VINNY- Excellent post by you ! I'm so sorry you and your wife are shunned by your step son. It must kill you not to see your grandchild ! This witness cult is evil and I agree it just makes me want to go and kick some witness a$$ ! As you said I wish there was an outreach center to help these young ones who are feeling pressured to rejoin the witnesses just to get their families back. As Dawg said - it is emotional blackmail that the Watchtower society puts on people !
LAISSEZ FAIRE- Very well put by you. I truly feel for you that your son and daughter in law shun you and your husband. I think you are doing the right thing by being authentic and loving trying to reach out to them. I truly hope that your son will respond some day. His wife sounds like a real piece of work. Can you imagine telling in-laws to " leave your son alone " ? Sounds like she needs to learn manners big time. It's so true that witnesses go out preaching peace and love to strangers in field service - but they don't show that peace and love to their own family ! I too will keep the door open to my daughters as you do to your kids.
SAMMIE LEE- We have met in person and talked before and I do know you have an extremely tough situation you have had to endure. To go 5 years without talking to your son or daughters is insane behavior on not only your children's part- but even more insane that the witness organization controls them to think that way ! I do hope some day your children's situations change as I do my daughters. All we can hope for is that some way, somehow they will get stumbled by unjust treatment by somebody in the organization - or that something else happens which will make them question what they are being taught ! I will call you soon my bro ! Hope you and Mrs. Sammie are doing well friend.
JAM- I'm so sorry you have gone through shunning. Especially from your daughter. I do hope things change. But I hear you - even if the organization changed their policy, there has been so much hurt already that could some of us forget ? Not likely, the damage has been done.
WORLDY ANDRE- Exactly ! Honor thy father and mother ( unless they go against the organization ! ) Ridiculous.
ANDERSON's INFO- Hello Barbara and Joe- Nice to hear from you and your experience. I am truly sorry that you as well have suffered the terrible loss of your son and grandchild in your life . My heart goes out to you too. And to me the bizarre thing about you and your husband's experience is that you are being shunned for doing just, righteous things in being advocates for abused children and coming to the assistance of those in need ! And the proof and evidence is irrefutable in the crimes that you helped expose in the Watchtower society ! And yet it is disrespected because many witnesses, including my daughters, your son, and others are more concerned about appearance to the public eye and saving the organization's face ( which by the way has gotten quite dirty the last few years ) than really acknowledging that true justice screams out to be recognized ! I am glad that you and your husband have pushed on in life and continue to find enjoyment in things like motorcycle riding . Hang in there sis - all we can hope is our children see through the veneer someday !
JEHOVAHSHEEP- I too hope the WTS crumbles and my daughters will run to me too. One can only hope.
RABBIT- I too feel that the JW relatives I have - nieces or nephews who are considered " spiritually " weak treat me with more authentic human kindness too. Unfortunately my daughters are " strongly entrenched " in the cult so I don't hear from them. You make a good point that they are the ones going against showing " natural affection " . They really are murdering their own hearts !
JUST HUMAN- I'm sorry you didn't attend your daughters wedding reception, I didn't get to either. I was not allowed to walk either of my daughters down the aisle at their weddings. It really hurt. And we go through this because a bunch of old farts in New York tell our children to act this way towards us ? Now that my friend, is insane ! Hang in there bro ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper
