I was thinking about the WTBS this weekend as I mowed my lawn. They have taken so much from my family in the form of money and most importantly time, that I have developed a hatred for them.
As I cut the grass, burning gasoline and contaminating the air, I realized that the watchtower is loosing ground. Fortunatly for my family my mother married a worldly man. Yes the best husband and father in the world (in my opinion) is a worldy man, a non believing JW.
The chain of events that was set in motion by this action was more important than any one could have realized at the time. The way I see it is that the element of my fathers neutrality on religious issuses caused a crucial element of critical thinking in my self and my siblings that would be absent if he was a typical JDub. After all, if Jehovah is the only true God than why doesn’t dad come to the meetings? As a result my older sister, myself, and my younger brother have willfully turned our back on the WTBS. Absolutly none of my mothers offspring will carry on the WTBS’s teachings lies. I was a third generation JDud, and now their control over my family dies with my mother. Although the thought of my mother’s death is not one that I’m ready for at this particular moment, the peace I feel when I think about my children growing with my guidance unfiltered through WTBS’s lenses is overwhelming.