Or similar questions by the elders?  Were you asked something similar and how did you answer?

Why do you ask?

Do you?

Blondie

 

Sorry confusedjw, the important thing to remember it is more important to consider yourself a Christian.

I am just looking for responses that will deflect the elders and not put a current JW in judicial hot water.

(hugs)

Blondie

AH, that's similar old pivot point of my last JC.

You see, because I have family in the Borg, I decided not to DA myself and to try and avoid Dfing, as it would have left the situation more open to cultish programmed behaviour on part of my family.

I admitted (after about eight months of not going to meetings) to adultery. Queue the JC. I said I regretted it. They said come back to the meetings. I said I didn't feel ready for that at that point. They said that unless I showed repentence they'd DF me. I pointed out the WT article where it more-or-less states that if you're inactive for over six months you can't really call yourself a JW anymore (as you're not Witnessesing), and that if I wasn't a JW they couldn't really DF me.

I think if the combined IQ of the three men had been over 200 I'd have ended up DF'd anyway. But it wasn't.

 

 

 

Dude, you been watching WAY too many splatter films!!!

One did ask me that about a year and a half ago.  I said "Do you think of us as one of Jehovah's witnesses?"  He said "yes" and the other elder said "no".

So, I said............"why did it take you so many years to check on us, if you think of us as JW's".  To the other one I said "if you don't think of us as JW's, then why are you here?"

We still aren't df'd.

EXCELLENT, Mulan!

One for the Hot Files.

 

Blondie

Perhaps, you could say that you are th King of the North and that you have an army to lead.  Then they just might thing you are crazy and leave you alone.

I don't think there'd be a long list!

I like Mulan's rejoinder. Just brilliant!

Cheers, Ozzie

No

 

experience has taught me the following:

....." of course I love Jehovah and consider myself a witness ....I am going through a low spiritual time"; that will get them off your back..

I have learned from personal experience that you will not win any confrontations-so do not waste your time.  Tell them what they want to hear and plan a slow exit.  Keep your distance from them and always  "have other plans" if they try to schedule a meeting with you. If they come to your door unnannounced simple say " bad time" and close the door.

It worked for me until they decided to come after me with Judicial meetings about "drugs" and "fornication" ( totally fabricated). So I hired a lawyer and began a harrassment suit (not against Watchtower; against the elders personally).  They backed off fast.  I suppose I followed President Teddy Roosevelts advice to " talk softly and carry a big stick".