Warning: No diving at this end of the gene pool! .. boring personal family stuff ahead!
g'day,
I have a mother, five sisters and a brother. My mother and three of my sisters are still active Jehovah's Witnesses as are various cousins and once or twice removed relatives ;) When I made it clear I no longer believed the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to be supreme font of all wisdom they were shattered. All thier cult induced mind control screamed at them to shut off all association with me but each of them for seperate and deep psychological reasons still clings to my love like the neglected children i've sometimes had grab my leg for security and comfort.*
Anyway, my eldest daughter Amy (the blonde witch of gothic lane) writes to all the relatives and yesterday recieved one from my younger sister Jo'anne. In it was a side note addressed to me which said she was 'stronger than ever in the truth' and enjoying witnessing with Susan Bird, the wife of an old friend of mine. She then yabbered on a bit about material things (jws are so materialistic it's not funny! lol) and closed by saying her only begotton son Nicky Wicky (on whose birth i sent gold frankinsence and myrr .. fair dinkum .. she reconded he was gods gift to the world .. mm she stopped sending me photos of him after that .. i have more photos of Jo'annes pregnant stomach than i have of my own kids! .. Jo'anne is obsessive compulsive or whatever.) .. spends most of his time in his bedroom playing on his new computer. (you thinking what i'm thinking?)
Me thinks young Nephew Nicky Wicky's gonna need some help escaping Watchtower World one day and Jo'anne has just given him the tool to do it. He's only a 12 year old and knowing my slack family he probably hasn't been dunked yet, but I can't see his computer staying offline for long. I've kept my distance so far but this gives me new hope that this unc might just have some input over the family yet .. mm wonder if any of my jw relies do email?
Hang on Nieces and Nephews, unc is on the way! Ten years ago, with the help of Steve Hassans excellent book "Combatting Cult Mind Control" i helped clear several of my sisters heads of watchtowerisms. I think it's seed speading time again and I want to thank everyone who reads this for the wonderful help you've been in typing to Simons board and elswhere on the net.
You people are No1. DeCreme dele Crem (DaCream Deli Cream?)
cheers, unclebruce.
*a little kid did that the other day and although i laughed at the time it bought back sad memories of working with orphans a few years back. I was in a shop and my attention was trapped by a little black boy standing there staring up at me. There he was giving my bearded face a good going over with a very serious look ... I averted my gaze and wished real hard "please for gods sake don't cry!" then he thudded into me and clung to my leg with all his 4 year old might. LOL It actually felt awkward .. now my babies are turning into women i'm getting out of touch with how to handle little people.