JWs Love It When Something Bad Happens To Ones Who Have Left The "Truth"

by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  
  The JWs you leave behind have to believe that JWs who have left must be miserable waiting for the hammer to fall. When that is not the case, then they wonder why they should stay.

  But it works both ways, if you are happy, Satan is bribing you, if you are miserable, Satan is causing that too. Either way you are in Satan's control, supposedly.

  Remember these are the same people that reason with an abused wife that if she leaves who will provide for the children and that she might succumb to adultery. As if an abusive husband is providing for the family and she is getting her sexual desires fulfilled by her abusive husband.

  Blondie

  Don't worry, be happy.

  Remember that song? I was watching a collage of scenes from Katrina with that as a background.

  http://www.superlaugh.com/1/behappy.htm

  The best revenge is to succeed.
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  steve2

  Essentially this boils down to one key thought: JWs have an obsessive answer for every conceivable outcome, good, bad or indifferent. It's called, needing to always be right.
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  PaulJ

  They like to wag their finger....
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  Golf

  Who is anyone to "Call down evil upon others?" Are they not stepping out of bounds, who appointed them judges?
  
  
  Golf
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  diamondblue1974

  Yeah I know exactly what you all mean...I was in a supermarket some months back and on the off chance I met someone I knew way back when I used to attend the meetings; she mentioned that she had married an elder from another congregation and we made small talk as you do...she asked me whether I was still going to the meetings...and I promptly told her that I would sooner boil my testicles than step foot in a Kingdom Hall again; to which she looked quite surprised and promptly retorted with an air of superiority 'well you cant be happy then'.
  What complete and utter crap; I put her straight in that I had never been happier to which she nearly ran a mile...its the positive thinking they cannot handle; everything is doom and gloom underneath that so called happy exterior; they cant begin to see what life is like outside of their own little world.
  A side issue here though is that when I knew this woman from years gone by she was vibrant and energetic (she never was the good little dub) but when I saw her in the supermarket she was shrivelled up (well beyond her years) and very quietly spoken and appeared if I make the assumption, very downtrodden....apparently as mentioned previously she has married an elder....I say nothing more!!!!
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  Gill

  Sadly true, Minimus! Yet, when I see the JWs, i used to know they are a miserable looking bunch. They're either sick, disillusioned or on anti depressants. I know a lot of JWs and get to hear 'what's going on in the cong'.

  Those who have left the JWs are, of the ones I am aware of, doing better for themselves and have fuller lives. Apparantly they have fallen victim to the 'snare of Satan's system'. As my parents tell me, 'Now you're a friend of Satan, he will reward you.....till Armageddon comes.'

  Mooses!
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  Honesty

  i wouldnt act that way defd

  That's because you are a human who can still think for yourself. Besides the fact that you not a blinded, brain-dead elder wannabe like most of the male JW's.
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  Balsam

  Someone I remember when I was a JW. This JW gal who had been left by her husband for another woman was coming to meetings, doing everything she was suppose to and more. Then one day this sister decided to date a worldly man from her job who persistently persued her. She agonized over the rightness of dating him, then he asked her to marry him. I never saw her again at another meeting, she quit, married him and disappeared. She still lived in town all those years but we never saw her. I heard from her sister the man she married was quite prosperous and she lacked for nothing. I told her sister I missed seeing her. Well one day she died and the funeral was going to be handled by a local minister not a brother. 15 years had passed from the time she had left the meetings. My then JW husband and I went over to the funeral home and not one JW from her family were there, which totally confused us. Everyone around us spoke so loving of her, how she helped people and was such a good friend to everyone she met. I heard one couple say that her Husband had said she was the love of his life and how empty life would be without her. But there must have been 300 people there who seemed to know and love her. I marveled but we obviously were out of place and left without meeting her husband. We talked about her wondering if she had gone on to this church that conducted her funeral. Her JW family said almost nothing about her. She was never disfellowshipped and nothing was ever said about her attending another church.

  It was at that point I began to realize that she had been perfectly happy without the JW religion and I wondered how she did it. She kind of haunted me, she was always such a gentle and kind person at the hall when she used to come. Now I understand, she had realized that God was not exclusive to JW she had gotten free. She never fell on hard times, she was happy, loved and obviously lived a blessed life. And I realized how we view ex-witnesses was largely inaccurate. But the brothers and the organization encouraged us to look down on everyone who left as lost. We're not lost, our eyes have been opened and we feel free. Like anyone of the JW we can fall on hard times, but it has nothing to do with us leaving the JW religion. I saw plenty JW who suffered terribly through financial difficulties and we never said they were spiritually weak, but let an ex JW fall on hard times Satan has them. It is purely silly.

  Balsam