Not me, but my ex-wife did she ran to them about having oral sex and wanted to be punished, they would not so I did.
Shane
Were You One of Those That Ran To The Elders About Everything???
by minimus 35 Replies latest jw friends
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Room 215
Not me. For one thing, I was an elde myself for a good proportion of the time; and secondly I learned rather quickly that the only thing they excelled at was making a bad situation worse.
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minimus
There is this one elder in the Hall that I went to that is still the biggest dickhead I've ever known. He thinks he's there to save the congregation. He spies on people, watches them, inquires as to how their doing so they can just give him information that he's looking for.
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undercover
I didn't give this thread much thought at first. I wasn't one to run to the elders...so I had nothing to share, or so I thought. I'm pretty much a live and let live kind of person, even though JWs as a group are encouraged to snitch on one another.
As I read through this thread today, I rememberd one time that I went to the elders. A sister, an upstanding pioneer sister at that, became involved with some unsavory worldy people that I worked with. Knowing that these people were trouble (or so I thought at the time...I mean they were worldly, they had to be trouble) I spoke to an elder about it. He asked me to keep my ears and eyes open for new developments. After a while, some shit hit the fan and I knew all about it, I spent hours with the elders telling them every little thing about her, them and their exploits that I knew of. This was happening at a point in my life when I was trying to do my damndest to be a good JW. I felt good about being a snitch. I mean, I was protecting the good name of Jehovah. I was a good JW and she wasn't.
Looking back on it now, I realize I was a dumbass. No, I was worse. I was an asshole and a dumbass. Dumbass for believing the shit that I was upholding Jehovah's soveriegnty somehow and an asshole for sticking my nose where didn't belong. These people did nothing to me. They had hurt nobody else. I'm the one that made a federal case out of it to the elders. I'm the one that wanted to see her punished.
Thinking back on that episode, I have trouble believing that was actually me that did all that. I never had done that before, in fact, I was the kind to actually wink at wrongdoing by others, so as to not get involved. I have never done it since. But for that time period when the WTS tactics worked their best on me, I forsaked my own personal beliefs and conduct code and became an underhanded, informing, low-life of a snitch to help the WTS further their cause and control of others.
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minimus
Bravo Undercover for your candor! You became the victim to try to prove you were a good JW. It happens all the time.
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codeblue
never..................only a few times and those times were of "serious nature"....like husband cheating or people visiting df'd relatives (at our KH they told us NO one could visit their df'd relatives)...
Basically, I felt I was NOT a spiritual babe....knew how to read the Bible and my relationship was between me and Jehovah.........not a group of men at my KH. I knew how to do Bible research.