Last night my third oldest child wanted to know why we stayed in the Organization so long. Child is a third year College student enjoying all the classes this "Wicked System" has to offer, the insatiable appetite for learning makes him want to argue and debate, I don't have the energy to debate because I don't feel good with all Life has thrown our way.
"The only reason I went to Meetings so long was because Grandma and Grandpa needed somebody to take them to Meetings and COBE Aunt and Uncle and Secretary Aunt and Uncle refused to talk to Grandma for years, otherwise I would have stopped attending the Kingdom Hall because the kids were assholes and I was always the one who had to make "first contact", "I was the one who had to go around and Meet and Greet Newbies while the regular JW Wall-Flowers (Calebs) ignored all the visitors and new persons visiting our Kingdom Hall." The kids, tweens and teenagers are not the most socially competent in the Watchtower Organization, I can attest from my own childhood very few JW Kids did the "Meet and Greet", if kids mimic their parents, it's the parents fault with this problem?
I know my child is angry at the gross lack of love, the hatred all my kids have witnessed by his Aunts and Uncles demonstrate this is not Christian! How doI go about explaining i was truly tricked by the Cult. How would you explain the Cult had us throughly tricked? My child has developed immense hatred towards the religion because nobody gave a dam the day they walked out of the Kingdom Hall and enrolled in College. It's been four years since their last Meet, I am not sure if my child is Agnostic or Christian, even the youngest child can't accept all the teachings Grandma talks about, he told Granda "I am not going to sit in a grave, if I die I will be in the arms of Jesus Christ" and Grandma said "Who told you that?" Child #4 said "The Bible said so!" Grandma pushed again until #4 said "My Dad showed me in the Bible in 1 Thess", where does it say we will be with Jesus on the Earth?"
Grandma is so kind, I think #3's rant and rave is based upon Auntie and Uncle living off Grandma after filing Bankruptcy, destroying their car and ripping us off for $10,000. How can I explain to my child that we were truly tricked, it's up to my child to decide and I fear all the wickedness from his Aunts and Uncles are going to turn em in to a Deist or Agnostic.