When LOVE surpasses Religion

Larry

Hi folks :) My Egypt trip was great, here's a link to some of the pictures: http://nojusticenopeace.homestead.com/Egypt1.html

But the purpose of this posting is to express my sentiments about the death of my JW Aunt over the weekend. As many of you know I have very strained relationship with my Dub family - Being around them is the last thing I want to do. But my Aunt was dying of cancer - its spread throughout her body.

By way of background, my Aunt was like a mother to me. My real mother raised seven children so she didnt have the free time to spend with me like my aunt. My aunt lived with us and took me everywhere, while at the same time, she taught me many things.

I remember when she was worldy, smoking her cigarettes and hanging out. In fact, I recall her sneaking a smoke or two after she was baptized. I was young at the time, so I really didnt know how to judge like a regular Dub. All I knew or was concern about was her and where we were going to next.

My aunt touched everybody she came in contact with. My theory is that people could see the genuineness in her heart. You know the type, just good hearted people - It doesnt matter what veneer, mask or religious facade they display, you could see right through it and ascertain the sincerely and goodness of the person.

Back to the story - She was placed in Hospice care, and while she was there in pretty good shape, she constantly requested to see me. I finally said, OK Ill drive my family to Atlanta during the Thanksgiving holiday. However, last Wednesday I got a call that she took a turn for the worst and the Hospice doctor give her 24 - 48 hours to live. I caught a flight that night and saw her. When I walk into her room all my Dub family was there - I said Hi, and went right to my Aunt. I just blocked everybody out while holding her hand and speaking with her. She was in and out of consciousness but, she was glad to see me. After speaking with her my Dub family gave me the standard greetings they give to Disassociated people, whom they are forced to speak with under emergency situations. That was difficult to take because when I was a Dub the greetings were much different and I felt like I was part of the family, instead I felt like an outsider. It could have been much worst, but we both focused on the main reason we were there - My Aunt.

I was able to stay the night with my Aunt, and to said what was in my heart before she died. The main reason I went to see my Aunt was because I know that no matter what the BORG dictates to it members, she always loved me. The connection and bond we had between us was real and special. Other members of my Dub family may say they love me, but I dont feel it - I never have. Im not saying they dont, but I never felt it. I felt it with my Aunt - when she said it, I believed her.

According to todays standard my Aunt was young - 65. Incidentally, we have the same birthday - Jan. 3.

The love we had for each other was stronger than religion - Much Love Aunt Freda :)

~ Love Larry

Dia

God bless you both.

You are a beautiful testimony to what really matters.

nilfun

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((((Larry))))

It sounds like your Aunt's love did indeed surpass her religion.

I'm so sorry for your loss...please accept my condolences....

p.s. your pics from your Egypt trip are great...the Luxor ones are especially beautiful.....

Sentinel

Larry,

I've very sorry that you lost your beloved Aunt; she was not that old either. By the time one reaches that age, they should be mature enough to understand how to use their knowledge and wisdom and show real love it. It sounds like she was such a person. I'm glad you spent some time with her before she passed away. The way you expressed yourself here, I can tell that she meant a great deal to you, and that she loved you too. As you say, despite the rigid rules of the JW's.

You were able to do what you needed to do, not only for yourself, but for her. I commend you for your strength is going to her, and facing those "judging faces, and qualified language" of those others present. I commend her for allowing love to surpass religious dogma.

I hope those present, who witnessed this exchange between the two of you learned something. However, even though they might have , they cannot show it, as long as they remain stuck in that mindset.

(((((((((Larry)))))))))

Francois

Sin carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. Sin cannot exist side-by-side in a Love-dominated universe, the creation of a God of Love.

The God of the Universe of Universes, the Universal Father is a God of Love, in fact God IS Love. Any act of love is an act of worship.

Acts that are designed to withhold Love, conversely, is an act of sin. In furthering and even tightening their unspeakable disfellowshipping policy, the WTBTS continues to sin. And in doing so, it encourages - in fact it DEMANDS that its followers sin right along with them.

This Great Sin of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society will not be allowed to go on indefinitely. As noted, sin carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. We've seen this in action many times. And now, as the Great House of Cards that is the WTBTS quivers on the brink of its self-destruction, we can all be happy that this Great Sin, this denial of the nature and character of God living in man, this insistence on withholding of Love by even close family members, draws close to an end.

How long will it be before we can all cheer the final collapse of the WTBTS? I don't know. But I do know that all the elements of that which has gotten them in this predicament, every one of them, stems from a manifest lack of love, of basic human compassion and altruism. Just because they mouth out the words "Jehovah's loving arrangement" doesn't mean it's anything of the kind.

Consider all the things these lost men of the GB are doing that spring from a lack of love: their child sex abuse policies, their own child sex abuse, the continuation of an insupportable policy on blood, their lying to their own membership, the deaths in Malawi, the blood of which is on their hands; their looking the other way while JW members in Mexico engaged in bribery, and in so, so many other things all stemming from a lack of love. And finally their hypocrisy. Think about it. The only thing that made The Master visibly angry to the point that he took vigorous physical action was hypocrisy, the hypocrisy of the money changers in the temple. Hypocrisy, then, must occupy a position of uttermost contempt in the eyes of God, and in the eyes of The Master.

And now, as events rush to their final conclusion, totally out of the control of these deluded men, perhaps we will personally witness the flowering of the seeds of destruction that the WTBTS has fostered and conserved now for over a hundred years. All the suffering; all the death, all the abuse of a sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual nature that the WTBTS has caused to be visited on the unknowing and trusting rank and file is about to come home to roost. Then we shall see where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be as their sheeplike covering is ripped off to reveal ravening wolves.

May it be so. Soon. Very, very soon.

francois

roybatty

That's a decision I struggle with. When my mother dies, should I go to her funeral? I just don't know. Man, it just twists my heart reading your account.

DJ

Larry,

So sorry about your Aunt. I'm glad that you were able to see her and speak with her. Your family experience sounds familiar. It's painful to go through but I still think that it is a possibility that they will remember that moment one day and think! Your Aunt sounded like a wonderful lady and I'm always so grateful to meet people like her. Yes, when love surpasses religion it is the best.

Love, Dj

Jesika

Dearest Larry,

I was so greatful to meet you and your wife in NYC. I am sorry we didn't have a chance to speak longer, but there were sooooo many there.

The bond you have with your aunt is one I wish I had with a member in my family. The kindness and love she showed you, she has also passed to you. When I met you I remember a calm coming over me and feeling like I had known you and your wife for a long time. I am truely sorry for your loss, but I am glad you got to bear your heart to her before she did pass. That has to be healing in it self.

I send my condolences from me and my family.

I do hope we can get together someday and be able to talk longer then we did. I also wanted to thank you for stopping me and introducing yourself and your wife (she is beautiful) to me. I hope we can do it again soon.

Your pics from egypt are divine!!! I love egyptian culture. The hotel I stayed in, in Vegas was the Luxor and it was gorgeous!! I wish I could see the REAL thing.

If your email is open (I didn't check before writing this, sorry), I will be emailing you!

Love you,

Jesika

Navigator

Larry

God Bless You and your Aunt! Be glad that you had the chance to say goodbye.

Francois

You are so correct! The WTS is sowing the seeds of its own destruction. When the situation becomes clearer to those "blind guides" who call themselves the GB, there will probably be some "new light".

When LOVE surpasses Religion

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