I suspect you have also
felt all of these ways, simultaneously. I believe you have overstepped because
a narrow spectrum of emotion surged to the surface in you, for a moment, and
you rationalized a basis for that to be regarded as the "right way"
to feel. When someone else has different emotions surge to the surface, that
doesn't make their resulting perspectives wrong, or deserving of any correction
at all. – Afterburn
Afterburn, The problem
with the above logic is that by that reasoning you can excuse any behaviour
that an ex-jw displays towards a JW. Because surge of emotions can get better
of us. Few months ago, an ex-jw wrote a post of how he followed and yelled at
two elderly JW ladies going door-to-door. There were people on the forum that
supported his actions saying that since he was hurt by the Watchtower, it was
fine if yelling at them made him feel better.
Then there was a post a put up by a guy who
clicked a JW sipping coffee while his cart was packed up nearby, showing he had
finished his cart witnessing for the day.
Instantly everyone started commenting on how that JW should have been
preaching and not drinking coffee, while it was clear that he had finished his
cart work and was likely waiting for someone.
I don’t believe that my
feelings are right and others are wrong. I have lived a JW life myself in all
capacities within the organisation, so I know how about all the negative
aspects of the organisation. In fact, when I was a teen, i was myself thrown
before a committee based on what another ‘sister’ saw me doing. The entire
incident had a terrible impact on me and my life then, showing the folly of
assuming things that we don’t really know anything about.
Years later, when i became
an elder myself, i could see how fellow elders basically write a three page
fictional story based on one photo or statement made by a witness in a case. It
was like a palaeontologist constructing an entire dinosaur based on a partial
jaw bone. I have seen lives wrecked because of this, and that I try to caution anyone
who does it. I can understand the surge of emotion, but I feel constraining it
and channelling it towards what really matters is something that we all have to
learn, or else, we basically become the parallel version of the cult that we
left. More worse, we become what the WT wants us to become.
If you feel otherwise,
then more power to you.
