Well, get ready to be shocked at the audacity!
We have family who came in from Costa Rica today. A cousin and his girlfriend. And then another cousin and her family are arriving on Monday. Lots of family plans are taking place.
So I'm at my sister's house with my brothers, sisters, mom, step-dad, nieces and nephews all waiting for my cousin to arrive. My JW sister was picking them up and bringing them over. She gets there and when she sees me, she immediately gets pissed off! (I mean obviously really pissed off because I am supposed to cooperate and not be there when she's going to be there ya know!) So I go over and I give her a kiss on the cheek. She is furious now -- especially after the Lion King fiasco.
Every room I am in, she goes into another room. She would not sit down to eat with everybody because I was sitting at the table. The whole time, she is in the living room. She abruptly decides to leave. Everybody acts as if nothing strange is going on. My family is too polite to mention anything.
About two hours go by and my mom comes into the room and says, "Your sister is on the phone. She is asking to talk to you." So I cheerfully say, "Hello." Word for word follows:
E: I just wanted to let you know that I did research about your joining another religion and I have to treat you like you're disfellowshipped. So tomorrow I'm taking our cousins to Disneyland and I just wanted you to let me know if you are planning on going because if you are, I wont go then.
Me: Well, I wasn't planning on going but if someone invites me I can't say that I wont go.
E: Well, I need to know when you're going to be somewhere so I can have my options of whether to go or not. (Keep in mind all the relatives coming. Basically, she wanted me to give her a schedule of what I was going to do with them so she could work around my schedule to shun me.)
Me: You always have your options but I don't cooperate with Watchtower rules.
E: I just want you to respect me and let me know when you're going to be somewhere.
Me: No. I can't do that. You want me to call you and TALK to you and tell you I'm going to be somewhere so you can then avoid going because I'm there. I don't think I can cooperate with that type of abuse. No. I'm Christian and that is not a Christian way to be. It is certainly not scriptural. I'm sorry. It would bother my conscience to follow such a rule. (Can you imagine? I'm so sure.... Hi, just letting you know I'll be at so-n-sos so you can shun me....GET REAL!)
E: Well, don't expect to be invited to anything I plan.
Me: Well, that's fine. However, if someone else in the family invites me, don't expect me not to go. Like I said, I don't follow Watchtower rules. You will always be my sister even if you wish I was dead. You will be sinning. I will not be sinning.
E: I didn't call to LISTEN to you. I called to ask you to give me the courtesy.....
Me: Sorry. Can't do that. Wont do that. The Watchtower breaks up families. You should read their media website where they lie and say that no family ties are broken....
HUNG UP ON ME!
Well, that's it folks! The nerve! The audacity! I was shaking. I was crying afterwards. It hurt really, really bad! But you know what. The whole family saw again. They are disgusted with the JW's. And the worst part about it is that she was talking to me when she could have simply asked one of them, "Is XXX going?" Why doesn't she explain to them that she is shunning me? Because she is a hypocrite and doesn't want to "stumble" them.
Well, she didn't guess the level that I would take my non-cooperation to. She's either going to have to let everyone know what she's doing at which time they will each tell her how disgusted they are. Or she's going to have to live with the fact that she's going to have to see me, I'm going to be polite, cheerful and loving towards her. I will not hang my head down low and I will always kiss her cheek like I always have.
Bite my ass, Watchtower! I don't follow YOUR RULES!!!!!