Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses (page 2)

no more kool aid

Thank you. This letter makes me feel so grateful that I got out with my husband and children.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

Thanks for sharing. I think it should be read at next year's District Convention.

B the X

aquagirl

That letter is so real,that I can taste it...Thanks....

BizzyBee

I've read this letter before - several times -

and every time I feel that this should be sent to every congregation in the world, handed out to JW's and plastered on all the cars parked at KHs.

Thank-you
I read this before and was looking for it, as it sums up all that I feel about how I, and others were betrayed.
The Elders told my 2 older sons that my husband and I are Apostates. Thank goodness that it didn't work. The younger son now misses loads of meetings and now has a 'worldly' girlfriend, and my eldest has not answered up at the meetings for nearly a year, and has also started missing meetings and going out with old school friends( non witnesses) The eldest, totally understands my decision to leave , but is trying to hold on to his witness friends. I told him recently that he is trapped.. He agreed with a shrug. We are relieved that the Watch Tower has not got a complete hold on them, and are hopeful for the future.

xxx SC

Confession

I too read this during the first couple of weeks of my awakening in September of 2004. The effect it had on me then was profound, and I feel the same thing as I read it now. It speaks not about the whats and whys. It speaks about the power of archetypes. The archetype the Watchtower adherents have assumed makes it very difficult for many to reject. For people who don't dig deep--into the facts as well as their own hearts--how can any amount of logic or reason compete with an organization represented by she who is 'soft spoken, gentle, and who carries a Bible tucked neatly under her arm'? And, oh, the power wielded and the pain inflicted by such ones.

It takes me back to that Michigan autumn when I was cut off from my entire family and community of friends, when I knew something was wrong but couldn't quite put my finger on it. When I would sit in my apartment with only my cat, Kimba, listening to Diana Krall, sipping Jose Cuervo and conducting my research. When I was struck by the paralyzing realization that all was not as it seemed.

orangefatcat

a very powerful letter. I agree every person wanting to become a JW and JW's should read this letter. They might just smell the coffee.

And head for the hills.

Sometimes I wish I had had the courage to leave a long time ago. But I suppose as often as I thought of it I dismissed it because of fear and quilt and my father would have killed me.

Orangefatcat.

Open Letter to Jehovah's Witnesses