Well....tonight is when they announce my disfellowshipping for apostasy from "Jehovah's Organization". On another note.....I have officially learned that the woman I used to love and that I trusted was a genuinely good, moral person is officially evil.
I have a friend that still goes to the Sunday meeting to appease his elderly parents. But he is mentally out and I've been hanging out with him often. This friend let me in on a "business deal" that he entered into with my wife's father 8 years ago. My friend ended up getting financially shafted by my FIL and then my FIL.....being the gossiping, coniving and manipulating man that he is....made sure to warn the congregation of the "downward spiritual spiral" that my friend is in......thus getting everyone in the congregation to have an automatic distrust for my friend. This isn't the only shady financial deal my FIL has been a part of. There are many others. In fact.....let me give you a little background. My FIL has been on an insurance company issued disability policy for almost 20 years. My FIL is a pencil pusher......so the work he used to do was not strenuous. But it was "stressful" and he managed to convince the insurance company that he could not handle the mental rigors of his job anymore and thus needed to be on long term (permanent) disability. This would allow him to collect 66% of his previous year's salary until he turns 65. And that is what he's been doing for 20 years. The catch is.....in order to collect that $, he must "prove" that he is not of sound mind.......at least.....not sound enough to handle the rigors of his job. He does this by visiting a psychiatrist each week. Yet he is a congregation elder. And in order to hold that position.....he must prove that he IS of sound mind. Sound enough to handle meeting parts, give talks, be on the hospital visitation committee etc.
So I am talking to my wife about splitting our $ last week. Out of the kindness of my heart.....I simply said "look....your dad has been involved in a number of financial messes (including his own filing of bankruptcy) and many of them have hurt other people. I am not saying that he enters such deals seeking to harm others.....but....that has been the final result. Others have been hurt and that is what happens when you get friends involved in risky deals. Just.....be careful with your $ because I fear that in the future he is going to have a business proposition for you." My wife acted very concerned and asked for more info. Because I still trusted her somewhat.....I gave her the info regarding my friend. She proceeded to angrily accuse my friend of lying about her father (even though I have SEEN the business deal paperwork that they both signed WITH MY OWN EYES) and demanded that I stop "slandering" her dad. Of course she went straight to her dad to tell him that my friend and I are slandering him. He went to the elders. Why, you ask? Not because of slander.......because he KNOWS it is true! But to get my friend disfellowshipped for associating with ME! Granted....I haven't been DF'd quite yet.....but around here the witnesses know of my "apostate" thinking. So......the witch hunt has begun. My friend is now being called up by the elders to set up a "time to talk". They want to know if my thinking has rubbed off on him at all. It is an official witch hunt
So....what my wife did....is feign concern so that she could gather information and then viciously defend her father all while eliminating the source of the sore spot for she and her dad.
What a bitch