How's this for emotional blackmail; they sent the brothers who had dug my mum's grave to my work, who asked me. as I served customers, how was Mum going to feel when she was ressurected, and I wasn't there!!!!!
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Emotional Blackmail and ex-JWs
by Lady Lee inbased on a discussion last night and a request to write something about it i went hunting through some old posts and found this one.
emotional blackmail and jws.
we were discussing whether it is emotional abuse when the elders visit us after we have left and wind up being nasty or try to pressure us to go back.. so i was thinking - what are some of their tactics and would they fit into this category?.
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A POLL! How long did your "re-evaluation" take?
by Gayle infrom beginning to end, how long did it take you, when you first started your personal questioning and re-evaluating the watchtower organization and concluding that the wts was definitely not true?
my sister is asking this.
some of us (who left a couple decades ago - pre-internet) are saying it took about 10 years on average.
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boopoopidoo
I first started to have my doubts as a child, but would never have aired them. I could see pockets of hypocrisy within the congregation, but felt that I was too young to question 'the truth'. I lost my beautiful Witness mum to cancer aged 13 and that's when the hypocrisy from congregation members really kicked in. (Abusive Witness step-father. Another thread!)
It was in my early teens that I jealously watched older teens leave, knowing that I would leave one day. I did, 2 days after my 18 birthday, 17th July 1986. Hard to say how long the re-evaluation took, because it was such a gradual process.
The guilt lingered though and I often wonder if I would have been able to leave so easily if I still had Mum. (I have come to the point where I think that she would have left by now too, as her best friend (an elder) has seen the light).