I had a
couple of elders come visit me about an hour ago. They wanted to inform me that
a brother who was well known throughout the circuit had died. (I actually knew
about it but did not go to the funeral) He was about to hit 90 years old,
missed it by a few weeks.
It’s kind of
a strange and sad story because when I came into the organization in my teens, (around
15 years old) this brother was giving talks in conventions, was the assembly
overseer, pioneering and doing everything he possibly could for the WTS. He lived a very simple and meager life
I’m in my 60s now and I saw this man and his
wife conscientiously do everything the WTS asked of him. They were not bad
people, they were very kind and honest. He was married at 18 and had a daughter
at 19. 16 years later the daughter was disfellowshipped and was never reinstated. Both he
and his wife shunned her all their life. She would call once a year, every New
Years- January, to see how they were doing. They would say; “We’re doing find”
and ask her if she was ready to come back to Jehovah’s organization. She would
say “No” and they would hang up on her. She had two brothers who are JWs. One
ran off with a non-jw married woman, and was reproved. These two brothers have also
shunned their sister all their lives. But she was the Firstborn.
I was told there
was over 300 Jws that attended the funeral, but the daughter was not there. I
asked the elders if they contacted the daughter to tell her that her father had
died. They said “NO” We are not under obligation to contact a disfellowship
person. They said, “She will have to
find out when she calls next January.”
Then they
said, “That what she gets for leaving Jehovah’s Organization.
I don’t feel
sorry for these people. Cult or no cult, normal human behavior tells you this
is wrong.
I hope they learn TTATT on the last 15 minutes
of their death bed.
