Yes new light, and the irony too is that Russell was an ardent believer in egyptology and the chart of the ages with the great pyramid in Giza and numberology to. He had some strange ideas. And a weirdo to boot. I equate my mother in the same manner.
When my parents became jehovah's witnesses, they throw out parctically everything we owned , christmas things, clothes that were given to us by our grandma because my stupid mother thought her mom was demonized. She made us throw out book and things we had recieved for years from my grandma. She throw out toys and games and everything you can think of for fear they may be contaminated by the devil. My mother was so caught up in demonizim before our family became witnesses and after being witnesses. M y life growing up with my strange and weird mother took its toll on me, she was a real truely honest crazy person. She was in her own dimensional world. And dam frightening at times. There was never truly any peace in our home, in which the Society says happens that peace and love come upon you when your a JW. That is 100% hogwash.
God I hope I am not the only one who had this happen in their life. Were you truly happy and content? That never existed in our home, oh we were great at putting on a facade but that is all it was just a facade.
My mother and father fought secretly about all the same things years in and out. Who were are our parents trying to convince, themselves or the congregations we were in? I couldn't figure them out.
I remember when my mother took a huge bag of encyclopedias and story books and nice frilly things grandma made with her own hands and my mother took them to her mother and gave them all back to her telling her she was demonized. My aunt Mary who is not or will never be a Jehovah's witnesses told me recently that my mom hurt her mom,( my grandma) so badly that she cried for years. Then several years later my mother went to talk to her again and apologize for what she had done and said to her mom, claiming she was now a mature christain and she shouldn't have been so hasty to accuse. But according to my aunt, grandma was just so heart broken to what she did and the things she and dad put us through as kids. I was no kid I was thirteen when our parents joined the JWs. But I had no choices, it was either believe our way or you will be thrown out of the house when your sixteen. Some great parents and wonderful choices. No wonder I was so screwed up by them.
God so many years of anguish I could just spit.
Anyway that is one of the chapters in my life.
Orangefatcat...
