hopefully someone out there can help me with some advise or direction
I was raised JW and disassociated 30 years ago. my family all remains JW so I'm very used to all the usual "world is ending, you're going to die" rhetoric I've gotten from them over the years. But now they have reached a new level of distorted reality....
My 23 year old niece left the JW's about 4 yrs ago ,inactive status, and "fled" to another city to start a new normal life. I've been there for her to support her along in the de-programming needed and to help her feel that she really is good person,etc. having been through it all myself.
She went home to visit her two JW parents this weekend, my sister and brother-in-law, and she was extremely disturbed by their behavior.......
My brother-in -law is one of the remnant and claims that he is getting messages from an angel that says that my niece is pregnant and that the child, a boy, will be raised by them and then go to heaven to rule as a cherub. They also say that religion is going to be abolished by Bush and the world is ending this week and that angels will be here to help us run to the hills.
They said some other things that my poor niece can't even remember because she was in a state of shock and shaking from these illogical things her own parents were saying. Who WOULDN'T be freaked out?
If you ask me, my BIL is having audio hallucinations (he does have a family member who is schizophenic- is it genetic?). Why in the world my sister is listening to this, she used to be very level -headed, is anyone's guess. Maybe she is just tired of waiting all these years for the end of the world.
My niece also reports that a few other JW's drop in several night a week to "discuss prophesies". Sort of a cult in a cult type of thing.
My mother, a JW, is in the care of my sister and living with her as she has serious health problems. I wonder if she is "in" on this or if I should be concerned for her safety.
In California you can't involuntarlly hospitalize someone unless they are a danger to themselves or others. My neice is "safe" physically but not mentally in another town.
Should I call his congregation elders? would they tell him he's nuts and counsel him?
what should I do?