I’ve just finished talking on the phone with my Mum. She’s a devout JW who is highly thought of by most other dubs, she’s on first name terms with the head Boyz ‘n Bethel too. For a lady dub she’s pretty high profile, has never, ever been counselled about anything in her entire life and would be astonished if anyone should ever attempt to do so. She is a Queen Dub, matriarchal and serene, she is pampered and respected by all her acquaintances. I am the only person in the whole wide world who occasionally has the temerity to bring her down to Earth.
Well, she has been very naughty indeed. She has been to a church service! I kid you not, her young dub friend recently lost her mother, and was terrified of attending the clergy led funeral service. So she asked my Mum what she should do. Mum leapt to the rescue and took said young lady dub along to the church service so as to give her some moral support.
When Mum told me about this just an hour ago, I pointed out to her that attending a church service was “an absolute no-no”, surely she realised that she shouldn’t have attended?
She replied that her attendance at the church service didn’t matter because she didn’t join in the singing of the hymns!
Now I have a feeling that she is well in line for an elder’s visit pretty soon. She has been doing a lot of what is OK in her eyes lately. She visits me every year for several days whilst accompanied by my DF’d kid brother – 2 DF’d sons for company – and the elders know this and have turned a blind eye to it.
Somehow, I think that she is going to be pulled up pretty hard for the things that she chooses to do, I really don’t think she has moved on with JW teachings for around 25 years or so. I think she sort of froze all new light out after the ‘75 fiasco, so she’s probably chosen to remain unaware of the WT’s increasingly obtrusive stance into people’s personal lives.
I think that when she gets her reprimands she will take it very hard indeed. Who knows, just maybe it will be enough for her to walk away in disgust from this bunch of yahoos who think that they are chosen by God.
And wouldn’t that be grand?
Englishman.