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The first thing I noticed is that the elders are robots. No human caring, hugs, no 'I love you, brother,' nothing.
Presented with a human being in emotional crisis less than a foot away, their response is robotic repetition of JW buzz words and phrases. Period.
*The most important thing I learned from these videos is that a person in a judicial committee is presumed guilty of being unrepentant.
The burden is on the accused to prove to the elders beyond a reasonable doubt that they are repentant, repentant enough, and repentant for the correct thing.
any doubt at all = the elders must find the person unrepentant and DF them.
* What is up with the little 'kindnesses' the elders offer? "You may turn the light on in the other room if that makes you more comfortable." WTF? Well thank you so much! It's like the creators of the video felt they had to put some sort of kind gesture in the videos, and THAT was the best they could come up with. Seriously? That is the best they could do?
* Someone tells you they are so sad and in so much pain that they want to die, so you tell them they should not feel so sad and leave them in a dark room alone. WTF?
Again, no 'I love you', 'we love you', 'we are there for you'. No getting someone to sit with her, to listen to her. nothing. just a dark room, alone. And some guilt ('You shouldn't be so sad')
* Later, the sad sister tells a pair of elders that she has a 'devastating hollow void inside' and that she is thinking of killing herself.
In response, the elder smiles (WTF?) and thanks her for feeling comfortable enough to tell him this.
WTF? What is she supposed to say? 'You're welcome'? Did she do them some kind of favor?
Next, the elder's advice for dealing with devistating suicidal depression is to be a good JW (be an 'integrity keeper')...that is it. It is like they are more worried they might lose a JW member more than they are worried she might lose her life.
Stuff the depression and focus on being a JW! That is the answer!
Then they say to treat your sad, suicidal thoughts as if they are immoral thoughts! Great idea, add a big giant pile of guilt on top of those suicidal thoughts! Now you are not just suicidal, now you are also IMMORAL
No mention of seeing professional. Those arrogant smiling men think they think they saved this sister's life, as you can see they smile and thank Jehovah at the end of the video. Yet they didn't even ASK her what she really thinks about anything they said and have no idea about her true feelings at the moment. If she still feels suicidal, that would be immoral, so she can't really tell them anything but what they want to hear.
It is completely unsafe for her to share with them anything other than possitive reaction to their 'help' and she will probably not speak with them again and they will count that as some kind of success...if of course, she survives. If she kills herself that will be on her, of course, for not being an 'integrity keeper'...so even in that event the elders can still sleep soundly knowing they have done all they could.
Dumbasses. Dangerous, irresponsible, dumbasses.
They have blood on their cold, robotic hands.
