Come on people! Can we inundate this paper with protests? (page 5)

Sad emo

Purps, none of ours which have just been sent will be posted yet - Snowbird wrote/got published on Friday. Ours might go up tomorrow or Tuesday?

snowbird

Actually it was 10-02-07 when I e-mailed mine. Gopher's was printed also. His is about shunning.

Thanks for the

Sylvia

purplesofa

Purps, none of ours which have just been sent will be posted yet - Snowbird wrote/got published on Friday. Ours might go up tomorrow or Tuesday?

yeah, I was just figuring that out.

The last time I replied to something like this, ok I guess it was the Knocking blog at PBS they shut it down.

It will be interesting to see if they post all the replies and if the responses are more numerous than most articles.

purps

snowbird

Why?

Because protest is good for us, John Doe.

Sylvia

AWAKE&WATCHING

They didn't print mine, probably sounded too crazy and bitter.

This is what I wrote:

my letter to the editor

Jehovah's Witnesses are the people that promised me a better life for my family. My daughter was 3 years old and the center of my universe when I began a Bible study with the 2 friendly "sisters" who came to my door. Things would never be the same.
Over the next 10 years I systematically destroyed my relationship with my precious child. Every time she tried to think for herself or make any choices on her own I bombarded her with lectures on "Who did she want to make happy, Jehovah God or Satan?" I did this because that is what I learned at the Kingdom Hall. Black or white, good or evil. No independent thinking was allowed for either one of us. When an elder told me that her Debbie Gibson music was evil I destroyed it. No discussion. When I was told that Smurfs were Satanic, my children were no longer allowed to watch that cartoon and for the same reason could not play with My Little Ponies. These evil, Satanic, toys, cartoons and cassettes had to be destroyed so as to not attract demons. My daughter grew up afraid of Satan's evil world that God would soon destroy, taking away her beloved grandmother and all other relatives and friends that were not Jehovah's Witnesses. Her storybooks had pictures of this destruction and that is what her dreams were made of. She memorized the scriptures to prove it to relatives and in the door-to-door ministry.
Bad association was everywhere, kids at school and in the neighborhood were never allowed in our home. No holidays, no extra-curricular activities and no college plans. My daughter never learned to THINK for herself. I did that to her with the help and guidance of Jehovah's Witnesses where independent thinking is not needed according to them. They believe their leaders to be "God's mouthpiece", his "channel of communication". Without associating with them we will all be destroyed, according to their beliefs. Every one of us, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or atheist, dead by the hand of God. That's who Jehovah's Witnesses are.

Don't laugh if it gets published online - I'm not eloquent with words!

Sad emo - We will be overjoyed if your letter is published, as I'm sure it will. You always have a caring way with words.

I wonder if the residents of Waynesville appreciate how their Jehovah's Witness neighbors view them?

Thank you for pointing it out to them so succinctly, NYCk!

I challenge you to some investigative reporting and interview ten disfellowshipped people and tell me what your conclusion is then.

Very nicely put, Leslie!

Come on people! Can we inundate this paper with protests?

purplesofa

John Doe

Sad emo

snowbird

purplesofa

snowbird

AWAKE&WATCHING

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