JWs are vultures!

by Nosferatu 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • NeonMadman
    NeonMadman

    I've also heard of JWs lurking around cemeteries on Memorial Day and handing out tracts or brochures on the "resurrection hope".

    When my father died, my JW (now ex-) wife and I were in the middle of our divorce. Nonetheless, she came into the funeral home like she owned the place and immediatley started planting tracts around the room. I hadn't made the "official" break with the WTS yet, so I said nothing. Also, I wasn't looking to create a disturbance at my father's wake. Didn't bother her, though, since she proceeded to give me a rather loud hard time because I had permitted my (Roman Catholic) step-siblings to bring in a Protestant minister for the funeral instead of my insisting on a JW elder (my father was not very religious, considered himself Protestant all his life, and didn't especially like JWs - and the only JWs in the family were me and my immediate family). Frankly, I was fully in support of their decision, which I had the power to overturn if I wanted to, as the only natural offspring of the deceased. Also, I had no desire at that point in my life to turn my father's funeral into an infomercial for the Watchtower. Just the same, she continued to press her point, creating a minor disturbance at the wake, to the point where my daughter couldn't stand it any more and walked out. I finally got sick of listening to it, and told my (now ex-) wife that if anything happened to her, I'd be sure to have a Baptist minister conduct the funeral, since the wishes of the deceased were unimportant. She responded, "Why, are you a Baptist now?" and stormed out of the funeral home. (Side note: Ironically, I am a Baptist now, though I wasn't then.) After she left, I trashed the tracts that she had left lying around. It was a small gesture, but made me feel a little better. Afterward, I caught up with my daughter and son-in-law at a restaurant and spent the evening mostly discussing what a nutjob her Mom is.

  • Preston
    Preston
    I've also heard of JWs lurking around cemeteries on Memorial Day and handing out tracts or brochures on the "resurrection hope".

    Oh.....my.....God...... That's some balls (I'm not paying a compliment here to them here).

    I finally got sick of listening to it, and told my (now ex-) wife that if anything happened to her, I'd be sure to have a Baptist minister conduct the funeral, since the wishes of the deceased were unimportant. She responded, "Why, are you a Baptist now?" and stormed out of the funeral home. (Side note: Ironically, I am a Baptist now, though I wasn't then.)

    Apologies Neon, but when I read this I was on the floor laughing my arse off.

    After she left, I trashed the tracts that she had left lying around.
    Bravo! - Preston
  • NeonMadman
    NeonMadman
    Apologies Neon, but when I read this I was on the floor laughing my arse off.

    Why apologize? It is kinda funny in retrospect, even though at the time I was feeling more like that guy in Scanners whose head explodes...

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