yeah, when i have gotten the line "they weren't comfortable talking to you about it" i just go back with "well, biblically speaking i need to speak with that person and until i do, i really am not entirely sure what we are talking about so i can't really comment."
Turning the tables on the Elders
by Darth plaugeis 25 Replies latest jw experiences
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troubled mind
This was something that happened to another Sister not me . She was separated fron her non-witness husband and was seen (by the paranoid pioneer stalker in the hall) having dinner with another man in a local restrurant !!! Oh the horrors of it all !!!
The Elders made a big fuss pulled her into the backroom for interrogation ....low and behold it was her visiting fleshly brother not a new boyfriend..... .Oh damn it all to hell ...crushed the soap opera drama for the car groups that week let me tell you .
BUT of course it was suggested to her that she still needed to be careful of giving the wrong appearances to others !!!!!!!!!!! WTF Now you have to worry about being out in public with a family member of the opposite sex ! sheesh
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keyser soze
Priceless. I love it.
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moshe
I have a story to tell, but I don't want to blow my witness protection cover-
-seriously, I have a story that I will take to my deathbed, as I don't want one elder to find out who got even with him. It was nothing I could go to jail for, but it got him in a world of trouble at the KH.
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bsmart
Moshe, we want all the details when that elder dies!!!!
Barbara
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mindmelda
Well, if nothing else, I have the fact that the Society had my very alive brother listed as "deceased" rather than DA, and yet, the elders treated him as DA for years and made him get reinstated by jumping through all sorts of hoops.
His psycho ex was the one who wrote the DA letter and signed his name in the first place. Oh, but they never could find that letter, either.
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cantleave
In my super pious days where I felt I had a responsibility to help "keep the congregation clean", even though at the time not an appointed man, I reported an elders daughter for going out with "worldly" boys. She liked super trendy black boys and seemed to hang around one in particular.
I ended up being counselled for slander and told that if I said anything else to anyone I would be sitting before a JC. So I kept quiet and she continued to hang around with this boy. I left the congregation due to moving house. A year later I saw her at an assembly, still living with her parents, carrying a beautiful chocolate coloured baby boy. I just looked at her dad and gave a wry smile.
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cognizant dissident
Well, after 4 years as an inactive witness, I had never even received a shepherding call. Then my husband of 26 years suddenly asked me for a divorce because of my apostacy. It was weird, because I was totally tolerant of him remaining a JW and even thought it was good for him. Some people need the structure and social life. He had asked me a couple of years ago, not to talk to him about my "unbeliefs" or question him about JW stuff because it was subverting his faith and I totally respected that and never said another word to him about religion.
Well, after he started spreading it around his congo that he was divorcing me for apostacy (absolute spiritual endangerment), I received my first shepherding call. I was very polite to the elders, (whom I knew socially), made them tea, told them honestly why I didn't believe any more, and told them I was not opposed to anyone else practicing as a JW or interested in destroying their faith (which is true). I told them I was shocked that my husband asked me for a divorce as this was not scriptual grounds by any means. They said they would talk to him about it.
Well, about a month later, I found out my husband was having an affair.....drumroll please.... with the daughter of the elder who made the shepherding call on me! Needless to say, I did not hear back from him after that! Although, to be fair, the other elder did call to apologize to me for how I was treated.
OK, top that story if you can!
Cog
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bluecanary
This thread is full of win.
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darth frosty
Too long to re post but read my profile story