Re: Emblem Takers Mentally Unstable?
At least those I met were closely linked to unstable minds...whether their own or their family's and close friends minds...
1. Middle-aged Greek Male. Married with 2 children. Got his alleged "calling" when his children were still young. Shortly after he took of the "emblems" for the first time, his wife (who was also a Watchtower Witness), was (reported by neighbours) standing on their porch for hours staring out into the void, contemplating / attempting to jump (they lived several floors up in a "high house"). His favourite vacation-places were big cities, and I thought that was odd, since they do not resemble the paradise nor the heaven that we were preaching about. He died an early death (i.e. before retirement age.)
2. Elderly Norwegian Woman. Widow with grown children. I met her grown daughter in town one day in 1995. She was chocked up with tears and wanted to talk (to any WT Witness I believe). We thus had tea together in a cafe, where she told me that her "anointed" mother had died. Her mother had been a former evangelical Christian, and had confided on her death bed that she had doubts about the Watchtower Organisation, and that she felt as if she had let Jesus down by becoming a Watchtower Witness. I did not know how to comfort her daughter...
3. Middle-aged Norwegian Male. Married with 3 children. He had taken the "emblems" earlier in his marriage when his children were young, believing that he was one of the anointed ones, and then he stopped believing that he was anointed, so he stopped taking the "emblems" a few years later. After this switch, he became the top leading elder of my congregation (one of my congregations anyway. I moved several times...) He and his wife’s son committed suicide and their daughter became highly promiscuous (she was seemingly in the "welcome committee" to all the foreigners that came to town, and even had a kid with her doctor. She was in and out of the Org. no less). The "previous anointed" elder and his wife became heavy on the bottle. They locked themselves inside their home every weekend to drink alcohol (even “worldly” neighbours (not of the watchtower creed) reported this). This particular elders face and nose had a clear red tint and puffiness to support the rumour that he was an alcoholic. Also, it was very well known that the witnesses were partying heavily with alcohol involved in the nineties as they defended it with that “Jesus made water into wine”.
Additionally, the previously “anointed” elder was a very good friend of my elder uncle who I HAD SEEN was heavy on the BOTTLES with my late aunt, (whom he did not even attend the funeral to, although they were still married and she was not excluded from the Watchtower... My uncle married again three months after his wife (my aunt) was buried, and he seemingly continued/s within the Watchtower Org. as a privileged elder as if nothing has happened…
