by lovinlife 26 Replies latest jw friends
LL, if your Dad is the P.O. of his cong., he's due for some disciplinary action from the Gov. Potty over his going beyond what is written. Even in the "world," the Red Cross notifies fam members in case of life-threatening illness and/or death. This gives the JWs the appearance of being heartless and totally unmerciful. That's family business, the health and well-being of its members.
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Frannie B
Lovinlife,
Your post really moved me. It brought back so many painful memories for me. My thoughts are with you and I hope that things get better for you. Stay strong,
Love L
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Nikita
Actually they are going overboard. You are a blood realative. It is out of the juradiction of the WTS (protecting the congregation). I can post it if you want. They are just being um evil. It is not a Watchtower thing this is a JW thing.
lovinglife.
I am so sorry this has happened to you. This is a very sad story to me and would be to most normal human beings. Maybe best to write your brother a letter and tell him how you feel--at least then he will know and maybe share it with his wife. Don't know what else to say. Sending my love and sympathy to you.
cybs
((((((((lovnlife))))))))) So sorry to hear you are experienceing such cruel treatment by your family. Especially that they are your parents. It seems that they have issues they are acting out and using the religion as an excuse for thier disfuntional treatment of you. There is no reason on earth why a parent should treat their own child so hatefully excep that there is something lacking in thier own personality and way of parenting, and having disfunctional behavior displayed by using twisted reasoning of their religious interperatation of how to behave toward you.
I so appreciate all your thoughts. I agree that they are disfunctional and that this treatment goes beyond the Watchtower thing. I feel that they are punishing me for not living my life the way they taught me and that it reflects on them and so I have embarrassed them in the cong. My parents are particularly affected by what others think. They instilled that in me and so it took a long time to get that out of me.
XQ, I know what you mean about how what they are doing is not coming from the WT, or written in the elders manual etc. I remember previous posts about it and realized then how much farther my parents carry their treatment of me than is really necessary to please the elders/org etc.
I appreciate you all so much! Thanks for helping me to feel better and to get things back into a better perspective!
I agree. They are just being ignorant or spiteful. JWs will shunning the crap out of you providing you are not a relative considering most JWs are total strangers before you come to the hall thats not a big deal to me. I also don't mind them shunning you for personal resons because it is their free will to be a dysfunctional family as long as they don't cop out and say it is because you are DFed. If the watchtower will let a dfed person move into the home of a JW relative off the street how can they justify not telling you about a family emergency.
XQ, I so totally agree with you. They really have no excuse. My friend, also df'd, says that after this emergency eases alittle, I should write them a letter and eloquently tell them what I think of the way they are going beyond what is written and how inhumane I feel that they are toward their own daughter. No sure I am going to do that just yet with the situation so dire with sis in law, but maybe later. But no matter what I say, they will justify it. As you can guess, they are very controlling people. And they can be rather self-righteous--kind of like the Pharasees going beyong what what written and instead of just washing their hands, they made sure they washed up to their elbows! I really feel sorry for them most of the time.
In my opinion, your parents have gone beyond even what that Witchpower Society has directed. They are supposed to maintain "normal family matters" and advising you of the illness of your sister-in-law more than qualifies. Time to "counsel" your parents about their "unscriptural" behaviour, and to encourage them to follow the directions of Witchpower.
