I have it somewhere in a closet, I think. If no one else has it handier, I'll dig it out.
Has anyone read Awake Nov 8th 'When loved ones do not share your faith',
by barry 18 Replies latest jw friends
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ESTEE
overwhelming "love"?
Defined as "shunning" ...
Remember ... they think they are "loving" us by shunning us if we are df'd ...
ESTEE
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Athanasius
Sorry, but haven't been to the laundromat lately to get the latest copies of the Watch Tower and Awake.
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barry
So this artical doesnt include the ones that have left the JW religion.To most people it would seem they were talking out of both sides of there mouth.
I think if I had to decide a position to take I would have to be an Awake JW. Barry.
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barry
Just before the artical 'When loved ones do not share youre faith' there is a good artical about Prague. I was over there just before it left the soviet bloc, I got arrested for my passport not being in order but it wasnt my fault. Nice historic place and things were so cheap then dunno what its like now. Barry
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AlanB
Blondie,
Thanks for that, interesting stuff. I remember that we used to take this forgranted and treated others in this way it seems so horrific now.
Good thing I faded really otherwise it would create difficulties for my two boys.
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flower
I think perhaps in that article they are talking about 'loved ones who do not share your faith'...as opposed to 'loved ones who are disfellowshipped'. There is a difference in their minds.
I dont think they have ever called for shunning of non jw relatives unless they are dfd or da'd.
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flower
Why do they show us this overwhelming "love"? It's so that we might feel bad and come back to their 'loving' religion.
These people ought to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Andrew Carnegie.
(The main ex-JW's go back to the faith is in an attempt to resume association with JW family members, and not because they've had a wholesale change of heart attitude with regard to the JW faith.)
I honestly dont know why this doesnt bother them. Try explaining it to them in these simple terms and its like their brain freezes up and the subject must change. My mother literally told me that even though she talks to me the rest of the family is shunning me to 'get me to come back'.
I looked at her like she had two heads and said 'you REALLY think that is going to get me to go back? Because I just want to talk to them soooo bad that I come back? For one thing you give them WAY too much credit as people and as family, and for another thing is that why people are supposed to come back in the first place?"
They can be such dorks.