Frank Loomer, my grandmother became a JW after her mother purchased "the books" for her son Curtis. I remember hearing from a great aunt that her mother had said that was the worst mistake she ever made. Eventually my grandmother married off my aunt that was only 2 years older than me to another JW family when she was only 16 years old. …
Frank Loomer, my grandmother became a JW after her mother purchased "the books" for her son Curtis. I remember hearing from a great aunt that her mother had said that was the worst mistake she ever made. Eventually my grandmother married off my aunt that was only 2 years older than me to another JW family when she was only 16 years old. My aunt ended up having a split personality. She was one way when she was alone (rarely) with me and another with other JW around. She died of dementia a few years ago. I blame them. My mother was baptized in the JWs after finally divorcing my father for having yet another affair after they were married for nearly 50 years. As soon as the divorce for final the JWs would not let her out of their sight. I know that because she lived with me at the time. She had dementia when she died and didn't remember being a JW. She had another sister that was also a JW and she died with dementia and she didn't remember being a JW. I had another aunt that died that got really involved with the JWs (when she called me on the phone, I would usually have to hang up on her because of her preaching to me) but she would not let her daughters see me. She was always a little off the wall and had basically grown up with her mother being a JW. They can really mess up a family. I believe in being a good person and I think the 10 Commandments are great rules to follow. I didn't know I was a sinner until I was in a Sunday School class when I was about 12 years old. I was ask if I was a sinner and I said no. I found out that day that I was a sinner the day I was born...... that was a shocked and embarrassed. I could go on and on...I belong to the Presbyterian Church but I watch The Sunday Morning Show on Sunday mornings. I get a whole lot more watching that show than showing up and watching who is in church on Sunday morning and who isn't. Have a great day. Hugs
I dont want to sound I'm making light of any of this, when i say i greatly enjoyed reading this so very human interest story. JW has a considerable turnover with something of an unstable membership. Its beliefs are fanatically millenial with only a small portion of humanity being "saved". I get the sinner thing: as a juvenile, i could never shake the feeling i might not be saved, but it was part of the indoctrination. You just "didn't know". Even after you leave that true belief environment, some if not a lot of that emotional underlay remains onboard, colouring our inner attitudes about who we feel we are, and others as well. Thank you for sharing your story!
Thank you, Frank. The funny thing is that today I am 80 1/2 years old and I can still remember that morning. Another memory is being on the school bus and the naughty boys on the bus ask me if I was a virgin. I thought about it and I knew Mary had baby Jesus and they said she was a virgin. I didn't know how to answer that one either. You might say I was a bit sheltered. I was an only child...if that could be an excuse. LOL
lol you've got "two and half years" on me. That puts you in the Area 51 Roswell Incident Era, I came in the wake of Hiroshima / Nagasaki. I can still remember Art Belyea i think it was, or Otty Sherwood maybe, looking out the Sunday class window and dramatically pointing to the Cathedral across the valley and declaring those Catholics were all going to Hell. Mom reassured me "not likely".... she never baptised into the denomination, self declared "adherent". Sigh, "those days of religion"! Fun chatting with you. When someone crudely explained sex to me, i was repelled, in disbelief. God!
Frank Loomer, LOL I guess I don't feel so bad now just to know that I wasn't the only one. Frank, I just checked and you are an accountant. I worked 26 1/2 years as an auditor for the Indiana Department of Revenue. It was interesting work to say the least! I worked until I was 70 and wish I was still at it!
