by minimus 36 Replies latest jw friends
I had some other reasons for lingering on. I lived close to the worldheadquarters. Visited there many, many time. Shared food and drink with some of the members of the Governing Body, ate with the brothers in their rooms and at the Bethel table.
Hosted many Circuit Overseers at the Pioneer Schools. Had private conversations with a few of the GB's etc. and so, along with the higher ups, I was assured that it will all wok out in due time.
33 years is a long due time, don't you think?
Blueblades
When you're in the thick of things, it's easy to become enmeshed into the whole thing.
And you still have connections fairly high up in the organization, JWoods, based on some of the things you post.
Not really any more - my posts about Bethel and GB events go back to the early 1980s...don't hear much nowadays except this board. Both the Dunlap brothers are gone now, and most all the insiders of that era are also gone.
The rumor was that Dunlap was starting his own religion. id you ever hear that one?
Yes! That's exactly what I've done.
You started your own religion??
Hang on I read your thread title wrong in a hurry! I thought it said: "Did You 'Linger' On As Witness Hoping That It Would All Fall To Pieces?"
Ever since I realised it wasn't the truth I have sort of half expected the Witnesses to implode at some point as others realised the same thing. But it never happened and seems more unlikely the more perspective I get.
Hey min that would be a good question for another thread.
The rumor was that Dunlap was starting his own religion. id you ever hear that one?
Yes, of course. It was all panic JW rumor - neither of the Dunlaps ever did anything like that. They just kept in touch with family and friends as private bible students around Oklahoma City until the end of their lives. BTW - Marion's wife Edith did not ever leave the "truth." He stayed with her and kept a civil marriage until she died a few years before him. Ed's wife Betty also left the witnesses, she is still alive and in a home for the elderly in NE Oklahoma City. I still talk once in a while with a few of the remaining family.
Why didn't they go after Franz' wife, any idea??
There is little evidence in CofC that Cynthia actually ever stopped believing in the Witnesses. Ray is conspicuously silent on the subject.
