by ashitaka 61 Replies latest jw friends
Greed, or abuse.
Guarantee you, if a man hit his kids for every little thing, he would be looked upon more favorably than if he was caught smoking. He could beat his kids to a pulp, and dragging on a fag would get the elders more in a tizzy.
My father beat us for years, but the elders did nothing, not even repremanded him. They repremanded us for 'egging him on' which is a load of horseshit.
Yet, people are disfellowshipped for making love-I just don't get it.
ashi
Rem,
Quote: “My first and last public talk was the "You Will Reap What You Sow" outline and I went into how we should not be like the Judiazers who made so many rules. I went into beards, blood trasfusions, voting. I had a couple meetings with the elders afterward because my talk upset a few of them - they thought it sounded apostate."
That talk got me in trouble for over 15 years. Like you I got away with it by backing up my comments with WT Quotes. I got to where I would hold the WT up during the talk and read from it, anticipating a hassle.
Many guys who gave that talk didn’t even understand the Judaizer part. My outline evolved to where I spent most of the 45 minutes on the “over scrupulous” versus freedom in Christ.
Mine was a long slow process of leaving. Getting on the internet and discovering people there who I could relate to more than the brothers at the hall was probably the breaker.
Jst2laws
