by minimus 56 Replies latest watchtower scandals
After a lengthy discussion about some major doctrine I was put aside, and all my arguments with me, with the statement "Well, pray, cause you have not seen the light yet" YUK!
And another one would be "Sister, yo are too proud, you need to learn to be humble and obedient" Double YUK!
After being divorced from my first (non-jw) husband, I married again - the courtship lasted a few months, and even on the day we got married, I knew I'd just made one HUGE error in judgment. He was a classic abuser. After only two months I had to keep an overnight case in my car so I'd have something to wear when I had to bolt out of the house in the middle of the night.
After approaching the elders about how to get out of this disasterous mistake, one of them quoted 1st Peter 2:19-20: "For if someone, because of conscience towards God, bears up under grievous things and suffers unjustly, this is an agreeable thing. For what merit is there in it if, when you are sinning and being slapped, you endure it? But if, when you are doing good and you suffer, you endure it, this is an agreeable thing with God."
I bought this distorted reasoning for a couple of days, and then came to my senses...
I was cracking up at all of these postings. I found them SO hilarious! But when you think about how great these comments have affected peoples lives, and how those making the comments were dead serious, it's actually pretty sad.
My father was an elder my entire life growing up (and still is). I have heard hundreds of things that I don't agree with, not only from him, but others. I'd need to literally write a book (and perhaps someday I will) to tell you all the outrageous things overheard/said to me. However, I will share a few of them here that have stuck in my mind over the years....
I will never forget the comments made by the presiding overseer of a congregation my wife had attended when we first got married. She was getting DF'ed (and probably deserved it), but when I disagreed with the way he was handling the disfellowshipping and spoke my mind, I asked to speak to him privately. After the meeting, her and I along with the P.O. and his trusty sidekick went into the library. I won't go into detail about why I disagreed with them, but it was clear from someone unbaptized that they were wrong. When I brought up WHERE they were wrong, I got up and began to reach for the organization book from the shelf. He immediately stopped me and said...
"That won't be necessary. We do things OUR way, not the society's way."
This is just one of many things said to me I found outrageous. I especially like how the org. gossips more than any other group on the planet. I'm sure we can all think of many, many rumours or outrageous things said to us about other people. So much for "love thy neighbor"!
Ooops, caught his one a little late, but the all time stupidest thing:
"Don't worry about your hair frizzing in the rain, we will all be white with straight blonde hair in the new system". Good thing they didn't allow us to own guns!!
That Jw's are not a cult.
: What's the most outrageous thing that you were personally told ,while in the organization???
"Hi. We're the elders and we're here to help you."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Farkel
i started suffering panic attacks, and the couple who studied with us, an elder and his wife, told me that i was allowing the demons in because of all the unicorn pictures I had. i got rid of the pictures, but the attacks didn't stop until i worked thru the problems in my life.
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i started suffering panic attacks, and the couple who studied with us, an elder and his wife, told me that i was allowing the demons in because of all the unicorn pictures I had. i got rid of the pictures, but the attacks didn't stop until i worked thru the problems in my life.
This is so bloody typical, what is it with JW's and demons? Once, my sis could'nt find her keys for ages, and eventually found them in the study, behind the desk. She got really worried and asked me to check the things in my room and make sure I do not have anything DEMONIC in there, because "I really did'nt leave them there, it's really weird". She thought the demons had moved them.
...................................... fair enough, then.
The most outrageous thing I ever heard a JW say is this half wit elder who dragged my dad into the backroom and showed him a book that I had left at his house........................... an essay on apes and evolution. He told my dad this was PRICISELY why he considered me to be bad association for his daughter. Even my dad thought he went a bit haywire on that on that one!
Regarding 'can't find her keys'....
This brings to mind a young teenage man I once knew who got the biggest kick out of breaking into people's houses, not to steal anything, but just to 'rearrange things'.
REALLY. He would just sneak in and move the furniture around, or the things in the refrigerator, or WHATEVER.
Can you imagine what this would do to a JW???
At the time I heard this, I thought it was HILARIOUS (tho strange...).
Must be the JW background. (Mine, not his - I don't know what his excuse was).
Please keep this post going....I'm enjoying it immensely.
lol Farkel.
