Are you an Irritating Bastard?

by gumby 82 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Sunspot

  Gumbabes,

  I wrote one letter to all JWs who I was related to or who had email, when I left the WTS. I didn't pursue anything other than that (well, just once at a family gathering after the calling hours for a nonJW member. I was outwardly shunned by an active JW and after he left--I wanted to explain why he had acted that way to me)

  I was more of an irritating bastard when I was coming in to the Org----hadn't learned the art of tact when trying to "save" all my frends and relatives.....I felt it was my personal duty to warn them all of the END, which was, of course, just around the corner dontcha know! (1971)

  Annie
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  undercover

  Did you push your believing mate right out the door with your verbal assaults? Did you send out a long letter to all of your witness family and friends telling them what a lying cult the Watchtower Organisation is?

  I did the opposite. I just quit going. I didn't announce anything or offer reasons. The only time I gave any indication of my feelings was when someone asked. If they didn't ask, I didn't say anything. Call it passive aggressiveness maybe.

  Over time, no one in my family says much anymore. Because when they ask, I do tell them and then they have to withdraw into their defensive shell because I'm speaking against the WTS. So after awhlile they just quit asking.
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  crazyblondeb

  My mother, who is a JW, is one of the most irritating bitches. Constantly "you need to come back to jehovah" and all the shit that comes along with it. Last night I had to email her and told her to "have a nice life", leave me the hell alone! So the irritating goes both ways!!!!!!

  SHELLEY
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  luna2

  I don't have anybody to be an annoying bastard (bitch) to! I guess I could write to select people from the KH (that I haven't seen or spoken to for three years). LOL

  I think my motto will be to answer if people ask and not volunteer anything. Don't want to cause anybody to slip and fall trying to run away from the hideous apostate.
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  satirev

  best thread title on this board. hahaha

  i didn't go door to door with it, if that's what you mean...

  nah. i just left quietly. my wife and i were on our way out anyways. she had more of a problem with it then i did, but i was only there for 4 years. i would liken her ways to that of a former stoner or cigarette smoker who quit and want to guilt their peers into quitting too... her ways were more like that than to save her friends. that first bookstudy we missed for the last time was a pretty liberating feelng though, i will admit.
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  Preston

  Well.....if you did........maybe your a dipshit for doing that. Why?

  Well....I have to admit, at least Gumby's being diplomatic ("Maybe youre a....") about it...

  - Preston
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  jimakazi

  Yes but what about people who become JW's and then become irratating bastards by telling every one they know that they are going to die unless they join the borg? Actaully a great technique to issolate them from the "opposed" spouses and friends - leaving just the love bombing JW's to fill the empty spaces.

  I think those who escape and try to show the others what is wrong are much less irratating. I guess it's really irratating if in the deep recesses of a largely inactive JW brain there is the recognition that if they listen they too will leave, but they are in a comfrotable zone where all thinking is done for them, and armagedons just arround that never ending corner.
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  ballistic

  No I'm most definately not. Despite appearances I tread very carefully and diplomatically in these circles. And I am the first on here to admit that some people literally need the organisation, and I am thinking of a personal case of someone who is close to me.
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  blondie

  Yes but what about people who become JW's and then become irratating bastards by telling every one they know that they are going to die unless they join the borg?

  Many JWs don't like to see that either. I remember an older sister who said that newly baptized JWs should be locked up in a closet for the first year.

  Blondie
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  gumby

  Well, I guess alot of ya ain't bastards then...eh?

  Thanks for all your comments about this you guys as it gives an indication of how various lives go in dubland after exiting. Many here had their mates exit along side them, many left peaceably without bringing it up to family or friends that are still in the organisation, others never got/get the chance as they are shunned to the point that conversation is impossible.

  I was a bit nasty aboutn it when I first realised it wasn't the truth. I slammed my wife with everything I could think of mentioned in COC. It was my life, my world....all I knew. It broke my heart to learn what I learned and I couldn't be quiet about it at first. To be exact....I went off about three or four times within a couple of weeks, then I realised it did no good with my wife. Since I was already the bad guy for smoking and puffin on puff the magic dragon, my words didn't carry much weight. This isn't to say a "straight" apostate (non-druggie, screwer, smoker, etc.)...gets a listening ear.

  I guess perhaps when one mate is leaves and the other doesn't, the situation is a bit tougher than other family relations not involving the marriage partner. (not always though).

  Ozzie asked about the friend of mine in my experience I related,

  Just a thought: is it possible that the marriage break up has nothing to do with the borg at all?

  Ozmeister....they got along....but not great. She was an active person and he was a homebody and they had seperate lives. The trouble started when he left the organisation...then bombarded the family still active with letters against the witnesses. He didn't stop with that withy regards to his wife. The story I heard was he never let it rest. Like I say though, perhaps his story is different if and when I get to talk to him.

  Gumby