JW's know how to guilt trip....

by HereIgo 21 Replies latest jw experiences

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  HereIgo

  When I left the org, the JW's tried their best to guilt trip me. Some of the questions I was asked and things I was told:

  "How could you POSSIBLY be happy outside of Jehovah's Organization?" (watch me!)

  "The world will eat you alive and spit you back out!"

  "Why don't you just humble yourself and talk to the elders?" (because they are men maybe?)

  "The elders might DF you, but they might not, just talk to them"
  

  "Do you really want to see your 3 year old daughter destroyed?"
  

  "I know you are not responsible for them, but what do you think all of the young bros will think when they see you leaving?" (reminded me of Charles Barkley, I am NOT a role model for your kids )

  "What does the world really have to offer you?" (idk, sanity and freedom from cults?)
  

  Did anyone else experience guilt trips and shaming?
  
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  notalone

  Here's one:

  So how are you?

  Well, I'm not dead yet, so your not bloodguilty.
  
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  Chook

  I never heard promoted in JW literature the theme " I want mercy "
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  skin

  Don't you believe that this system is nearly ended?

  Don't you want to meet your dad in the new world?

  Why don't you want to be a witness anymore?

  Why would you want to leave our spiritual paradise for Satan's doomed world?

  And the list goes on....
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  HereIgo

  Mercy is not in their vocab
  
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  berrygerry

  • I never heard promoted in JW literature the theme " I want mercy "

    It's buried - a lapse in judgment.

    It is also reassuring to know that he seeks to show mercy if there is a basis for doing so.

    
    

    http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102002034?q=mercy+basis&p=par

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Yes, his way of judging can be summed up as follows: firmness where necessary, mercy wherever possible.—2 Peter 3:9.

    
    

    
    

    http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102002034?q=mercy+possible&p=sen

    
    

    
    

    
    

    These spiritually qualified men are well aware that justice, or righteousness, requires that the congregation be kept clean. At times, elders are obliged to judge cases of serious wrongdoing. When doing so, they remember that divine justice seeks to extend mercy if at all possible.

    
    

    http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102002039?q=mercy+possible&p=sen

    
    

    
    

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  DesirousOfChange

  "I'd hate for [so-and-so] to hear that you are now [insert word of your choice: inactive; df'd; divorced; gay; etc]"

  But somehow, they don't seem to understand: "But what if I don't give a shit what [so-and-so] thinks?"
  
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  Lostandfound

  "...but surely you don't blame Jehovah do you?" To mother of young girl abused by elder, answer " ..yes, of course I do, you say it's his organisation so he is responsible for his sheep and is either non existent or to blame!"
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  JWdaughter

  You are just rebelling! You know this is the truth (35 years after I left, at age 50)
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  redpilltwice

  I had this one in a concerned email last week:

  "Even if you are right about 1914, it's not up to you but up to Jehovah to correct mistakes".

  Sigh... he just didn't get my earlier point that it's a core teaching. If it changes, everything else changes. No god would allow a true end-time prophet to proclaim such misleading "truths" for so many decades.

  So, the guilt trip should be on him for lying to people in the name of Jehovah.