Real Elder,
The fact that you come here to try and understand what happens to a JW after they are given the ax is commendable if that is your real purpose. If your recently gained insights are exclusively for the use of helping those that are still in the organization then again your efforts in that specific regard are commendable. Helping is helping no matter what your specific agenda is and it should be applauded. BUT, at what cost are you willing to continue this walk on the dark side? Besides setting yourself up to look like the most understanding and compassionate elder in all of JWdom what exactly do you think is
in it for all us poor unfortunate exJW's? Do you think by your comments given to us by a voice on the other side of the fence is going to bring us any comfort or ease the pain we have endured through the years wondering if our mommys and daddys still love us? Do you think your one single scrap of perceived compassion is going to change one tiny little thing in the world of absolute watchtower control? Do you think any of us are going to have one single speck of joy contemplating a thought that there is at least one little elder that just might understand our feelings and may possibly go a bit lighter on one of his little sheep the next time they take a tiny step over the line?
You said you would tell someone's mother to go see her disfellowshipped daughter while she is in the hospital. That is quite kind of you handing out a hall pass like that. What about the other 364 days of the year? Do you immediately revert back to the watchtower societies tool of discipline at that point? Have you read one single thread on this board that you would have to say the poster deserves a life sentience of being exiled from the love of their mother and father? Have we committed such unconscionable crimes that we deserve to lay lifeless in a grave of psychological death cut off from our flesh and blood
loved ones because some grumpy old men decided we just might cause one of their robots to falter? If you really want to help your sheep take a deeper look at Bill and the Silent Lambs situation. There is a man who is helping.
My mom is dyeing and I have seen her three times in seventeen years thanks to the love and kindness of your beloved organization. When she does pass I am not even going to think about going to the funeral and have a group of pseudo compassionate men in JC Penny suits tell me where I can and can not sit. Your beloved organization has kidnapped my mothers love and held it for a ransom payable by me just by saying "I was wrong and you were right". Screw that and screw them! My only crime that condemned me to this state of being is saying I don't agree. If that is a crime to god then in my opinion there is no god. Do you honestly believe that all this misery and all this pain is just because a few million people want to continue to believe that a talking snake told a naked lady to eat a piece of fruit? Help your little sheep and sleep tonight knowing you try and be the best shepherd that you can be. Just don't fuck with our lives in the process and don't pretend for a second that you give a rats ass about any of us. I for one aint buying it.
Dave