Yesterday in yet another attempt to get me back to Jehovah's Organization of faithful men, we began to argue. When I asked her how she could possibly trust the men leading this organization who have lied over and over again about everything we believe. She literally scream ed at me and said, "The men Jehvoah uses in this organization to take the lead are standup men who always have the best intentions for the flock."
SO I had to remind her about a certain brother and experience that I think may be useful to some of you brothers here and lurkers.
Picture this, the very early 70's, and a faithful JW with a wife and 2 kids. Living in the deep south who just so happens to be black. Of course it is hard for this family head to find a job that would provide him with enough money to take care of his family. He even worked 16 hour days at 2 jobs that paid under the table so that he could be paid less than minimum wage... He makes it known within the congregation that he was looking for more permanent work but no one had any offerings. This obviously put great strain on this family head. Then one day he gets a call from a brother that says, "Hey if you need work me and another brother have started a "cleaning" business and we are looking for a large number of brothers to be a part of it.
You will have to leave your family for a couple weeks at a time, but we will send your pay back to your family so that things are taken care of at home, and we will provide you all with food and shelter as we travel from place to place."
Sounds awesome right!!!! So he jusmps at the chance, as well as about 20 other brothers in the local congos. THese brothers travel up and down the eastern seaboard cvcleaning supermarkets and movie theaters and warehouses etc.... seems great. Then it is time to get paid, and the story takes a vicious turn. My mother after 2 weeks calls and says that the broothers paid the rent at the some, and utilities as well as brought some food by - but no real "PAY" was given to them. OF course my father wants to know why, they had an excuse as to why this happened, it will be cleared up later. As you can imagine it never gets cleared up. For the next few months these 2 owners one of which is an ELDER the other a MS continue with these practices. THe brothers also realize something weird. The two owners put them in ratty motels 4 to a room while these tweo men have grand Hotel rooms in beautiful hotels a couple miles away... These men also provide food to these men, buy paying for enormous pots of spaghetti for them but for themselves they are eating the finest foods while running around with clients. THey also buy new suits and shoes for themselves as they travel while these men wear the same tattered clothes that they brought with them.
You would think men could only take so much of theis treatment but since they are "BROTHERS" they endure. Well after another month or so, one of the unstable brothers gets a call from his wife and she tells him they have no money or food and they have no idea what they are going to do. Had this been any of these other brothers this would probably have been met with a mere, "Wait on Jehovah"... the problem is that this one particular brother was a little different. You see, this brother was a former GREEN BERET in the Army. He was a little "weird" at times. He had a bad temper ONCE HE GOT PUSHED to the edge. Apparently this call from his wife pushed him to that edge. He found out what hotel they were staying at and walked down there and demanded his money... ALL OF IT right then and there or no one would leave that room. All the while laughing and twitching. All of a sudden the money that was supposedly "tied up" was flowing freely!!! THe man got paid, got to a bus station and left!
The others dealt with it for a while longer and many left. THe problem is the damage had been done to many families and they were encouraged to write it off and that Jehovah would take care of the matter.
So now you are no doubt wondering, "What happened to the brothers who were defrauding the others????" Obviously JEHOVAH made sure that they received some form of judicial reprimand right? right? right? FOr the love of GOD he let PAul kill Annanias and Sappphira for far less. Look at what happened to Nabal? Surely, the upright GOD of the bible made these men atleadt pay these men.
Well no, as a matter of fact no more than just 2 years after all this transpired the MS was an elder, BUT HERE IS THE KICKER!!!! ARE YOU READY??? REALLY I HOPE YOU ARE READY FOR THIS? THIS DRAMATIC CAPITAL LETTTER BUILDUP IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WORTH IT!!! BELIEVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL PROBABLY SHIT YOUR PANTS WITH ANGER!!!!
Seriously its that good!
Anyway the brother who was a married eldered who was a 50% party to this horrible scheme WENT INTO THE CIRCUIT WORK! I Believe at this time he is a District Overseer(I know he is atleast a C.O. still because in the 90's we ran into this jackwagon at a District Convention and he made a smart remark about my father and my super righteous brother acted like he wanted to go apeshit). As I typed this I search for his name on this forum and yup I saw it mentioned moer than a few times...
Anyway after reminder her of this she says, "No doubt Jehovah forgave him so how can I not forgive him. Jehovah must have saw something in him that we could not see." I think she is right, he is the same type of fraudster tha tthe big 8 are. They take advantage of you in the name of Jehovah and dare you to do anything about it.
As you can imagine the phone call ended in her hanging up the phone on me and telling me she will pray for me until they official catch up to me and remove me from the flock.
THANKS MA!!!