I was a community college accountant for 23 years before retiring at 63 or so. Glad it's no more, though i did enjoy the work for quite a long time, and i just plain didn't enjoy auditing myself, so there! And darn didn't i have a repetitive dream last night of having to work out some sort of accounting thing. Never got done! No sooner had I learned about how sex felt when i overheard my mother saying it would be time for me to learn the "facts of life" when i was 16. Was only 13. So confusing, thank you Ann Landers. Finishing up the day with a late Chili supper, my very first effort, and taking in Denzel Washington Equalizer 3. Gratuitous gore and righteous justice i mean revenge :)
Frank Loomer, my grandmother became a JW after her mother purchased "the books" for her son Curtis. I remember hearing from a great aunt that her mother had said that was the worst mistake she ever made. Eventually my grandmother married off my aunt that was only 2 years older than me to another JW family when she was only 16 years old. My aunt ended up having a split personality. She was one way when she was alone (rarely) with me and another with other JW around. She died of dementia a few years ago. I blame them. My mother was baptized in the JWs after finally divorcing my father for having yet another affair after they were married for nearly 50 years. As soon as the divorce for final the JWs would not let her out of their sight. I know that because she lived with me at the time. She had dementia when she died and didn't remember being a JW. She had another sister that was also a JW and she died with dementia and she didn't remember being a JW. I had another aunt that died that got really involved with the JWs (when she called me on the phone, I would usually have to hang up on her because of her preaching to me) but she would not let her daughters see me. She was always a little off the wall and had basically grown up with her mother being a JW. They can really mess up a family. I believe in being a good person and I think the 10 Commandments are great rules to follow. I didn't know I was a sinner until I was in a Sunday School class when I was about 12 years old. I was ask if I was a sinner and I said no. I found out that day that I was a sinner the day I was born...... that was a shocked and embarrassed. I could go on and on...I belong to the Presbyterian Church but I watch The Sunday Morning Show on Sunday mornings. I get a whole lot more watching that show than showing up and watching who is in church on Sunday morning and who isn't. Have a great day. Hugs
I dont want to sound I'm making light of any of this, when i say i greatly enjoyed reading this so very human interest story. JW has a considerable turnover with something of an unstable membership. Its beliefs are fanatically millenial with only a small portion of humanity being "saved". I get the sinner thing: as a juvenile, i could never shake the feeling i might not be saved, but it was part of the indoctrination. You just "didn't know". Even after you leave that true belief environment, some if not a lot of that emotional underlay remains onboard, colouring our inner attitudes about who we feel we are, and others as well. Thank you for sharing your story!
Thank you, Frank. The funny thing is that today I am 80 1/2 years old and I can still remember that morning. Another memory is being on the school bus and the naughty boys on the bus ask me if I was a virgin. I thought about it and I knew Mary had baby Jesus and they said she was a virgin. I didn't know how to answer that one either. You might say I was a bit sheltered. I was an only child...if that could be an excuse. LOL
lol you've got "two and half years" on me. That puts you in the Area 51 Roswell Incident Era, I came in the wake of Hiroshima / Nagasaki. I can still remember Art Belyea i think it was, or Otty Sherwood maybe, looking out the Sunday class window and dramatically pointing to the Cathedral across the valley and declaring those Catholics were all going to Hell. Mom reassured me "not likely".... she never baptised into the denomination, self declared "adherent". Sigh, "those days of religion"! Fun chatting with you. When someone crudely explained sex to me, i was repelled, in disbelief. God!
Frank Loomer, LOL I guess I don't feel so bad now just to know that I wasn't the only one. Frank, I just checked and you are an accountant. I worked 26 1/2 years as an auditor for the Indiana Department of Revenue. It was interesting work to say the least! I worked until I was 70 and wish I was still at it!
I was a community college accountant for 23 years before retiring at 63 or so. Glad it's no more, though i did enjoy the work for quite a long time, and i just plain didn't enjoy auditing myself, so there! And darn didn't i have a repetitive dream last night of having to work out some sort of accounting thing. Never got done! No sooner had I learned about how sex felt when i overheard my mother saying it would be time for me to learn the "facts of life" when i was 16. Was only 13. So confusing, thank you Ann Landers. Finishing up the day with a late Chili supper, my very first effort, and taking in Denzel Washington Equalizer 3. Gratuitous gore and righteous justice i mean revenge :)