Internal wars in Congs ?

Chook

Can you relay some of the battles , who won and how did the loser cope ?

lancelink

One HS aged son of an elder wanted to go to his prom with a sister. The girls parents were OK with it, but the boys dad was a big shot in the hall and he would not have anything to do with this !

Well, my wife was a teacher, and we signed up to be chaperones for the evening, that really burned the elder, because it seemed that we were siding with the girl and her parents.

He tried so many ways to belittle us for chaperoning, but we stuck to our guns and went to the prom.

Man, did he do a slow burn for several months afterward, because the kids had a good time and they were being "watched" by other witnesses, although that wasn't out reasoning. Afterwards I noticed that my privileges started to dry up, and at that time my fade was really in high gear. Thanks mr. p, you really helped me realize what was important.

sparrowdown

Ah yes the congregational turf wars and power struggles between the top couples/families jostling for for top positions that usually ended with blood on the dancefloor and shameless victory laps by the winning couple/family - so loving, so christian and so common in congregations of JWs. I've witnessed enough of them to know they end in tears.

There was a situation where this nice brother moved in and the locals couldn't get enough of him used him as a sounding board for their complaints about the local elders the local elders got wind of what was happening and they busted his ass down to deleted elder status I felt real sorry for the guy he walked into a trap by "Boss Hog" and his crew.

scratchme1010

an you relay some of the battles , who won and how did the loser cope ?

To many to mention. Let's see...

In the congregation where I grew up there was a fight between the three elders of the congregation, one of them being my father. Actually there were several arguments and political fights against those three morons. Looking back, I think they looked like the three stooges trying to lead a congregation, but back then it wasn't fun hearing them assassinating each other's characters and trying to make each other look bad in front of everybody. None of them went to school after sixth grade.

The first fight I remember was over the 1975 thing. My father calling them insane for believing that the end was coming in October 1975. The other became a pioneer that month and trained himself on how to survive with eating just leaves.

The other fight was over the virginity of the daughter of one of them. Once the guy brought to the KH a certificate from a doctor stating that his daughter was still a virgin.

The other was over who was really being a true JW. The other elders started showing up in my father's house unannounced in attempts at catching him or any member of our family doing something wrong.

Then the fights changed to become about coolness and having things and looking good. The entrance to the KH became a runway where people would make their fashion statement as they made their flashy entrance for everybody to admire and see how stunning they are. Same thing and attitude over having cars and things. Social events became very divisive and displays of power.

Then as we grew up the fights were about us, the children in school doing, saying or being the right thing. Then about who was interested in who. They were just looking for anything anywhere to continue their stupid fights, even at the expense of causing harm to their own families.

As a young adult, in a different congregation, it was a very passive aggressive fighting. The congregation was severely divided by social class. The territory covered both areas with very poor people and very well-to-do people. There were a couple of racist idiots, but at the meetings you'd see them acting as if they all were BFFs (is that term still cool?). It was very hypocritical, and honestly I wasn't prepared for that type of culture.

One elder there went as far as not talking to me but talking to my brother. Apparently my brother was worthy of his acknowledgement, but not me. To this day I don't know why. Their get-togethers and planning meetings were displays of power from the "educated" elders over the rest of "them" in the congregation.

I can go on with stories, but what I posted provides some ideas.

OUTLAW

Internal wars in Congs ?
who won and how did the loser cope ?

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