SAD news about OOMPA......

by redredrose 630 Replies latest jw friends

  • jeandeau
    jeandeau

    Thank you Oompa (Eric), you helped me exit the JW / WTBTS cult. Your humor and witty precise insights helped me to think for myself to recognize and see clearly the true nature of the organization. It is a carefully crafted mind numbing, intoxicating, debilitating entity that ruins lives and families and deprives us of the human right to embrace neighbours and family fully and have their support when we need it most. Your humor and words of assistance to people such as I who have been suffering greatly, have been immeasurable except that your good heart and kindness have proved greater and far more lasting than the damage done by the "Borg". I no longer scream out repeatedly in mental anguish, pain and anger through a stream of tears till my throat is raw. Love shall overcome. God bless you, your work on earth is done. It is time to rise up on the wings of an eagle and rest in a higher place.

    Thank you again,

    Kurt Littlewood (Jeandeau)

    PS I took the spiritual name of jeandeau from the french "Jean d' eau" which translates "John of water" which reflects my affinity to John the baptist, his recognition of Jesus, and the water that washes away the sins and pain of the past, refreshes, sustains life and is clear, clear, clear.

  • transhuman68
    transhuman68

    This is just a terribly sad thing to have happened.

  • LoisLane looking for Superman
    LoisLane looking for Superman

    To Eric Reeder's family: I am embarassed for you. Your son, husband, father, deserved so much more than he got. Did you know he loved you? Did you know he missed you? Do you care? I wish you had considered how a 2 line obituary in a newspaper comes across. I will tell you because I guess you don't know. It comes across as uncaring. It comes across as though you were embaressed to have known him. It comes across as though you never loved him. If you think your 2 line death notice is/was approperiate under the circumstances of suicide, then I feel sorry for you, because you have lived your life not knowing what love is. Eric knew what love was. With all your faults, he still loved you. Unconditionally. If he was dying of cancer, would you not have wanted to be by his side, holding his hand, even lying next to him in his bed as he lay dying? Or would you have deserted him there too? Do you not wonder what his last thoughts were before he did himself in? He loved you. I am guessing he didn't feel he was loved back.

    PS. I do not mean to offend. I knew Eric, only from this board. For his sake and for his honor, I am saying I am insulted for him. Over half a century of living and.....just 2 short sentences. Pity. Shame.

  • iCeltic
    iCeltic

    Absolutely heart breaking

  • mind blown
    mind blown

    I'm sorry to hear of this horrible, horrible, news of Oompa. I'm also sorry to you posters who lost a dear friend. I feel terrible, I can only imagine how you all must be feeling

    I wish I could have gotten to know Eric better.

  • Chariklo
    Chariklo

    Very, very sad. I didn't know Oompa well, but he helped me especially in the early days. Very sad.

  • thinking_not_believing
    thinking_not_believing

    Just saying im feeling sad about this whole thing... my heart goes out to all who knew him! im new here so dont know much... but that pain he felt i can relate to a little. hoping best wishes upon his soul and to thoe who were close to him... :(

  • Witness My Fury
    Witness My Fury

    It's times like this when I wish there was actually such a thing as an afterlife so you could eternally (and personally) haunt the bastards at Krooklyn Eric. Imagine that, ...Ooompa the poltergeist at bethel HQ making merry hell for them.

    Sadly that aint gonna happen though, and another statistic is chalked up to the WTBTS cult with the ultimate demonstation of another ruined life.

    R.I.P Eric.

  • lisaBObeesa
    lisaBObeesa

    His obituary INFURIATES me.

    (ETA...I don't know. Maybe there is a good reason they went with the free two-line obit. I just know. When I read it, it just seems like just one more terrible indignity... But maybe there is a good reason. who knows. Still....it infuriates me.)

  • cuckoo in the nest
    cuckoo in the nest

    This.

    http://obituaries.news-record.com/obituaries/news-record/obituary.aspx?n=eric-reeder&pid=160175067#fbLoggedOut
    This is an utter disgrace. How could this sum up the weight of a man's worth, it shows as much respect as putting him out with the trash. Like many, I only knew Eric through the medium of his posts here, but grew to like, admire and respect the man behind them. He was a truly noble soul, who sacrificed so much to help those he loved, demanding nothing but to be accepted for who he was. Full of life and energy, compassion and such wit.

    How strange that those most moved by this tragedy are those who, mostly, only knew him through the internet. Just a pattern of coloured dots on a screen. But you will be missed, Eric, those who knew and appreciated you will mourn your passing and keep your memory. There is an Oompa-shaped whole in the world that can never be filled.

    If one good thing is to come out of this sadness, may it be that your efforts to get your loved ones free and safe come to fruition. Pity it cost so much.

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