by shera 17 Replies latest jw friends
Have some Jw's who you were close to,try to get you back to the meetings?What did they do?
One woman I knew..tried to make me feel guilty with letters...saying it was like I stabbed her in the gut.She also gave me, my pictures back,of myself and my daughter.Yeh thats a winner.Just last year she gave someone I know..pictures I drew back to me, as well ,other pics of my daughter that were hanging around her house.
Yeh sure,thats gonna win me over.
g'day shera,
I been hearing things too ... I heard there was a separate room for children to be children now. I heard the Elders dress up in french maid outfits and serve fresh ground coffee and chocolate cake after the closing prayer. I heard sisters are allowed to bring their whips to meetings. I heard that Kingdom Halls were having steam pumped in and towels were optional. I heard that x rated french movies played there on Saturday night. I heard that nympho sisters stripped off and danced butt naked around a flaming torch ... please go back and check for me would ya? ..
uncle'scardy'bruce
Edited by - unclebruce on 27 October 2002 19:54:47
My soon to be exwife tries everytime she sees me to "witness" to me. Of course, I only see and hear from her when she wants a loan of money or her car repaired, but that doesn't stop her from bragging all about how the witnesses have helped her since our separation and filing for a divorce. This "help" amounts to a total of a gift of $30 from the congregation. Naturally, the near $2,000 I have laid out helping her doesn't matter as much. All I hear is how "Jehovah" has looked out for her by the $30 gift.
I get to hear how her Mom is studying and her oldest daughter is baptized now and all the latest points from meetings and conventions. What is funny, to me, she has no more desire to get back together than I do, but the dub mindset to "save" me is apparent.
Lew W
LOL!!
No I think I'll pass that one up for yah
god how pathetic!!! typical,,,but pathetic...
I had the elders make a shepherding call on me & my buddy (I was 18, just moved away from home, & had stopped going to meetings)on a fri. night @ 10 p.m. Trying to catch us drinking beer of smoking pot, I'm sure. It just so happened that I had to work the next day & was getting ready for bed. When I told them this, & to come back later one elder stuck his foot in the door & said, No, we need to talk to you now. I told them to get off my property, & come back at a more reasonable hour. They never came back to shepherd me. Darn.
Stuck their foot in your door!
They are such power hungry men,who think they have the right to control every detail of JW's lives.Makes me ill..
shera:
Since my husband and I stopped going to meetings last spring, we have had about 3 visits at our home. First visit was from a couple who we have cared for since becoming JW's many years ago. They have helped us out many times through the years. I can honestly say that I still care for these people very much. Second visit was the same couple coming to say how much they "missed us." We know that they really DO miss us. And, we miss them, too. When they were here, they never pushed us or questioned us about returning. Just tried to encourage us to return to the meetings. The third visit was by two sisters who were the daughters of the above mentioned couple. I have nothing but good things to say about these two women. They are kind and considerate and have been there for me through some very bad times. You see, I don't have all bad memories of the JW life that we had led. Tonight, I just saw one of these women in the store. She was very kind and we talked at some length about our kids, etc.... I hold no animosity toward these people. Well, there are some I do have to control myself talking about. But, my argument is not with the JW's themselves. My problem comes from the insane rules and cruel way the organization has with dealing with its members. And how the members are manipulated to believe everything this organization says. I miss my friends. But when I decided to not support this organization of lies, I knew that there would be sacrifices that would have to be made. You cannot live a lie. You cannot perpetuate a lie. Or your life becomes a lie.
Well, now that I have gotten depressed,
I think I will go eat some chocoate........
Mrs. Shakita
Shera I had some mental giant pioneer sisters visit me after I made it clear I wasn't returning to meetings. They gave me such encouragement, lol. One actually told me that she wanted me to return to meetings because she didn't want to have to explain to my dead mother why I wasn't around in paradise.
She was a help to me though, not in ways she imagined.
Thanks for your reply.
I feel the same as you do,in many areas. I do have some problems with the ones of authority.The want to shepard their flock in a loving way.All I see is kick the ones out who may tarnish the flock and keep the "image clean."I feel they are more worried about the image,than the flock.
Hmmm chocolate sounds good
