun Brainwashed? No.

Sounds to me like Nancy really believed it was the truth and acted in a way consistent with her faith. Oh, that more JWs would follow her example of practising what they preach.

The only difference between Nancy and me is I no longer believe the Watchtower Society has the truth.

Dagney

She's over there, on the other side, now, probablu saying something like, 'Geese, i could have stayed out of prison and been w my family, and raised my kids properly. Instead, i abandoned them and went to work for a book company. I think i'll do something different w my next life.' I hear that the truth gets much brighter over there.

LOL. Exactly!

Apparently her children and husband did not become JW's, otherwise the WT would have mentioned that for sure. I suspect that she was the only JW in her family.

Right. I remember somebody sponsored her to come here. I thought it was so very strange to choose to not be closer to her kids, at least. But then again...you know what cults do, they brainwash you into thinking that being with them is more important than being a natural mother to children.

doofdaddy

I met her in Hong Kong with Harold King when she was just released in the late seventies early eighties. I was there when they recorded her story for the WT.

She was a sweety but totally immersed in her "reality". I could imagine anyone locked up for twenty years would need a coping mechanism.As earlier noted, she at least was happy with her life and decisions.

The watch tower didn't tell their loyal readers that she was viciously and repeatedly tortured, as she told me. Maybe the white middle class followers may have found that the slicing and burning of a young woman for her "faith" unpalatable

Bonnie_Clyde

Ray Franz commented on this in the "Search" book, pp 209-211. It was 23 years before she was finally re-united with her husband and children. She had not been with them during their formative years. Ray comments, "She clearly believed that loyalty to God required her to go from door to door in spite of a law that prohibited--not preaching--but preaching by that method." It was the Watchtower who required her to go from door to door-- as if her faith couldn't have been expressed in another way.

looking_glass

A friend of mine sent me her actual obit notice when she died. It was a huge deal and tons of JWs turned out. I think it was your true christian revival mtg kind of thing. Everyone got all pumped up. You know the whole go team, go mentality.

poppers

"Sounds to me like Nancy really believed it was the truth and acted in a way consistent with her faith."

That may be true but that doesn't mean she wasn't brainwashed.

AnnOMaly

Apparently her children and husband did not become JW's, otherwise the WT would have mentioned that for sure. I suspect that she was the only JW in her family.
Right. I remember somebody sponsored her to come here. I thought it was so very strange to choose to not be closer to her kids, at least. But then again...you know what cults do, they brainwash you into thinking that being with them is more important than being a natural mother to children.

Now I DIDN'T know that! I assumed her husband and children (or some of them at least) would have come along in the twoof. Verrrry interesting.

Satanus

She was likely an institutional person, a person who naturally functions well in an institutional setting. Both the wt org and prison are forms of institutions. She must have liked that structure better than the more personal family setting.

S

Nancy Yuen featured on the July 15, 1979 Watcthower has passed on.

purplesofa

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