Which did you fear more as a JW, God or the Elders?

by JH 26 Replies latest jw friends

  • JH
    JH

    I felt that God understood if I missed meetings or didn't go out in the field service very much, but the elders wouldn't.

    Bottom line, I feared the elders more .....

    That's pretty sad.

  • restrangled
    restrangled

    It was first the parents, then the elders. God did not ever enter the picture.

    r.

  • Moomin
    Moomin

    Hey JH - thats exactly the same way I felt. So yes I feared the elders more, and my study conductor. I was much more afraid of admitting things to her than I was to God. Also, feeling like that made me feel guilty as I believed I was disrespecting God by being more concerned of other people's reaction.:(

  • Effervescent
    Effervescent

    What Restrangled said...

    Mostly I feared my Dad, but then he was an Elder so maybe that counts?

    The only time that it actually entered my mind to fear the Elders was when I had to go to a Judicial Meeting. Then I was shaking in my boots.

  • Annie Over
    Annie Over

    I didn't fear God, I loved him and still do, but those elders were more like the pompus preachers they talked about so much.

  • lovelylil
    lovelylil

    The elders because God is much more loving and forgiving then any of them were! Lilly

  • garybuss
    garybuss

    I didn't even know who the elders were after they dropped the servant "arrangement". I sure didn't fear the god character. As a kid the Witnesses scared me with all their constant talk about goblins (deemins).

    We lived in the country and at night it was dark as the inside of a cow. I hated it when the wind would blow. The outhouse was on the tree line and at night when the wind would blow and the trees moved like the arms on a ghost. We didn't have an inside bathroom until I was 9. The flashlight made shadows and made the trip worse at night.


  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    The elders are the right hand of the WBT$..The WBT$ made God cancell armageddon in 1975..I was there..There was no armageddon in 1975..Without the WBT$,God wouldn`t have a job..Elders are way more powerfull

  • candidlynuts
    candidlynuts

    my ex husbands temper! god and the elders seemed impotent

  • Amazing
    Amazing

    I feared God more ... but I was raised believing in God in the first place, and not the marketing image of the Watchtower that they label Jehovah. Now I still fear God, but not the Watchtower.

    Jim Whitney

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