by slimboyfat 18 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I love these anecdotal stories one automatically believes as 100% true. Its just hilarious.Sharks with lasers on their heads even!?.....problemaddict 2
Just a Little Farther..
To the Kingdom Hall.........................................OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..
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Thats what I was looking for. Lol.
"But the young man never relented in publicly declaring what he thought to be true..."
Hmmm....???? What he "thought to be true.." Looks like it's time for an "adjusted understanding."
DD 😑
I don't always agree with everything slimboyfat posts, but I'm with him 100% on this one.
Always rejoice at a sinner repented.
Indeed!
This is a great thread!
The OP quote from that Awake requires a new thread all on its own for new forum viewers.
Good catch SBF. It's just like when you hear time and time again ones saying that if you don't want to be a Witness just leave, no one's stopping you, no one's holding you hostage. As soon as you point out the result is ruined relationships with friends and family they then say it's the fault of the person for wanting out, they only have themselves to blame.
This is an interesting subject to me. I can totally understand why current JWs hate faders: it takes away their power because faders don't play into the Watchtower rules.
But what I never understood was why some EX JWs are so hard-nosed against faders. Let me tell you my run-in with one:
A woman who goes by the name Sue Taylor on Facebook (AKA littlegirlietaylor) read my first book Journey to God's House and friended me to talk about my book She went on and on about how brilliant the writing was, how I had a "gift" and so on. She gave the book 5 stars on Amazon.com with a wonderful review added and took to championing my book on social media as an ex-JW who thought my book should be read by everyone. Of course, that was all very flattering, so I engaged her in small talk using Facebook messaging thanking her. All was good.
Fast forward about 6 months and I released my second book, Escape from Paradise. One chapter in it explains how I faded from the JWs. Well, this woman went beserk about that. She Facebook messaged me a long rambling message of how I was a fake, that I needed therapy, that I wasn't "true to self" and bunches of other insults about me and my family. She Facebook unfriended me and then wrote a 1 star review on the book. She even changed the previous 5 star review for the first book to a 1 star review and changed the review itself slamming the book she had previously praised.
To top it all off, she went on a rampage of down-voting every good review both of my books had, adding in snide comments on other reviews and so on. She even wrote "The Society" about me and then called the Police on me when I responded to her abuse telling her she was out of line. She was so nuts I had to report her to Amazon and they eventually took down everything she did because they could see she was abusing the review policy.
But what set her off was the one paragraph in my second book where I simply stated I chose to fade rather than disassociate myself, explaining why I did it. That simply infuriated her.
Since then, I've watched out for other ex-JWs who resent faders. It's not a lot, but there are some.
To me they seem to resent it that they disassociated themselves or got disfellowshipped and suffered over it and they feel that faders "cheat" the system and don't have to pay the price they paid.
Well, I want to say to any potential fader-haters out there who might be reading this that EVERYONE pays a price for leaving the JWs. Some pull the band aid off quickly, others slowly, but it hurts either way. Faders have many reasons for fading, but don't think they don't suffer. It's just done in a different way. It may be that some faders may suffer even worse than many non-faders.
So if this is you (an ex-JW fader-hater) please, ease up. Just be happy you're out and stop resenting others who may have got out differently than you.
Brock Talon
slipboyfat - "I came across this weird blog that castigates fading JWs for their 'cowardice' and 'hypocrisy' for not making themselves vulnerable to shunning."
"Who the hell do you guys think you are? Get back here and confess so we can ostracize you!!!"
Jeezus, that's like condemning a boxer for ducking a punch. :laughing:
