Heather, ((hun))
My predilection for phone conversations is, for better or worse, a reputation that I will never live down. LOLOL Call anytime...just please do it on "free minutes" or 5-cent-a minute rates Or, we can call you.
It's been a long time since I've been angry in the way I am now, so let me explain:
A JW I've known for 25 years (imo, one of the 'good guys')...we haven't talked for 15 years. He called me last month, and needed some financial help. You can imagine my surprise! But, he very generously had helped out when my brother was going though cancer (this month was 18 years since his death), so I was more than happy to do what I could.
Well, I was up-front and told him that I was DFd, for good and never-ever-again to be a JW, and even so he proceeded to divulge all this crap he's going through (for several years), with elders I've known for a long long time...one used to work for me, one was on a JC about me, and one is the brother of another elder that had an affair with my first wife.
After listening for an hour, I finally lost it and said: "Man, face it: you better get used to bending over and <<edited>>, cause that's how life in the WTS is. And don't expect Jehovah to 'fix it in his own time,' because you'll be dead in your grave and it still won't be fixed."
He ran out the door with a very scared look.
I don't expect that I'll ever see him again, nor the money I "loaned' him...
that damned religion, it's screwed us up in so many ways, beyond comprehension.
All I can say is, I'm sooooooooo thankful to have met you wonderful friends (including my little wifey, but don't tell her I said that! LOL). I never would have imagined.
Craig
