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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

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  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  Hello again, we had a showing at the funeral home on the first day, that was a Monday. The visitation went from 4pm to 8pm with a prayer service at 7pm. That would have given the JW's three hours to pay respects with no service going on. They should have shown there respects.

  I did have one lady write to me and say that if I wanted the witnesses there I should not have planned anything other than having some people from the Hall do a "memorial". That makes sense but no matter what kind of service she had the next day they still could have came to the funeral the night before. I go to visitations for many different faiths, not just my faith.
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  The one person who showed up gave us a card with $10.00 in it. My first thought was I should send a thank you and tell them the money was going to be used for mass. Then I thought it over and sent the person a thank you and told them that they were the only Witness at the wake or funeral. I thanked them for coming and said that they should be very proud of themselves for coming and that Mom would have been proud they were there also. Hopefully some day I will hear from them saying that they left that cult. That religion is really a mess...........
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  No JWs in sight....what happened to them?

  by kid-A in

  1. jw
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  i have been living in my new house since november.

  i have been home every weekend, saturday and sunday mornings.

  i live in a big city, in a densely housed area.. there has not been a single jw door-knocker this entire time!!!!

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  DaveNwisconsin

  There should be a way one can ban them from coming to our homes anyhow. Why would I want to buy a magazine from people dressed like Stepford wives?
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  I am ok anewme, I don't want to be a JW. When I turned 40 I thought its time to get involved in a religion and chose Catholic because the rest of my family came from the church. I know its not perfect, I don't blindly take everything they say either. I sing in the choir in my church and do solo work there too as a canter. Canters lead the assembly in song. There is no fear of me getting involved with the JW's and sights like this one will keep me away from that! I do respect other religions not like our Jw's people practice.
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  Sometimes I wonder maybe if I did say something like that if maybe I could get lucky and get one to start thinking on there own.
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  No JWs in sight....what happened to them?

  by kid-A in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have been living in my new house since november.

  i have been home every weekend, saturday and sunday mornings.

  i live in a big city, in a densely housed area.. there has not been a single jw door-knocker this entire time!!!!

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  DaveNwisconsin

  Give em a call I bet they would be right over............Ding Dong!
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  Just read article on watchtower.org that convinced me they have the truth

  by joelbear in

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  http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/3/22/article_01.htm

  clearly they are god's organization

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  DaveNwisconsin

  One time I ate too much chocolate and let me tell you the results left me on the toilet for hours. What a burn!
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  Luna I really liked your advice!
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  What surprises me is that the JW's that I work with still talk to me. Do you think I should ask them about all of this? They know I am not interested in becoming a JW. But my Mother was good to each and every one of them. I was ok with them not being there at first but now a few months have gone by and I am thinking that they screwed her memory. That burns me up!
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  Why did the JW's Shun my mother at her funeral?

  by DaveNwisconsin in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  my mom had died on december 9, 2005. she had been loyal to that religion for 35 years.

  she had been in a nursing home for the last two years.

  some of the old ladies would come and mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile.

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  DaveNwisconsin

  My Mom had died on December 9, 2005. She had been loyal to that religion for 35 years. She had been in a nursing home for the last two years. Some of the old ladies would come and Mom would still write a letter to a "not at home" once and awhile. She was in good standing. The rest of my family, (three brothers and a sister), didn't want her burried in that faith. We had to put up with the Faith Talk at my fathers funeral back in 1995 and didn't want to hear theirk story of death. We thought about having a private funeral so as to not deal with the witnesses but chose to have a wake service one day, then the next day a funeral at my Catholic church. My priest was totally fine with the idea so we went ahead with it. Even though we were not 100% keen on the idea of seeing all her witness friends, we thought that they would come to the wake and not the funeral. Anyhow out of the hundreds of witness friends she had only one came. I even work with two witnesses who both knew her and didn't show. I want to ask one of them what happened but haven't gotten my nerves up to do it yet. So did they punished my Mother by not showing up? I think its very sad that they still couldn't show there respect during the average wake service. To me it speaks volumes about the people she knew, what are your thoughts? I could see they were upset with the family, but they never even honored her. Isn't that sad?