Your input on "Brother X" and the eld...

by biblexaminer 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • biblexaminer
    biblexaminer

    There is a "brother" in our hall, or rather ..there WAS a "brother", or more exactly, there was a guy who was studying hard and was already being called "brother" but who was not yet baptised, ...in our hall, who is MR. Internet Guru. This guy lives and breathes internet... it's his job.

    Anyway, every meeting I went to, and saw this guy still warming his chair, was a surprise to me. I would go to the hall and on the way in I would ask myself "is he still going?" It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like watching a twenty dollar bill on a busy sidewalk and being continually surprised that it was still there, day after day, meeting after meeting.

    I would ask myself "when is this guy gonna click his mouse onto a forbidden site?" I couldn't understand how he could have gone on that long. On the one hand, he spends all his time on the internet. On the other, he's "luvin the bro's and the meets".

    Anyway, he quit! FINALLY...

    But... the "bro's" are visiting him, gonna try to make him forget.... "look into my eyes Mr. X... watch the nice swinging watch"

    Question. Do you think the elders can effectively "rework" him?

    Will he be just dumb enough to come back and get baptised?

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    Hi Examiner,
    How's the book study going? My sympathies. I've been in and around the Borg for more than 40 years, and I can't recall the JWs having ever succeded in ``reactivating'' someone once they were made privy to the inner workings and the Society's unvarnished history. Any such confirmed ``restoration to one's sense'' would,I'm sure, have been loudly trumpet in print and on assembly programs.
    In fact, it's far more likely that, in the attempt to do so, the sincere but uninformed JW would be ``blindsided;'' woefully unprepared to deal with the barrage of hard but fair questions raised by the strayed sheep, and seriously disquieted by the experience.

  • Francois
    Francois

    You wouldn't have his email address by any chance?

    Where it is a duty to worship the Sun you can be sure that a study of the laws of heat is a crime.

  • biblexaminer
    biblexaminer

    I wonder about the possible success of "re-activating" him. He hasn't been in the Org long enough to be able to be made really sick from a dose of truth.

    I look at it this way. If they got him once, they might just get him again. He wouldn't ever be a "good dub", always questioning etc.. and he would probably once again quit, but not before wasting some years off his life.

    He might be just gullible enough to be convinced to get baptised. I don't think he's the most luminous of the lamps on the lighting dept.

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