I know, I know, it's considered the lowest hanging fruit to
ever hurl the "you're still in the mindset of a JW" at anyone. Our
version of Godwin's law by whose standards the thread has come to an end and
we've lost the "argument". But in this case the comparison is just so
obvious it smacks you right in the face.
I think we can make an exception to Godwin's law here
because he learned this behavior, or it was reinforced, somewhere. Home, with
his mommy and daddy? Probably. But at the KH? Definitely.
Besides, look how much it mirrors JW elder/pioneer behavior.
WT literature has come right out and blamed wives for their husband's adultery
by claiming they might be "withholding" the "marital due."
So, if you feel sorry enough for yourself about what's going on at home, you're entitled to go boink another
woman and it's the wife's fault for failing you.
Pioneers always had their hands out for money. I remember
one guy, lived at home literally in the parent's basement while pioneering, was
on his way to being made elder from his teen years, and barely worked. We'd go out for fast food
after a Sunday meeting, he'd order and then when the cashier told him the
amount, he'd step back and say "Oh I don't have that" with an
expectant look on his face. Sure enough, some pleeb would step in and pay for
him. More than one pioneer expected other congregation members to fix their
cars for free or pay for their repair, they never drove in service because they couldn't afford the gas, and one
couple I know eventually got into trouble for keeping any donations that
householders gave them at the door.
It didn't stop with finances... one couple I know, the husband worked evenings so he was home during the day but asleep. She pioneered but homeschooled, which meant she left her preteen daughter at home to do her schoolwork herself. Literally, the kid wasn't technically alone in the house but alone with her schooling from age 5 or 6 onward. Mom would be dead before she gave up her special pioneering status and she certainly wasn't going to let a child at home get in the way of it.
And elders expected to have their time on the platform with the enraptured crowd hanging on to their every word. Every decision should be run by them because they're somehow smarter or wiser than the average R&F. You felt so privileged to have an elder over for dinner and god help you when the CO showed up. They stayed at your house, you cooked and cleaned for them, and then slid them some money for the privilege of doing it.
Every one of these applies to him. The arrogant ass hat elder who knows better and whom you don't dare criticize, the pioneer and traveling CO who's entitled to your financial support, and the sick pervert who gets to step out on his wife because she's somehow failing him. He's the JW hat trick.
