So I'm in the process of ditching my JW friends and one of them tells me that I'm starting to sound like an apostate Why?? because I'm going to yet another congregation and she feels that i should stay in one cogo to get established.
first of all I'm about to go into a foreign language congo wherein I speak half the language and want to be fluent in that language, but my real reason is....I don't want friends and family finding out about my fade so they won't start calling me and bugging me. The foreign lingo congo doesn't know english and english doesn't know them plus I moved to a new area, so, I've got it all under control. But in her eyes i'm just bouncing around, which really nothing is wrong with that.
and I was telling her that I can do what I want. I can go to whatever hall I want, when I want and there's nothing wrong with it. Does the bible say that I have to be established in a congo or does it say, just endure to the end? That was my response. Well she didn't like what I was saying. She said I have independant thinking and that's how apostates get started. of course I used that as an excuse to never be her friend again, because how dare she call me such a wretched thing? I asked her to show me in the bible where I have to stay in one congo my whole life. then I told her that I go to different congo's because I keep moving. (of course the truth is that these friends are crazy and I keep running into sexual harassment problems, I've been propositioned by 5 different elders) (no joke) I need to move to better neighborhoods (is what I told her). then she says I'm suppose to stay in one neighborhood, the end is coming so I should'nt be seeking great things for myself. is she ignorant or what?? I was like you are pathetic honey. Just because I don't want to live in the projects for the rest of my life waiting for armageddon doesn't mean i'm a bad materialistic person. She totally couldn't understanding me wanting to live in a better neighborhood. Well I gave her a peice of my mind. I told her that she can sit up in the hood thinking about the big A all she wants with her apathetic hoodlums, but not me sugar plum, I'm moving on up and I don't care what anyone thinks. She is so angry that I wont let them control my mind nor my life. So all she could say was I sound like an apostate.
Well I dissolved our friendship because she said I have independant thinking that apostates have when they start out.. I'm so offended and can't be her friend anymore. Good riddence.
So I'm doing my best to get rid of these people out of my life I should be fully faded by the summer, can't wait.