If You Value Love, NEVER Become a Jehovah's Witness!

by metatron 24 Replies latest jw experiences

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  shotgun

  Amen Metatron

  I do have to agree with Mizpah

  I really don't blame individual Jehovah's Witnesses as much as I do the organization that controls and smoothers any initiative that one may have.

  I know there are many who do not see the Org as the guilty one but it does teach hate. I hear 2 and 3 yr old children being told repeatedly Jah hates birthdays, Jah hates Christmas who wants you to celebrate these things yes that's right children Satan...and Jah hates Satan doesn't he. There is alot of love in the congregations but it's conditional on acceptance of all the GB regulations and teachings which turns it into something which is similar to a club or an association. In unions you often hear ones calling each other brother and sister and they have rules and guidelines to follow, judicial hearings and grievance meetings which often makes me think of the JW arrangements.

  Maybe we should unionize the organization...Do you think the CAW would be interested Who wants to be a shop steward?
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  sens

  Metatron, this post made me think of the endless memorys of the coldness in the cong. I was in. There is no love there...never will be...not real love and concern anyway...their 'fake' love always comes with a knife in the back.

  I know its painful.

  (((((((((((((((metatron))))))))))))))))))

  I think it is hard to generalize Jehovah's Witnesses and say all lack love and compassion. I knew a number of them that were wonderful and caring people.

  Miz, yer me 2 but not that many, which is really sad...but not long after i left one of the couples in the hall who really are loving and kind left a message on my answering machine...left me in tears for days.

  3 Sens 4
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  ignorance is strength

  Good post. It really makes you think about the fake love that all of us have experience in the JWs.
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  frenchbabyface

  If You Value Love, NEVER Become a Jehovah's Witness!

  AMEN !

  lets pray together !
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  berylblue

  I think many here tried to love. Did love. And that's why we're not there anymore
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  sens

  I think many here tried to love. Did love. And that's why we're not there anymore

  I totally agree, well said berylblue

  3 Sens 4
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  micheal

  Honestly if that place was everything or even somewhat as they say it is. Why would any of us ever leave? It just would not make any sense.

  In reality the reason most of us here left was for the hypocisy and the extreme dislike most had for each other.
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  blondie

  metatron, when I read this it brought back so many events in my life among JWs that proved that love as a whole does not dwell among them.

  The account of your wife writing anniversary cards brought back one vividly.

  None of my husband's family are JWs. Since we have been married, he has lost several of his family members. We have not gone to the church service, but we have gone to the visitation. We have helped my MIL open the cards afterwards. There were hundreds and most had $1 or two in them. She asked if we had received any cards. We had to hang our heads. In spite of it being announced at the meeting, we had received only one card from a sister who has faithfully sent cards for years. Even my own JW family sent nothing. Our respective workplaces had sent flowers or a plant and a card but nothing from our congregation.

  I asked the elders to call on us after that. When they came I asked for an explanation to give to my Lutheran MIL. They hemmed and hawed and tried to play the "imperfection" card, but I would not let them. I hit them with scripture after scripture. One elder finally apologized and said that he would be sending a card. It has been 6 years now....the post office must have lost it.

  I told them that most JWs did not make or take the time because it could not be put on a field service report.

  It's like the pioneer sisters only visiting a sister in the hospital after visiting an RV there. They have to be able to count the time or they won't make the effort.

  To JWs love, is only something that one can record on a slip to be turned in monthly.

  The reason I finally left was I could not see the love of Christ being shown. Talked about yes, but not lived.

  I can still remember the sister who came up to me at a congregation we visited on vacation, "Pardon me, are you baptized?" When I said yes, she was off with the wind without so much as a hello, how are you. Yes, she could not put her time with me on her slip.

  Blondie
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  marriedtodamob

  I have to tell you, this is EXACTLY what I have seen and experienced as a non-JW wife, attending meetings etc. Thanks to YOU and I mean ALL OF YOU>>> I will NEVER become a JW, even if it means the loss of my marriage. Keep enlightening us in Christendom who were former "lurkers"...
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  wheres caleb?

  John 13:35 says, "By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves."

  A disciple according to their research materials is a 'learner', a pupil, a student. Their actions prove that all those meetings, hours in field service, and all those prayers, have only given them a distorted understanding of love. I have lost all regard and respect for these so-called witnesses of Jehovah.

  Let them have their lies and distorted perspectives. Their notion of faith, love, and loyalty is measured by not how stupid they are, but how stupid they choose to be.