by Londo111 13 Replies latest jw experiences
Thank you all.
Magnum: I guess you could say I am a liberal/progressive Christian...and sometimes I wonder if I'm bordering suspiciously close to being akin to a Unitarian Universalist. Nonetheless, I defiantly don’t claim to have all or many of the answers.
Your Grandfather's sad last moments reminds me of something we found out a few days ago.
My wifes JW grandmother died a few years ago in her late 80's. All the JW relatives live a few hours away and it was her non JW Grandchildren who watched out for her in her last years. As it happens, only one person was with her as she died and that was one of my Wife's non JW Cousins. We didn't know this before but this Non JW Cousin happend to mention the other day that poor Grandma was really terrified in the hours before her death and this Cousin couldn't understand why or what the grandmother was trying to explain to her.
We asked her what Grandma was saying and the cousin said " I'm not sure exactly what she was talking about but she was really upset and I didn't know how to help her. She kept saying something about how she wasn't sure if she was one of the other sheep and kept saying again and again, something about the number 144,000 and that she very very frightended to die."
My wife and I looked at eachother and knew exactly what was going on. Grandma claimed to be of the annointed after she was quite elderly but none of the JW family really took it seriously. Apparently she was having second thoughts of guilt about having partook of the emblems. Anyway it was distressing to find this out this kind and good woman died in such an agitated state. If one of the JW relatives had been there, they may have been able to comfort her and assure her that Jehovah would take care of her no matter what calling she had. Wanting to spare our feeilings, these non JW's relatives sheilded this information from the rest of the family who are all JW's. They didn't realize there was any JW significance, they just wanted us all to think Grandma had passed away peacefully.
Pete that is a sad story.
Londo,
Thank you for sharing your personal story.
What you wrote is disturbing on many levels, but primarily because it's true. It really happened. No, obviously "Armageddon" never came, but it did in the mind of your grandfather and he was terrified. To him, it was real.
I have come to really, really hate this religion. It doesn't make people happy, it doesn't make them better people, it doesn't improve relationships, it doesn't even help us get a better grip on the cold harsh reality of what it really means to be human. No, it substitutes the harsh reality of life in this universe with a perverse terror far more frightening that the life we really live.
Let's review: It's a cult!
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