.............it was a VERY strange experience to say the least.
This friend was raised by a dub mother who believes she's anointed. Her mother is quite mad but seems to get away with it.
My friend (we'll call her Mary) left home and her dub lifestyle when she was a teenager, met a guy, got pregnant and had a child. They broke up. Mary did all the wild stuff for several years until she met another guy at work. Neither dubs at this stage, but she starts to live with him and mum must have persuaded her to 'come back'. Mary started to study and got her new b/friend (we'll call him Joseph) to as well. They both progressed, got married and then baptized.
Mary and Joseph have a child together, do all the right things, go witnessing, all meetings, bookstudy at their house etc. In the mean time I get df'ed and Mary knows that it's because the elders want to shut me up about the pedophile in the congregation that sexually abused my child. Mary is horrified that this happened, she knew the truth about the incident and felt that my df'ing was wrong.........so much so that while I was df'ed she kept contact with me. When I was reinstated Mary saw how badly my family was being treated etc. and was very upset when we changed congregations because of the injustices.
But something strange happened to Mary. Over night she went off the rails, got a job, started smoking and left her hubby. She got df'ed for smoking. We didn't see eachother for 2 years until I contacted her a month ago and asked if she wanted to catch up. She was more than happy.
When I told her over dinner about the 'Sunday' show, all the sexual abuse cover ups, including mine she already knew about, about the UN, the WTS's wealth, the past history of the borg etc............she was blown away. She said that although she knew she was doing the wrong thing living with a man, not serving jehovah etc........she was happy for her xhubby and mother to raise her kids as JWs. Although there were things wrong with the borg, she still wanted her kids to grow up as dubs.
She then proceeded to write me an email to say that despite the things that I presented to her being true and horrible she still believed that the people in the borg were good and it was still a wonderful place for her kids to be raised............OMG............GO FIGURE.
Now, if something bad were to happen to her kids are we suppose to feel sorry for her??????????? I don't know. Seems like the 'troof' is not for her but she wants her kids to do 'it'. Could all that be the same hypocracy she learnt in the borg????????? I can't work it out.
Any ideas?????????
Cheers, Bliss.