Do you have any JW blackmail stories?
Have you ever blackmail a JW?
by asilentone 3 Replies latest jw experiences
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Mr. Majestic
I didn’t actually do it in the end, but I came close.
It was an old friend of mine, knew him 10 years and got him out of all kinds of trouble. But I started to work out that the ‘truth’ was not so true, and had questions, as did he at the time. But he had a family in it, which I was lucky not to have.
I continued to ask questions, ones that he would have liked to ask but if he did then his faith was over. So because he needed faith for his family, he pulled away.
A year later he phoned me up to see how I was, and we had a really nice chat. He was curious because I sounded a lot more happy than I used to, and I was moving on with my life. He asked a few things about what I knew about the society, and I told him a few things and also told him that I had helped liberate a few people, one of them being a die hard whom he knew of and knew that it must have taken very compelling evidence to change them. He was shocked.
But the conversation continued friendly and we were talking about meeting up.
The next day he phoned again, but there was a tone change in his voice. And to cut a long story short, he said to me that he thought that I should go and confess to the elders what my new situation was with regards to belief, and tell them that I no longer wanted to be a JW. He said that if I didn’t then he was put in the awkward position to be compelled to talk to them on my behalf if I didn’t. I didn’t care about being kicked out, the only thing is I see a few JW’s now and then because I do work for them. They know and trust me and so it would spoil that. I must say that at the time I was taken back, because of all the help that I had given him over the years. And this is what help I did give him among many other things…..
About a year before, he had marriage problems. He had been to see a Hooker and I was the first person he confided in. I spent a lot of time reasoning with him and he decided to confess to his wife, who proved very understanding, whom I helped also. The only thing is she couldn’t tell her family because they were die hards. So her mum and dad never knew about it, and life would have been impossible for my friend if they ever did find out.
So when he was talking about going to the elders himself and asking me if he should do it or not, I was thinking that if he had said that he was going to do that, then I would have slipped the info about his misdemeanours to his family. Luckily, he decided not to.
Some people just don’t know how vulnerable they are sometimes, and are awfully forgetful……
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asilentone
very interesting story!
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Tired of the Hypocrisy
I think blackmail is reprehensible. To go along with something or learn about some mis-deed and then use it against someone merely to be cruel is a high level of hypocrisy. Not that I stand on any moral high ground. I am quite the ass myself, I just hate to see people screw others like that. Especially a friend abusing the faith and confidence someone put in them.
I had a chance to do so once and am happy that I did not do it. Once I went to the local adult book/video store to return a porn video I had rented. As I was walking out I stood face to face with a jw who had been an elder once but had molested his own daughter, then was df'd for screwing his step-daughter and getting her pregnant.
When we saw each other we simply chose to "ignore" each other. It never came up between us. I actually came up with a lie in case I was dragged into a committee. "I was simply there trying to rescue brother so-and-so from making a mistake" blah blah blah..... Never said a word to anyone until now.