This bears repeating:
We blame the Watch Tower Publishing business and not the shunners. We give the shunners access to our homes, our spouses, our children, our cars, trucks, tools, bank accounts. We tell them we love them even as they shun us. We make it easy for them to shun and snub us.
All too often we excuse these shunners because they're 'misled' by the Watchtower. But really, they are misled because they choose to give the Watchtower authority in their lives. They choose to obey the Watchtower even when their common sense tells them it's wrong. In my book, blaming their actions on Watchtower policies doesn't cut it. They have a brain, same as anyone else. They are the ones who should suffer the consequenses of their actions. Rather than fawning all over them when they give us our yearly phone call, perhaps we'd do better to give them a resounding FU*K YOU!!! when they call.
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