Mishnah and God Knows:
I have been coming here for about 3 months now and I don't understand where you see all this hate you are talking about. Yes there are some of us who are angry and rightfully so.
If you were to believed someone who claimed to be chosen to guide you in your worship of God and you trusted, listened to, followed their directions on sacrificing your time and energy, and you believed the 'carrot they dangled in front of you' of a paradise earth sooooooon to come because they had special insight on prophecies.... and then found out, without a doubt, that they were wrong, deliberately misleading you, deliberately twisting quotations to their own purpose to the point of making their statements an outright lie, to manipulate the masses to gain more 'recruits', deliberatly mistranslating God's word to suit their beliefs.....HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? Betrayed? duped? disillusioned? hurt? crushed?
And what if, because of what you found out, you wanted to let others know to help them see the truth, or you tried to show your findings to elders to get them to do something about it? What would happen? Would they say, "Hey thank you so much for caring enough to share that with us....we'll inform the GB so they can correct it."
No..not a chance. Many of us here have experienced just that and have been dealt with in the most horrendous, unjust, inhumane way possible....being cut off from family members, from their love and association or have had their spouses told they would be better of divorced....and be told that it's their own fault.
The people here have every right to express their hurt, anger, frustration, shock, or even their lack of faith in God anymore...it's "like they've been hit in the gut, and can't catch their breath."
If they express that anger here, they/we find true understanding, encouragement, love, empathy, help and support. If one of us steps out of line, others quickly straighten us out.
But do you know who are the ones who express the most sarcasim, hatred, rejoicing in the supposed slaughter of these people here and their innocent babies? It's the JWs who spout off their superior, holier-than-thou, supreme ignorance.
So please, spend some more time reading the informative, intelligent, information that is posted here....and look at the humor too, it's just called "fun". We're not wallowing in muck and mire and deviance here.....we're healing from the spirit-crushing experience we all been through and are still going through and helping others to heal too.
Had Enough
