#*&)^%*!!!!!! I'm in the mood to kill.

by LoneWolf 24 Replies latest jw friends

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  LoneWolf

  And if you read some snarls in between those words, you don't know the half of it.

  My wife asked me to go to the Memorial last night, and I decided to go if for no other reason than to keep tabs on what's going on. Those who know my story know that my situation is unusual.

  Just before we left she came to me privately and said that she had something to tell me before I heard it from anyone else. She knows exactly how I feel about the Society, and was scared as to my reaction, and I don't blame her: there's hell to pay.

  Jeff Strebe committed suicide the night before. A third generation JW, he's a young father of 5 sons, most of which are very close friends of my son Zeke. They are constantly coming over here to play games and stay over night, and he goes there for the same purpose. It's almost like the boys have two homes. We live about a mile apart.

  Jeff's wife is a little petite sweetheart of a girl who is as sincere and caring as the day is long.

  They were trying to support the family with the typical menial jobs that long time JW's many times use. One was a newspaper route. They had had problems down through the years, primarily financial, though about two years ago he was DF'ed - I know not why, though they divorced somewhere in that time period - and shortly afterward she was too.

  In a few months they got back together and remarried. She was reinstated not too long ago, and he was working towards it. The family seemed to be pulling together again.

  He died on Wednesday, the 27th. He accidentally wrecked his car, but was unhurt himself. I guess he sideswiped a guardrail and went in the ditch - nothing serious. Totally distraut, he started walking home.

  Someone else had called the police and they came. Seeing him walking home, they wanted to talk to him to get the details and make sure he was okay. He saw them and ran into the lake, drowning himself.

  And now the police are distraut. "Why did he run from us?" All they wanted to do was help. It was on the news tonight, and even the announcers were asking Why? Why?

  They're going to find out.

  Thank God he didn't take the rest of the family with him.

  LoneWolf
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  gotcha

  ...???...life!
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  LoneWolf

  I forgot to add ---

  They showed up for Memorial last night. They all sat in the library together (there are windows so that they can see the speaker) looking like zombies. They left shortly after the emblems were passed.

  Afterward, everybody was as cheerful and uneffected as could be.

  LoneWolf
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  Scully

  oh my god, Lone Wolf!!

  What a horrible thing for that family to go through.

  Please let us know if you find out anything more.

  Love, Scully
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  COMF

  I'm sorry to hear of this, Wolf. My heart goes out to his family.

  Why would a man with financial and marital woes have a one-car accident and then run from the cops, accidentally killing himself? It's a give-away, man. He was drunk. That's why he had the wreck. He was afraid of getting a DWI--very expensive and a reputation-ruiner, as well guaranteeing his insurance wouldn't pay for the car. That's not to mention the rammifications in the congregation.

  COMF
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  SYN

  ((((LONEWOLF))))

  That's horrid.

  
  [SYN], UADA - Unseen Apostate Directorate of Africa - For Great Justice!
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  orangefatcat

  How terribly devastating. What on earth is happening to people in the organization? Lone Wolf sometimes there is no answers as to why people do what they do. It must be truly horrible for yet another family. I cannot believe how heartless the congregation was after the family left the kingdom hall.
  Where on earth are their scrupples. This dear family needs all the support they can get. Please wish the family my condolences.
  And here is a *hug* for you and your family.
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  rekless

  Why should their joyious??? attitude be shock? While my wife was passing away a ghroup of JW was standing out in the hall laughing, telling jokes and having a good time. When I went out to ask them to please hold it down, you know what one elder said, " Dan do you beleive that the Society is God's Organization, and that the GB is being used as Jehovah's Channel?
  I told them I had no answer at the time Pat was dying,and they wasn't there to comfort me or her just to get me disfellowshipped.

  Compassion,nah, they don't know what that word means, except a chance to push their religion.

  Hell is truth seen too late. H.G.Adams
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  Scully

  rekless:

  what those JWs did is appalling and disgusting, there are no other words for it.

  You did the right thing. If I had been your wife's nurse, I would have had them escorted out by hospital security. But then again, I can be a real b!tch about stuff like this.

  Love, Scully
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  bigboi

  This was one of the things that most bothered me about being a witness. The treatment disfellowshipped ppl received even after they were dead. The bible says that after a man dies he has paid the price for his sins. So why the shoddy treatment of disfellowhipped ppl even after the deaths? Well, disfellowshipping as practiced by the WTS is simply a tool of intimidation to keep all bonded together in chains of conformity. It doesn't resemble the type advocated by Paul in any way.

  ONE....

  bigboi