Why they keep on shunning inactive JWs?
Inactive, yet shunned!
by TimothyT 41 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Butterflyleia85
Yelp that's pretty typical around here too. My mom is inactive and also given the cold shoulder. Actually it's been that way all of our lives for the most part... even when we were regularly attending hte meetings my mom was single and all the other moms or married couple just seemed to busy or made excuses. Come to find out it was because she didn't go out in service... she didn't seem spiritual enought, because she didn't answer at the hall to often either. It took me along time to figure that out but that's exactly what it was!! I use to be big time into going out in service when I got baptised and made lots of friends, and asked their parents why they don't hang out. They said will we would love to go out in service with her and a few times I got her to come they were friendly to her. Anyways....
Now that I'm disfellowshipped my mom slipped down the not attending path, and well, ha, we are use to it and have made our own friends.
I still don't understand why she feels the need to go back.... but then deep down this is our culture.... or generations... ( I just went through pictures of my mom's parents friends... they had childern and they were friends with my mom!! And my mom's friends are my old friends from the halls so basicly our families are like one huge family!!)
Fear of Change... moving on. If anything I guess disfellowship was a good thing. It forced the change and pushed me to find a new life and new friends. It took two years but it was way way worth it!! I have a beautiful family and my JW side of the family have learned exceptance.
As for my inactive mom, she just is taking longer to move on because of my sister, she took the JW path and is a regular pioneer with her husband.