While I have nothing against the ones that I knew of that were Annoited, I found their family examples a little troubling. I'm sure die hard JW's will respond that this is because Satan is tormenting them, much as he did to Job. :( While that might be true, I also found that most ran their families like Nazi's, and much of their problems were their own fault!!
Example that I know of: Father was annoited, and I must state first, a very nice, decent, hard-working, loving person. No doubt in my mind that he was annoited, so please if any annoited are reading this, don't take offense!! He had a very crappy job and made very little. But some how, he had like 8 children. Yeah, you heard me - 8 children while working as a janitor! Anyway, due to his working 60 hours a week to make ends meet, making all meetings, pioneering, talks, etc in order to be a "good example", his family life and children suffered severely. :( All children eventually became messed up, due to lack of proper parental guidance, etc. There was no TV in the house, no books but WT literature, and of course, no one was allowed to leave, or play with friends except JW's. In other words, they were prisoners in their own home, and nothing more than WT robots for the entire time we were growing up. Hence, all the children eventually rebeled and became inactive, dissassociated, disfellowshiped, did drugs, etc, etc. Also, this annoited one's wife went out and had an affair after 20 some years of marriage!! While that was wrong, and they divorced, this entire family was a complete mess, and while I was growing up they were supposed to be the "good, spiritual example??" Please!!! They are a model of dysfunctionalism in JW society. A family that had an annoited father as head, but that was completely run into the ground, because spiritual needs came first, and not the family. The family was always second, and hence fell completely apart. I guess I don't see why anyone would want to live forever alone, and without a family? What good is making 7 meetings a week, 40 hours of field service a month, doing talks, underlining WT literature, etc, etc, than making it through the end, and having an eternity of loneliness to look forward too???
Anyone else understand what I am getting at??
Thanks, Wing Commander