One of the most interesting things that the Boys at the House have been able to do over all these years is to protect themselves from the anger of the rank and file
they put unqualified dudes on the front lines- hang elder tags around their neck and tell the rank and file that jah will kill you if you don't listen to them
and sure enough some of the most talented, educated and brightest women FALL RIGHT IN LINE - like our dear sister here, along with my wife and so many other sisters and bro who don't have positions
they will submit themselves to some of the biggest jackasses called Elders that you have ever seen
let me share this one exp with you
we had a sister in our hall who was a single Dr. she invited one of her fellow Dr. to my book study one night - says she like my style of conducting - tired to make the meetings live despite going thru the Rev book half a dozen times-
well what happened was I couldn't make it or my assistance- the call was made to another bro house to late to get a sub over to the book study so the only guy left was an man( good man - just hand no biz being a MS other than he was knocking down 35 hours a month)
he hardly can read, but he was the man in the drivers seat- well as you know WT does allow for sisters to as least read under these circumstances- well being that he was not A SOCIETY MAN all he knew was that WOMEN MUST REMAIN SILENT- so he read and conducted since there were no other males in the book study
so here this sister is with her friend also a Dr and the meeting is being presided over by "Larry" from the team of Mo, Larry and Curly
so for one hour and she told me later in fact she called me that night
how embarrassed she was to have this educated woman with her who found the meeting to be an insult to her intelligence--
yet she sat there and afterward tried to explain to her friend why none of the qualified women could read instead of this guy.
the reason is simple she too was a victim of THE SYSTEM
just think about it- the most educated folks with masters and PhD’s must submit themselves to dudes who clean toilets and cut lawns for questioning AT ANY TIME-
AND WHY IT IS THE SYSTEM
the wt has always made sure that when something goes wrong --it is the elders who get hit
I recall in elders school when I was having my doubts coming to the surface they told us to right down certain things never to mention on DFing forms and
I recall so well at lunch all the elders who were sitting around talking about HOW SMART THE SOCIETY WAS by protecting themselves and I was saying to myself-- YEA THEY are smart but they are sitting Our Dumb Asses up as the fall guys
so all these clowns were so happy that they were not giving us anything IN PRINT, but making us write it down by hand ourselves
THE WT HAS ALWAYS MADE sure that they don't get the blame
and most jw since they only deal with the elders and perhaps the CO- maybe-- the boys at the house are able to stay behind the Curtain and not be blamed
so even when jw leave for those who have never served as elders they simply don't know
I personally find talking to some former jw who have never served much like talking to a NON_JW about your life as a JW THEY SIMPLY DON’T UNDERSTAND and it's not to say anything bad about them- they merely don't have a ref point to work with
that is why we read of so many bro and sister who marry nonjw and when they are struggling the nonjw will say
SNAP OUT IT - GET ON WITH YOUR LIFE-
MUCH Like folks will tell a rape victim- get out of the house, get on with your life, etc
that is why it is so important for anyone of us who have not walked in the shoes of others to be so careful.
I personally found very few elders who did not think that they were doing the will of god, much like most jw who would tell a householder on being asked :Are you people out trying to convert folks-99% of all jw would respond by saying O NO we are merely encouraging more bible reading:
when in fact they just got their A$$ beat by the CO for not having enough bible studies
as one CO used to say we go out in service to START STUDIES
yet we tell householders that we are merely encouraging more bible reading
For anyone who doesn't think that elders are as much a victim of the system as the rest then - they are entitled to their opinion I guess
When I read post that say I HATE JW OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT
it tells me that this person knows very little about the SYSTEM.
There are very few who know as much about what goes on behind the scene as elders wives - yet we rarely see an elders wife stand up and say:
The hell with this religion cause I have seen all the back room politic, backstabbing, etc- NOPE they sit right there believing that this is still the truth and in time god will clean out the old bad elders-
like I stated it is the system-
I look at myself a dyed in wool society man- I would DF my mama if she crossed God's org and why
well when they beat into your head Dathan and Korah stories long and hard enough you believe that stuff after while..
I have never believed that the Org was wrong and so I stayed, I believed that bad elders( of course wt told me this) would be weeded out in jah due time-- I just needed to be faithful
and that is the basic mindset that most jw who can write a list of all the bad stuff they see going on in their Congo-
they believe that god will clean it up-- we just got to stay put
I recall the widows mite story where the old lady went to the temple each day- despite the Pharisees , scribes and Sadducees and the speaker explained it’s like that in the congo many times
We just need to keep on attending our sales meeting, selling books on the weekend, (oops I meant attending our meeting and field service activity)
Bottom line there are only really about 25 men who really run things -the rest serve at the good pleasure of those guys
I see nothing accomplished by trying to lay the blame on “Elders” when each one of us played what ever role we did all the why thinking this is the will of god-
I think back at all the sisters who would have nothing to do with a sister whose husband was not an elder or who had kids that had problems and they labeled these persons as Spirutallly weak
My point is sometimes the women in the hall could treat another sister like a pure OUTCAST – and why well any times their view of this sister was shaped by the value system of wt
“ Girl she ain’t never out in service”
“She need to clean then little dirty kids up”
poor sister did everything in her power that night just to be at the meeting and instead of the sisters say – I’m glad sister single with 3kids made it- THEY DOG HER INSTEAD
AND WHY cause they were basing their evaluation of this sister on THE SYSTEM
DID elder hurt folks Hell yea, but how many elders wives knew about the child molestation cases in the hall and called the police-
So may point is we all did what we did under the crazy idea that it was for god
That is why many of us look back and ---I KNOW I DO- Can’t believe the way I treated others thinking that somehow this will help them come back to god- or should I say WT
Just my two
Plz folks move on with the name calling and blame game
We all got THE SHAFT one way or the other from the SYSTEM
JUST MY 2
james
ps
ain't if so nice to be free to express how you feel - even perhaps if others don't agree and you will not be loooked upon as being DISLOYAL TO GOD
i just love this NET "THANG"
