Did YOU Really Care about "The Friends"? (page 2)

skeptic1914

Overall, I cared for most everyone, and took my responsibilities as an elder seriously.

I wish I had taken my responsibilities as a human being with more seriousness.

Ditto that...Skeptic1914

halcyon

When I was younger I cared about everyone. I always wondered why everyone didn't care about me.

It's still a problem, in that I care about almost everyone I meet, and wonder why they don't care about me. It's been a tough road to learn how to be cynical.

jaguarbass

If any body cares for anybody else it is because acting a certain way towards certain people makes them

feel good.

They have been conditioned or brainwashed that if they care for the friends they are doing good.

In harmony with the scripture that quotes Jesus saying whoever does this to the least of my

followers does this to me.

Little mind games, tricks like that are part of the glue, fabric, that makes religion work.

Thats life.

But on the other hand an individual may have worse problems if he was all wraped up in a little ball,

himself, and didnt interact or act like he cared for others.

It's to bad that religion is so destructive.

It would be great if some good people wrote a bible for secular humanism.

The problem is whenever you use guilt to mold behavior, God gets in the details.

I used to say the devil gets in the details but now I see it is God.

But, I have also come to see the Devil is the good guy in the bible.

Neither the devil or God is going to save you. You have to save yourself, from yourself.

troubled mind

I did .....and I too felt like it was one-sided. Except some of the older ones that no one else bothered to talk with ,they were appreciative and happy to see me.

I always made an effort at the meetings to talk with the ones everyone else ignored ,you know the faithful couple that made the meetings but had low hours in service and had no family at the hall . Or the single sister with eight kids living off a rural paper route . The mentally challenged sister that sometimes threw shoes at people . The older sister with the beginings of Alzhiemers or the older widow that smelled a bit funny .

These were the people I cared about ...I figured the pioneers and Elders wives hob-knobbed amongst themselves enough they didn't need my added attention .

Mrs. Fiorini

I did care about the people I knew as a JW. Unfortunately, I also bought the WT b_11$#!t about being loyal to the org first, even if it hurt those same people I cared about. I will never make that mistake again!!

orangefatcat

When ever I was at this families home which was often they spread a feast and treated me with such kindness. This is when I pioneered in Quebec. I have to say this that friends in Quebec are kinder then witnesses in Ontario.

Mind you my two best friends are here in Ontario and my other friends are all over the world, and I have lasting friendships with those friends as well. We often speak on the telephone or on the internet. God has been good to me since leaving the WTS and their insane ways in 99. That terrible burden ended in 1999 and I have felt so much happiness and relief from the pressures of having when I was a witness. It is sad that I left behind many dear friends but some of those friends are finding out for themselve that the Society is not all it is cracked up to be.

I have so many new friends that I have made here and all the friends I have in my parish family. I have tons of friends in the US and Australia and they are not even or have been JWs I think my friends are so cool and I love and respect them all. Many of you are my dear friends here in JWN as well.

I couldn't imagine life without friends, it is people who make the world go around.

So even though I lost my family I haven't lost any friends in fact my friends are my family so please count yourself as a special person in my life because with out your friendship I would probablely would have been still struggling with my life.

So if a person asks me do I really care about the friends, well yes I do. I lost as many good friends in the Society but I often hope that someday they see the light bulb goes on and they see that they are in a cult and will flee. I believe in miracles.

Orangefatcat.

I quit!

I did care about a lot of the people in the first congregation I went to. There were a lot good people there. There are some nice witness at the congregation my wife goes to. I went there for a short period just before I jumped ship. They even smile and say hello to me when they see me. That may be part of the reason why she has stayed with it for so long.

truthsetsonefree

As an elder and "shepherd" I know I did. Still do in fact. And I still communicate with three who are inactive or df'd. Hopefully more will communicate in the future though I won't get my hopes up.

JimmyPage

I like certain people and others I don't. But I still care for many of them. I feel sorry for them because they don't know it's a cult. Most of us were blind at one time, too.

easyreader1970

I find it difficult to care about any of the people in the congregation. Not because they aren't deserving of it, but because I know that any friendship they offer is conditional and I can't really be down with that. If my car breaks down on the side of the road, now I can call brother so-and-so and he'll come pick me up. But if I get caught with a picture of a naked chick or something, then suddenly he cannot be my friend anymore. It's retarded and sad.

The exception to this is if I am in one of those nifty congregations where all of the brothers are dirty and they have a don't ask, don't tell policy. I've been in one of those before. Most hypocritical place on the face on the earth.

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