by highdose 5 Replies latest jw friends
I made the mistake of objecting to being slandered in the congo and the resulting shunning it got me, even though i had done nothing wrong at all. but all i got in return was "loving counsel... puke" in the form of a strict telling off... it was my first real step out of there, you might say the scales started to fall from my eyes at that point.
I'd very much like to know if i'm alone in experiancing this kind of treatment or not? i suspect not...?
When the elders couldn't bully me into remaining in a dangerously abusive marriage or agreeing to stalk the guy who was threatening to kill me in order to prove adultery on his part, I offered to da myself. The elders said, "Don't bother, we'll df you instead."
HIGHDOSE- Believe me friend, you're not alone. Same thing happened to me 6 years ago. Like Jamiebowers experience the elders tried to get me to stay with an abusive non-witness drug abusing wife who would be dangerous for my teenage JW daughters to be around. Then they tried to turn it into a JC meeting to off me . My ex-wife from years before turned my JW daughters against me saying I was rebellious for not listening to the stupid counsel from the elders. I walked out of the kingdom hall cold turkey- never going back. So, yes, it happens a lot. When a person suffers injustice the blinders fall off definitely
I was forced into sex by my fiance shortly before our wedding. He wouldn't allow me to tell the elders, so I kept silent for many years, until he left me - then I told the elders. Even though I was forced into having sex, I was still reproved. I didn't like that at all, as it wasn't my fault, I didn't ask for it, so why should I be punished? My parents told me to 'take it on the chin', even though they too were very angry that I was being punished for something I didn't ask for.
There are more then one side to a story, but basically I told them off for following me to work, and I could not understand how you were able to serve God if they think they can tell some one when where and how to preach. Make a person feel they are srving God because they have to not because you want to out of love for your God.
Not baptized was the punishment
Thank God for that...
Mathew 3: 11 I, for my part, baptize YOU with water because of YOUR repentance; but the one coming after me is stronger than I am, whose sandals I am not fit to take off. That one will baptize YOU people with holy spirit and with fire.
When a person suffers injustice the blinders fall off definitelly.
AMEN...I 2nd that because it wasn't until the unjust treatment of me AFTER coming forward over the abuse I tolerated from my ex fiance - that it was like I suddenly WOKE UP! THings were much clearer and made more sense to me after that.
