Some of you may know that my parents were expected for "dinner" on Thanksgiving day. Well I really don't think its going to happen now. I called my dad last night becuase my mother, now visiting my kids in South Texas and bringing them here to see me, said they had "stuff to do on Thursday". Well when I asked what that stuff was I was informed that they wouldn't be coming, most specificaly because I had been associating w/Apostates (what am I chopped liver?) and protesting the WTBTS publicly. I asked him how he knew and he was informed by the CO, which must have made him uncomfortable being an MS and all..eheh..Anyway, I told him there was no difference in my stand and those XJWs that I have made my friends. He then went on to say I was making it hard for him because both of his sons were going to die. I said huh? Oh you mean in Armageddon and he said "exactly"...I just had to laugh and ask him if he really thought he was going to live forever...again I couldn't help but laugh. He proceeded to ask me why I was so interested in it all and why I was hanging out w/ those as he put it "people who were mad at the organization because things didn't go their way". I went on to explain to him about the Silentlambs issues, which he claimed that something like that would never happen in his congregation (he got macho about it), the ludicrous notion of the blood doctrine, at which point he made it a point to tell me how important a part of the new covenant the abstinence from blood is (I could use some help w/this one for any of the scholarly class out there)...yeah right...I asked him if the entire congo would be informed of a pedophile in their presence...he said yes and that everyone would know anyway, because of the restrictions placed on them, but I dogged him on it and got him to admit that no they wouldn't warn the entire congo say at a meeting. I also mentioned the fact that I would by no means have my kids go to a KH again nor would I have them preached to EVER, which I could tell ruffled his feathers, as I mentoned to him that if he decided to cut me off then my children would not be accessible to either he or my mother. At this point I also gave him an earfull about shunning and then had to give him a lesson on the meaning of Apostate and that yes indeed I was one and that wasn't going to change. He maintains that shunning is a personal descision to which I retorted that if everything is a "personal descision" then why was it necessary to go to meeting 3 times a week? And furthermore, I finally admitted to him several things like the fact that I thought it was all crap from an early age and I absolutely hated going in service, not to mention studying. He said oh it only takes up about 5 hours a week....whatever dude. To make a long sad story short I don't think they will be coming for Thanksgiving, which would have been very cool and almost like having a real family for once. Thanks for listening and have a good day.
Sincerely,
District Overbeer