Anyone who is following my threads knows that I post most everything about my
wife's loyalty to the WTS and the fade I am doing. I don't post much about my mother.
If you did catch it, I told her several months ago that I had stepped aside as an elder.
She had asked if it was a personal problem, then was it a problem with the BOE.
I told her that it was a problem with the organization itself. I directly told her that it
was about the clergy privilege of the elders who committed sins, then were able to
remain as elders keeping their secret, and it was also about not being able to promote
doctrine from the Governing Body without really knowing anything about the Body and
the men.
Anyway, she let it go in one ear and out the other. A couple months later, she asked
something about the District Convention. She said that it was difficult to sit through the
3 days and asked how I did it. I told her that I went out-of-town with the wife, but didn't
go in to the meeting. (This is the thread: http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/138549/1.ashx)
Mom just found a way to pretend everything is fine with me and Jehovah's Witnesses.
So now everything is fine with Mom. She totally acts as if I am a good Witness. She
asked me for help with the WT CD-ROM recently for her upcoming talk. She said friends
from her hall visited mine and met my wife, but didn't see me. I said I wasn't there and
I was ready to say more, but she changed the topic.
Here I am now, wanting to just say things to her. Something like, "Mom, I no longer go to
the meetings. I have decided to stop letting the meetings influence my thinking. I think for
myself and enjoy the clarity." I am looking for the best way to say that or opinions on how
much to say. I feel that Mom will need to think I am a witness in good standing. I don't
know that she would shun me if I went further, my instinct says NO, but I just am not sure
enough.
If she did shun me, I could stay in contact with her husband (UBM). I have resisted talking
to him because he would believe WTS is a mind-control cult and try to forcibly take her out
of there. That would make her believe that Satan is putting pressure on her. If I am shunned,
I might give it a try.
So, input please. What should I say? How far should I go? (It's Sunday night. I will BTTT tomorrow
if necessary.)