by badboy 16 Replies latest jw friends
I heard from someone some years ago that when he was in a psychiatric hospital(now closed)that there was a jw who was a religious maniac in with him(he once pulled a coat rack off in one moment of religious mania).
were there any religious maniacs in your congregation?
i think there were around 120, more on memorial night.
I have written about my Aunt-fanatical Esther a few times on this board. Believe me when I say that she is a nutjob maniac and 1/2.
When I would go and visit, we would receive beatings for watching Starsky & Hutch, or listening to The Knack, and for playing batman and robin. She denounced anything and everything that was a threat to her as demonized. She kept a gallon of Earnest & Julio Gallo uncorked at all times and once came over to our house when my mother had just returned home from a full hysterecomy to beat the crap out of her for daring to disagree with her on some trivial matter. Brave of her.
She was totally pissed off when my mom was killed by a drunk driver . . . because my mother was a JW in good standing and her untimely death ensured a free ticket into the new system while she, Esther, has to live out the rest of her days worrying if she would make it or not. She has run down the middle of her street in drunken hysterics bringing reproach on Jehovah's name and all kinds of other crap her elder son-in-law managed to cover over for her, while being quick to turn in anyone else for violating JW creed. She is a practicer of petty intrigue and has committed scandalous acts she should have been df'd for many times over, yet remains in good standing for the fact that her darling daughter, Clementine is married to an elder.
She is a ruthless vindictive bitch who treated my mother like dirt, and when she finally dies, I will stand at her grave drinking a 40 oz. beer and piss all over her headstone. Here is what a JW fanatic looks like . . .
CORVIN, TELL ME MORE,TELL ME MORE
Not sure I would say fanatic... still a nutjob tho. I signed up for college along with two other brothers, and we carpooled there every day. One of them turned out to be a nut... He insisted on calling all of the guys in the class "brother" and the gals "sister". When we pointed it out to him he said "well, we really are still brothers and sisters, even if they arent in the truth". Now if he was a big black guy, then calling someone "brother" would be quite normal, but he was a little white guy with a scouser accent.
If nothing else he gave us a good laugh.
FMZ
lol, BADBOY. What would you like to know? My aunt-drunken-fanatical-Esther is a total kook.
My gramma died a faithful JW, but was not in the least fanatical. She was a good hearted lady who was strong and raised 10 kids by herself. Once, my aunt went into her house and saw an arrangement of artificial roses on my gramma's wall. My aunt accused her of having them arranged in the shape of a cross and demanded my gramma get rid of them because she was inviting the demons into her house.
She would not let us kids listen to "One Tin Soldier" because it was a demonized song. A line from the song says. "go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend . . . ".
The retarded bitch would hear something in the meeting and run like hell with it, putting upon everyone to change immediately and conform to the almighty WTBTS at her whim.
If you were to look up the word, "hypocrite" in Webster's, you would find her picture there.
OMG, I could go on and on, but I will wait to use the other anecdotes for appropriate threads.
Corvin
I look forward to your posts,Corvin.
Must rush!
Actually, I found most JWs tried hard to only do the minimum. Even pioneers. To me a fanatic is someone who wanted to go in field service on Saturday afternoon, go to the meeting during a blizzard, and whose personal Talmud was longer than the WTS'.
Blondie
(I'm not sure the following stories are in theme as such - but they do display maniacal tendencies)
Story 1:
The following may be construed as being tragic, but here goes:
There was a brother (this is going back a bit) who became deluded about demon attacks and began to hallucinate; seeing small gremlin creatures manifesting around the house.
This is true by the way.
A good friend of mine who is currently disfellowshipped knew this brother extremely well and shared a house with him for a while.
The deluded brother prepared a talk and performed an audition it in front of my friend in his private bedroom. The bedroom had a window looking out over the yard and a small washing line which was attached to the upper part of the window-frame to a pole in the garden area.
Whilst presenting his discourse, the deluded one gave a small cough and asked to be excused for a moment. He went and retrieved a small pair of scissors from the main living area and returned to my friend's bedroom. He then proceeded to open the window and taking the washing line in hand; cut the line with the scissors and returned to his discourse.
Anyway.
Later that day, my good friend approached this brother and asked him why during his talk did he feel the need to snip the line. With an apparent blank expression the deluded (and quite ill) brother explained that there was a sinister looking demon sitting on the washing line staring through the window at him. He said he found this very off putting and decided to deal with the situation there and then.
I found this quite amusing at the time, but upon reflection it is very worrying that a set of beliefs can push ones mind to these extremes.
Brother-gremlin later was arrested for pounding on a local Baptist church door at 3 in the morning whilst ranting about 'Babylon The Great' in his dressing gown.
Story 2:
A sister I personally knew used to try and regularly convince me of various demon attacks that she had personally witnessed. On one occasion she told me in front of a whole book study group that her bed sheets one day were blowing in the wind whilst drying and were all as stiff as a board?!? This she assigned to Satan.
There were various other minor ramblings, but that one always sticks in my mind as being very odd.
(footnote: I do actually believe in malevolant spirit creatures and I also believe in the fragility of the human mind)
Corvin:
I appreciate you repeating the Esther Chronicles for us new ones. I would have never read the old posts because of the volumes that there are to read hear, but now I feel compelled to go look for the old stories. Great story as usual. Keep 'em coming.
Exjdub
