Poor Kelpie........damned if you do & damned if you don't.
If you do go back.....your free conscience & mind is damned to a lying existence - as JT said. And your setting an example for your children.
They said that they would not reconsider a reinstatement unless he attended the meetings regularly, went out in field service again and abided by all the rules and regulations of the organization. They asked him specifics. For example, they asked him whether he would a withhold blood transfusions from his children in an emergency situation. - another poster up above
That's the way it is around here. And if you're labeled an apostate? You're worse....you didn't make a mistake......you defied Jehovah knowingly. You're not to be trusted.
If you don't go back....your blinded JW family damns you.
But remember this, Kelpie.....you are a FINE EXAMPLE to your neices & to your sister & to your mother IF you don't crawl back like a "dog returning to his vomit." You're free.....and on some level, at least your sister suspects that.
Don't underestimate your mother. I was her about 5 yrs back - but at a family funeral when my df'd daughter & her fiance attended. Our immediate family had never shunned her......but ALL in the congregation did & the fools even shunned her fiance - and he really tried to make friends with some there. He (Methodist) was stunned & furious. He had never met a group of such treacherous people.
It was a terrible day for me - and I suspect I was as crushed as your mother. Two years later, my husband & I slunk away from the WT......and my daughter & her husband were there to be our friends. So were my other children - thank god we weren't good jw parents
Don't underestimate your power, Kelpie.
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