How to Fly Under the Radar

by metatron 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    It's taken me a while to overcome my intense bitterness - but I'm finally mending.

    -- and that makes it easier to 'fly under the radar' when meeting Witnesses!

    I bumped into a young Witness mother at a mall. I flattered her and told her about
    how enjoyable college was. She said she had been thinking about it.

    I encountered a faithful Witness mom with teenage kids. I told her all about
    how bad it was to have Witness kids getting into trouble - and what sense does
    it make going door to door, when our own kids are getting into trouble?
    She heartily agreed.

    I encountered an old elder friend. I talked about planning for retirement and
    various investments I found profitable. He lamented about not having much of anything
    put aside. I talked to another elder friend about the Society losing money.

    And so it goes! No 607/1914/1975/blood fraud/child molesting - unless there's
    a real opportunity to talk about that stuff.

    I just KEEP CHIPPING AWAY, flying under the radar. You just figure out how much
    truth about the 'truth' each person can take.

    It's working

    metatron

  • wheelwithinwheel
    wheelwithinwheel

    We've chiseled away too and managed to get our best friends out. The husband, who resisted most, has finally been checked off in my book of outs. Now were working on another couple. They invite us, or accept an invitation to go out, in hopes of getting us to go back, but we pack our chisels and work away. We had another couple in the works but I think the husband (elder) discovered some cracks developing and has suspending our chiseling for now.

    To the chiselers!!!!!

  • Englishman
    Englishman

    Yeah, where is Radar these days anyway?

    Englishman.

  • Gig
    Gig

    This thread is really timely for me, I've been struggling with my own bitterness lately. Though I've never been a JW, I've learned enough to know I'll never be one. This chiseling thing makes the most sense of anything I can think of anymore. To give up has never been an option, so only the amount of truth they can bear at the time. Got it, thank you.

    Gig

  • heathen
    heathen

    Good points on the uruly children but on the planning ahead they constantly have it beaten over their heads that they only have to pray to God for the needs of each day.

  • freedom96
    freedom96

    For all those who are able to pull this off, my hat is off to you.

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