First I need to say that reading and being part of this online community is addicting... I keep telling myself to not read anything here because it just brings that bad taste back in my mouth... I tell myself that if I don't read the posts and occassionally post myself, that I will slowly start to forget everything I know or have learned about JWs... but I can't seem to stay away long enough to have that happen... am I nuts, or what?
Anyway, one thing I have been thinking a lot about is something my study conductor used to say to me... that JWs always, always put Jehovah first, then they concentrate next on family, and, lastly, on the congregation... If all that is true, then why not just leave the rest of us alone... If your priorities are in this order, and the general population isn't even mentioned, then why chase us down, knocking on our doors trying to evangelize to us if you only care about the three things mentioned above... seems somewhat hypocritical to me...
You say you care about me but I am not one of the top three choices! And then you talk about family being your second priority but in a second you are ready to cut ties and not speak to them if elders in the congregation determine that they are a "bad association." It's hypocritical... plain and simple... Where does Jesus do that in the Bible... my God, he would have been disfellowshipped in a minute saying things like, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" to save someone from death... or speak to the Samaritan woman at the well (wouldn't that be a bad association), or dealing with lepers and others who have been ostracized by the rest of the community...
How can they say they are spreading love and believe only in love and then restrict it to say that it only holds meaning if you are in the congregation... Did Jesus say he would only love people if they abandoned their families and followed him around Galillee? No... he did not...
So hypocritical.... and so pissed that I fell for it...