Wild Turkey ran into an elder he knows in business and the brother didnt know about us D/A ourselves. Which is shocking to me, since there is so much gossip always going on, now I am sure everyone who doesnt know soon will.
Anyway, this brother has been an elder for many years, and he told my husband that he was removed because his son, who is a senior in high school was publicly reproved. I think this is very sad , only because of more of their polices and backward ways of thinking. This elder had worked hard to be where he was, and because his almost grown son makes a mistake, the kid was reproved so he must still be trying to do right to a degree or he would have been d/f , right? Why are children of elders, responsible for their fathers having to step down? That is a heavy burden to put on a kid. I know they say if the father was doing all he was SUPPOSED to be doing as head of the house his kid wouldnt be in trouble. We all know that is bullcrap. A parent can not force his child , almost a man here , to do exactly what he says, no matter how good the father tried. I think it is just another way to embrass and humiliate them. And it scares others into not telling if they get in trouble. I mean if I got in trouble , and I did, I would have never told my elder dad, for that very fear. He would have killed me for one thing, (beat me senseless) and I would be reminded everyday of what a disgrace I was, how I let him down, and how he lost the precious privledge he had, all because of a mistake I made.
This is just not right , this is another way they are destroying families and by publically humiliating this boy is so wrong to me.
The WT is a painful place to be. I just heard that a sister I have known since I was a little girl, tried to kill herself last night. She is now ok and with her daughter, for now. She was one who could never do enough for Jehovah, what a burden she must have been feeling.
It is things like this that I want to stand up and say how wrong they are for their silly rules and regulations. They may think they are controlling the flock, but they are killing them. Killing them in spirit and sometimes they totally break a persons spirit and then worse happens.
I am just angry that WT has power and control they do over people who are trying to serve God. I know not all JW's are evil and trying to get power in the congregation, the worst victims are the children and the lowly publisher. This is the main reason I hope the WT loses their so called "God Given Authority".