by Brainfloss 39 Replies latest jw experiences
It most defiantly pisses me off.
Maybe I’ll send this—
If anyone else in my life had such an absolute refusal to hear my side of an issue and still had the audacity to try at every contact that we had to push their agenda on me I would never allow contact again.
Depends on what you want to convey to her and on whether you want to stop hearing from her.
Your options would seem to be to keep hearing from her by following cyberjesus' advice (a friendly family letter that stresses the here and now and doesn't mention religion at all)...
... or to stop the communication by telling her what you've told us, that you are annoyed because she feels free to comment on your relationship with Jehovah any time she sees fit but won't even listen if you try to point out inconsistencies from the Watchtower's own publications.
If you do want to cut off communications you might also ask her if she wrote that letter on her own initiative or on organizational instructions. For example, how much time is she reporting for having written it?
Ah yes the crux of the matter indeed isn’t it Ding. She is free to tell my still in family that she tried her best to save poor old spiritually lost Brainfloss no matter what move I make. I’m the only one with anything to lose. Quite a gambit the society has put in place.
Jehovah's Witnesses live in a childish fantasy.
Since when did Jehovah do anything at all? How can anything be attributed solely to Jehovah's doing? There is no evidence for any deity let alone Jehovah, therefore he and his exploits live only in the realm of fairy tales.
The only evidence for YHVH is in the evolution of an ox-headed idol the Hebrews inherited from their Phoenician neighbours way back in the Bronze Age. Who would want to "draw close" to this monster as your sister is recommending? Jehovah hates everything the Hebrews hated back then. This god's 'love' for his devotees involved killing all those who disagreed with him including smashing the heads in of all the children who were not his followers. It's far worse than childish -- worshipping Jehovah was routinely evil exactly like the exploits of other pagan gods at the time. In Isaiah 45 v7 (and elsewhere) God says he does good and evil. He is a jealous god with a short temper, completely fabricated from the worst qualities of fanatical nationalist zealots. Have nothing to do with it.
Help your poor deluded sister with the milk of human kindness and fellow feeling, help her to escape the madness which comes from slavish obedience to this crackpot religion.
Thank you Half Bananna.
I was once consumed with the search for ways to liberate my loved ones from this evil real estate cult. Now I go for months at a time without ever thinking about it. Lately due to a lot of free time the thoughts have drifted back into my mind. It’s a vicious cycle.
Sadly, she believes she is showing the ultimate love by trying to save your life even when you don't appreciate it.
She can't fathom why you don't trust her organizational savior and she won't listen when you try to tell her.
I have personally found that the only satisfying answer they want to hear is how right they are. Something like, 'Hi , My dear sister, you are so right, thanks to your reaching out its like jehovah answered my prayers, I was literally in prayer when your text come through asking for forgiveness and taking steps to contact my local elders so that I may come back to jehovahs loving protection."
What seems to make them flip is no contact/response what so ever at all.
They are going to make up in their mind how superior they are and how "worldly,sinning, under demonic influence, lost spiritually dead, and hopeless you are". no matter what you say.
I see no sense in giving them anything to feed on one way or the other. Its my own personal way of saying "f you " with out saying it. Drives them up the wall.
Yes I think you are correct. No response is probably best. Let her stew, then in a week or two send her some more pics of the kiddos.
Sending angry stuff will only make them believe stronger in Watchtowers false claim that all who leave are angry, bitter, unhappy.
Yet it could be a great opportunity to poke the bear a bit.
She wrote "I want to be able to do that with you in paradise. Get to know you and your family".
I'd definitely respond with something like "I'd love for you to spend some time with us and get to know us too! Good thing we can already do that today. You're kindly invited to [dinner at my place / phone call / whatever]. We're available [whatever date suits you]. Let me know if that date suits you too."
She is putting conditions on her love. I would tell her that and that I was never going to be involved with the cult again.
