I just thought I'd share some JW mum sayings with you. It can be painful seeing someone waste their lives in the borg. But sometimes you've just got to laugh. My husband's had another 'tell me why you left, son' talk with his mum. (Wendy, there must be something in the air).
First of all, he pointed out the backstabbing and spying that is rife in the congregations. To which she replied, 'yes, that's true, but it's not as bad as it used to be'.
So it seems like the society's improving all the time. Backstabbing's at an all time low. Doesn't that make you want to go running back?
Asked why she is unable to defend her beliefs from the bible after more than 30 years of studying (is this a JW norm?), when I can manage a reasonable defence after only 2 - 'well I haven't looked into it as much as you and you're more academic, you can understand Greek grammar'. (Although she always claims that she really looked into it before she jumped, and I've never mentioned Greek grammar).
Anyway, the conversation wound up with her denying that the WTS ever said that anyone accepting blood fractions would be disfellowshipped. So if anyone can tell me which WT that was in - and where I can buy it on the net - please point me in the right direction.
Do you think that such desperate answers indicate that we could be getting somewhere? Or is this a lost cause?
Love
Sunbeam
xxx
BTW, my agnostic husband didn't want to tell me this, but he decided to show her a key change in the NWT, the 'Word was a god' line in contrast to its rendering in the interlinear. But he couldn't remember where it was. When he opened the bible it practically fell open at John 1. Spooky!