What FIRST got me thinking it wasn't the troof was when I was railroaded by overzealous elders who did an unethical investigation on me after I was reported to THREE CIRCUIT overseers for not paying taxes. I didn't file for 8 years, but they couldn't show me ONE law I was violating even though I offered them $1000 to do so. Then they write this letter do the society to see how to deal with me, (how about with love and kindness??), even though it wasn't a JC and I included my own letter. 4 pages single-spaced and typed, (before I had a computer).
I quoted the highest laws and courts in the land. I said I would have to lie to file. They came back and said they were familiar with my argument, but that it was UNREASONABLE without showing one law I was violating and that I would be basically a black sheep. Nice, now I heard they had a lawyer or two. Seems like if I was so stupid or unreasonable it would be easy to show me where. So now I have to LIE to be good standing is what they said in a roundabout way.
A couple of years later I got tired of fuming about it and wrote a letter demanding an apology for them slandering my good name and trying to mislead me. They wrote back and said they had no record of the letter. My parents said, "I doubt that they would ever apologize." I said what does that tell you then?
Then the Watchtower study about the generation thing and everyone answered like a bunch of 2nd grade robots. I decided not to live my life like a 2nd class citizen when I hadn't done anything wrong. Quit going and read CofC and I was history, thank God, after 35 torturous years. By the way, I now file taxes and lie my ass off so should be qualified to pass a mike.
Lyle
