How did you think your family would react?

shotgun

When you had compiled a mountain of evidence proving the WTBTS to be a false prophet, blind guide, and definetly not the truth, what did you feel would happen when you presented this information to your Dub family and friends?

I had compiled so much evidence it was overwhelming, I naively thought I would get my family all together and present it and they would say OMG we've been lied to this can't be the truth. Then I'd do the same to my dub friends.

What a shock!

My wife took the dub high road and my best friend tightened his blindfold as well. Your being tested by Satan they said, at least I didn't get boils like Job...that's a good thing.

What did you expect and what was the reality?

xjw_b12

When you had compiled a mountain of evidence proving the WTBTS to be a false prophet, blind guide, and definetly not the truth, what did you feel would happen when you presented this information to your Dub family and friends?

Shotgun. My dad had the mountain of evidence, but I refused to listen to him, or look at anything he presented. As you know it was my mom, in her own delicate, sincere way, that prompted me to look further.

Sometimes it's not the message, but the messenger.

blondie

I know how my family would react. I went through a similar process with an alcoholic family member. I could not get anyone to 12th step them, everyone was in denial in spite of the fact that they showed up everywhere drunk, unable to walk straight, alcohol on their breath. Instead, everyone started attacking me. It wasn't until this person's doctor and employer told them to go to rehab or be fired that this person started wising up.

Denial is strong. People would rather be a proverbial ostrich with their head in the sand then see what is really happening.

They will not believe it until they are personally hurt by the policies of the WTS.

The person above did not wake up until they were in the hospital after almost killing themselves and someone else. The time in jail was an eye-opener.

Blondie

Happythoughts

I had compiled so much evidence it was overwhelming

May I have a copy of that list?

RubaDub

Your being tested by Satan they said, at least I didn't get boils like Job

I would still check my hair for lice though. We can't be too careful.

***** Rub a Dub

Panda

Shotgun, My friends were the worst. A few did take a look and stepped out. But most took the "JW highroad" and I have only recently gotten together w/ one of my dearest old friends who has now left. But she inturn has trouble w/ one of her sons who demands complete allegience to the SS WTS. The person I spoke the least to about my reading and research was my husband Nick. He says the final straw for him wasn't actually the research but the way I was treated even before I da'd.

You've got all of us cuddley yet honest friends now. New friends who've all been "tested by Satan," and now have PhD's in baloney detection.

Panda

95stormfront

My dub relatives refuse to consider any issue where they would be forced to conclude that the WT is not what they claim it to be. They simply can't accept anything else that the WT Organization is being used by Jah and is perfect; that it's the people in it that is the source of the imperfections going on inside.

I've already relayed to my family about how disgusted I was with the WT sueing an abuse victim and all they tried doinig was to place responsibility on the backs of a brother who may have been speaking for the Soceity. Anything....grasping at anything that would shift responsibility away from the soceity or it's policies.

I've come to the conslusion that it will most likely be only after they've been personally pimp-slapped by the organization that they love so dear that they will finally get it.

Gadget

My family reacted in exactly the way I expected them to do. It was ok for my ex to keep sending me scriptural reasons as to why I should go back to meetings, but when I sent her one thing back about why I didn't want to they went mad. My dad refused to speak to me about it, instead going to the elders and all that would listen in my hall to tall them I was now a dangerous apostate.

Special K

Hey shotgun

I know it seems so clear to you that all this religion is now a farce...and your right.. IT IS A FARCE.

I knew I would never be believed if I would have approached my family and told them what was wrong with it all ,so I didn't approach them.

The first 2 years I tried, to keep myself in tact as I left (or was booted out) tried to heal my own sanity,..tried to maintain a forcefield around myself my husband and my kids.

I cut all Jehovahs Witnesses off from me .. as much as they cut off by disfellowshipping me.

I gradually dissipated their chains.. gradually peeled the layers off my eyes and develop new thought processes. Learned to question everything and everyone and learned to accept the falasies of myself and my fellow man.

They (family of origin) would not have believed me. Their eyes have a layer of skim over it. They only see through the one filter.. The Watchtower Bible and Tract society...

It's like a " sick contact lens".. that is on their eyes.. and it is produced by this cultish religion...and

INCULCATED.. in them...

Don't you just hate that word.. they used it over and over.. INCULCATE..

And the fear.. the great fear that is gradually instilled..a sublte but effective brainwashing.

Frustrating.. just so frustrating isn't it. It's like all the fish you know are swimming the wrong way.. and you are looked at as the only sick fish who keeps jumping out of their pond.

Shotgun.. in direct answer to your question.. How did you think your famly would react?..

They would have reacted just the way they are treating you..

sincerely

Special k

Winston Smith :>D

Hey shitgun ,

Everyone has reacted generally the way I thought they would. Although I did think that once I made my Q's known to my wife and elders I beleived that I would be DF'd before now.

But in general, my wife did freaked out, the elders now deam me as a threat, and my worldly relatives were glad to have me finally see the JW's as they really are; a cult.

One thing that surprised me is the DF'd friends that I approached for forgiveness because I once shunned them, they are the ones who freely forgave me and welcomed me back into their lives. This just solidifed to me that there is no real love in the borg. Even these DF'd friends that I once shunned were glad to see me in their lives regardless of my past ass-like conduct. The 'friends' in the KH now treat me like a leper or a 'special needs' case.

Mind-control tactics, you gotta admire the skillful use of them

At least now my BS detector is now finally tuned from seeing the Borg for what it really is. It's probably a bit hair-trigger sensitive, because I now go off on telemarketers and other Amway loving, Shaklee pushing, MLM BS.

Winston.

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