The Unkindest Cut: Hateful Words from JWs that Show Their True Colours

by Scully 58 Replies latest jw friends

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  Scully

  I decided to start this topic when ozziepost shared the experience of a Bethel representative telling him and Mrs. Ozzie

  "And don't forget, we've got your children!" !!!

  It's important for us to hear these experiences and to share them with each other. It helps us tear down the mistaken beliefs that the incidents that happen to us are not isolated ones, but are in fact par for the course when one parts ways with the JWs and WTS. It helps us recognize that the Organization™ as a whole is beyond repair, that there is - at its core - no love for the Sheep™ on the part of the Shepherds™.

  I know I've read several of these experiences that amount to pivotal moments for individuals. They are the lashings that make us decide, once and for all, that we can no longer in good conscience remain associated with the JWs or WTS. I would like to start a thread devoted solely to this phenomenon, a collection of these events in one place that will stand as a testimony to the hatefulness we have walked away from.

  Once again, I will share my own experience: I had been suffering from severe postpartum depression and felt overburdened by the JW lifestyle. I called a JW-sister whom I had, up until that time, considered to be my best friend. We went out for coffee to a busy restaurant. I poured my heart out to her, and told her that I felt like a sheep being attacked by vicious wolves. Instead of comforting me, she looked me straight in the eye and said in the most arrogant and hateful tone:

  "If you are going to turn your back on The Truth™, you may as well take your three beautiful children out in the back yard and blow their heads off with a gun. That way they won't go down with you at Armageddon and will have a resurrection in the Paradise."

  That was my pivotal moment, it happened almost 10 years ago, and the memory is as clear now as if it had just happened. At that instant, I knew I could never have anything to do with the JWs ever again.
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  calico

  "If you are going to turn your back on The Truth™, you may as well take your three beautiful children out in the back yard and blow their heads off with a gun. That way they won't go down with you at Armageddon and will have a resurrection in the Paradise."

  Wow--that is sick--some friend! I suppose she thought that statement would shock you back to "correct thinking" it's still sick!
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  DannyHaszard

  Scully you are strong,hateful words indeed.-Danny
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  blondie

  I wonder if these people realize how unchristian they sound? It makes me realize how the lack of love in the WTS is not a surface problem of a few people, but is the core personality of the majority and the few that aren't are afraid to rock to boat (until they can't swallow it any more).

  Blondie
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  stillajwexelder

  LOVE THINE ENEMIES JESUS TAUGHT - SO JWS CAN NOT BE CHRISTIAN
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  RunningMan

  I was also told that I was murdering my children, although the elder who said it (who just happens to be married to my cousin) very quickly moved on to another topic when he noticed that I was about to murder him, first.
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  greendawn

  That statement clearly comes from a fanatical and semi ignorant person. The WTS several times came close to saying that they wish to see the apostates dead. But because they can't do it they try to treat them as if they are dead and await on their executioner god jehovah to finish them off. That is hateful and sick.
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  DannyBloem

  That is really a sick thing to say.

  Some JW's are really ignorant and sick in their head, and have not such love etc.
  Some others are wonderfull people, kind with true love in their heart.

  I think we should not judge all individuals on what some say or do
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  Frannie Banannie

  Thanks, Scully! We can use this topic to each one relate their own pivotal experience(s) for all to see the extreme lack of love and love for hatred within the WTS and fostered by the WTS.

  Several experiences and things said and done were pivotal for me.

  1. My oldest son, though not baptised, was DF'd from our cong. and the WTS even though he was in absentia and had no say-so in the matter. The elders didn't even discuss this matter with me nor with him.

  2. After an auto accident due to low blood sugar on my part, when I was temporarily disabled and without transportation to even go to the meetings, no one EVER came to see about us, yet when I asked for help simply to transfer our belongings to another residence when I was being evicted because I couldn't work at the time, I was visited by elders who told me, "You got yourself into this mess, you can get yourself out."

  3. My youngest son and I both witnessed (along with the entire congregation) a public dF'ing talk wherein the PO totally, graphically described the act of fornication for which a young pioneer sister was being ousted, while she sat sobbing in front of the KH, and the young brother was merely publicly reprooved.

  4. My youngest son was promised he would be taken out in field service by an elder, who showed up 1 1/2 hrs late in a small car full of pioneers, while his "showboat" luxury car sat in the KH parking lot. He told my son they didn't have room for him. My son had stood in the freezing rain without a coat and waited that 1 1/2 hrs for the elder.

  5. My daughter was dF'd for fornication even though she wept and told the elders how sorry she was and that they had gotten married. I suppose that's why the NWT has the story in John, Chapter 8 in fine print about Jesus saving the adultress from being stoned....so they can minimize the importance of showing mercy....and not shed light on the fact that they're NOT without sin.

  Frannie
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  fullofdoubtnow

  Oh Scully, how low can anyone stoop? It's a pity you didn't record that conversation and play it back to people thinking of joining this hateful cult. The elders and others had more than a few harsh words with me when I was leaving, but to say such a thing is truly despicable. That sister should have been thoroughly ashamed of herself.

  Linda