lately i have been thinking about saying something apostate to my elder father in law.
he is an uber witness and actually believed that god interveined and saved him when he had a heart attack and kept him alive, until he told me that and i asked him why jehovah allowed jws in nazi concentration camps to suffer horribly and die but he loved an alcoholic more than them.. i havent been to a kh in 6 months or in service in years.
i grew a beard and basicallyhe avoids talking to me.
I would say disassociate yourself, it allows you to create the exit rather than them.
I actually DF myself on purpose. I refused to meet with them, I told them I didn't want to be a JW and I had serious problems with their religion. They kept telling me I needed to come back. I stopped taking their calls, and they sent me a certified letter. If I had to do it over again, I would have disassociated myself or just slipped into the night.
my jw grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with alzhemers disease.
she suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so i am happy she is at peace.
as i mentioned my brother died a short three months ago.
Update:
I decided to go, the JWs be damned. I came with friends, I felt defiant. This religion was not going to keep me from mourning my grandmother.
I came in, I sat next to my family on the front row. I refused to sing a song or open a bible, but I cried for my grandmother.
Surprisingly enough, it all went pretty well. I was greeted and hugged by all. My family consoled me, hugged me, cried with me, and when it was over JW or not they came by me and hugged me, kissed me, and told me how sorry they were with a few exceptions.
Yes, the "memorial service" was more about a sermon about their ideology than about my grandmother, but my second cousin gave the talk and he managed to talk a little bit more about my grandmother than probably most other memorials.
After it was over, they went to their funeral events, and I went with my friends to visit my grandparents house, take pictures, and we had a wonderful lunch remembering my grandmother in a loving fashion.
I'm not sure why it went the way it did, but I am glad there wasn't any issues. I really loved my grandmother, the JW religion or not, and I am glad I was allowed to mourn her without any unnecessary drama.
watchtower wrong about noah and blood.
today i added a new article to my blog addressing underpinning watchtower plies to validate its blood taboo.
as it turns out, watchtower must think that two wrongs make a right!
"Fred was a provocateur to the cost of human lives, my father among the thousands who have died from lack of a blood transfusion.
Christians in Europe made the charge that Jews were eating children yet Christian's own blood festival, Communion, was perfectly fine to them, they couldn't see the irony."
My step brother died many years ago because of the JW doctrine on blood transfusions. It is so interesting to see how they have "update" their stand, but that doesn't bring back the people who lost their life. They have a lot of blood (no pun) on their hands!
my jw grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with alzhemers disease.
she suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so i am happy she is at peace.
as i mentioned my brother died a short three months ago.
Thank you all for your kind words, encouragement, and advice.
They have decided to cremate her. It seems this is the going trend for JWs and death.
We are a special group and without the understanding of people who have went through things like this, it would be much more difficult.
I haven't totally decided yet what I am going to do. I may attend, I may just do something on my own to remember her by with my friends.
my jw grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with alzhemers disease.
she suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so i am happy she is at peace.
as i mentioned my brother died a short three months ago.
My JW grandmother passed away last night after a long battle with Alzhemers Disease. She suffered a lot at the end of her life, a shell of who she ounce was, so I am happy she is at peace. As I mentioned my brother died a short three months ago. It has been a difficult time for everyone. But as an "outsider", a "former JW", who hasn't been a Witness since the age of 18, I dread these situations because it highlights how the religion causes unnecessary drama and headache in already sad situation.
Of course I will have to attend the Kingdom Hall. Out of respect I will do it, although I dread it with everything in me. I will see a good portion of my family, HALF will even refuse to acknowledge my existence. WHY? Because I choose to not believe in their religion. I will see friends I grew up with who will act like a dog on the street deserves more acknowledgement than me. RIGHT? And then finally I will have to sit in front on an elder preach on the JOYS OF DEATH and how she is "saved" and will live again in a Paradise on earth. I will try to do this without making any vomit sounds out of my mouth. Afterwards everyone will go to their funeral dinners, I will have to drive back home (over 3 hours) without any further interaction with family or former friends.
No one can tell that JW doesn't break up and destroy families. No one.
these are notes passed on to me, i thought i would share.. .
be successful in coping with change.
special talk given after watchtower study at brooklyn bethel december 5, 2011. monday night - monday night we had a special lecture to attend after study of the watchtower entitled "be successful in coping with change".
Metatron, I liked your translation!!
i am compelled to ask, are we seeing a new effort in apologia by jehovah's witnesses?.
perhaps it is just the vain, 'last-ditch' efforts of a few to defend this sick, unloving cult.
efforts to disprove over 130 years of false promises.
I would start a new topic, but that's another inquiry I had, where is all the money going??? Now, I can hypothesize that there are a few select beneficiaries, but I would love to hear from those that have done research or can give their own perspective.
so i talked to my dear aunt who is disfellowshipped but still has to interact with my elderly jw witness and masquerading jw aunt (really doesn't agree with the jw doctrine, but lives with my grandmother to take care of her) and she told me that there are now two watchtowers published, one that they use for congregation and the other for their "field service".. why do you suppose they are really doing that?
is it because they are trying to keep things from the public eyes?
i was really surprised to hear that..
I don't think the member's realize how they are being indoctrinated with these cult techniques, which are buzz words that keep their followers blinded and following their "masters". Once I started reading up on the behaviors of cult indoctrination, it followed the practices of the JW "religion" to a T. Very interesting.
i am now officially by being announced at congregation level that i am no longer one of jehovahs wihtnesses.
that news spread like wild fire and i was dropped by all jw's on facebook, which shows the level of control the borg has in this area.
what is interesting is there was no juducial committee.
Welcome to the REAL WORLD! (My favorite line from "The Matrix")
You will learn to interact through life with a no-holds barred mindset. It won't be easy, but it will be freeing.
I am glad there are places like this for people to come and help each other.
so i talked to my dear aunt who is disfellowshipped but still has to interact with my elderly jw witness and masquerading jw aunt (really doesn't agree with the jw doctrine, but lives with my grandmother to take care of her) and she told me that there are now two watchtowers published, one that they use for congregation and the other for their "field service".. why do you suppose they are really doing that?
is it because they are trying to keep things from the public eyes?
i was really surprised to hear that..
So I talked to my dear Aunt who is disfellowshipped but still has to interact with my elderly JW witness and masquerading JW Aunt (really doesn't agree with the JW doctrine, but lives with my grandmother to take care of her) and she told me that there are now two Watchtowers published, one that they use for congregation and the other for their "field service".
Why do you suppose they are really doing that? Is it because they are trying to keep things from the public eyes? I was really surprised to hear that.
