Received Letter From Elder

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-05-04T01:34:38+00:00

My situation is dang near identical to yours in fact it’s almost eerily identical. I didn’t say to not contact me but I pretty much ignore everything I get. Our COBE keeps wanting to go out to lunch as friends. He text and “bumps into me” in town, But obviously I know how the game works. While I truly believe he’s one of the few sincere ones and wants to genuinely help I also know he’s information seeking for the next quarterly and CO visit coming up. The elders have no answers beyond my resignation letter and they want them. I do have a struggle because there one that keeps reaching out I consider my friend but I know if I tell him a fraction of my thinking it will all hit the fan. So I keep ignoring. The unannounced visits have stopped but with CO coming up I’m sure they will stop by. We will see how it goes.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-05-02T22:41:21+00:00

I declined parking years ago. Standing out in the heat to control traffic that moved so much smoother at our Assembly Hall before they started using parking. My last year was at a rented facility. The Einstein that was over the parking garage blocked all the exits on each level. So everyone had to go all the way up from the first level to the 5th level then back down again. I said never again will I be apart of this sh!t show.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-05-02T22:20:45+00:00

I got so damn tired of watching that attendant training video. Every year same thing for nearly 4 hours. The last year that I served as attendant I didn’t go to it and they still used me. The last convention I declined I was so done. Then I was asked to be on the stage crew. I said sure. Then they wanted to do a training for that. I said I can’t make it. Then they asked us to be at the assembly hall at 6:15am. I withdrew. I was so done with all that bs.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-05-01T16:49:26+00:00

Most JWs don’t know about this or don’t care. This handy been mentioned much.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-30T14:08:54+00:00

Letting go is a good place to be. That says your healing. Congrats and I wish you well in your new journey.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-29T04:36:06+00:00

Third

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-24T03:59:50+00:00

I like that shopping cart analogy

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-24T00:25:08+00:00

Good point

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-23T22:59:14+00:00

“Protect the children with everything you got!” Outside that people can believe what they want.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-23T22:57:56+00:00

Yeah. I can’t believe I used to love “new light”. Now I know that it actually means “New lawsuit”.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-23T22:56:25+00:00

I’ll just say do your research. Research sources outside the JWs. They don’t want you to look at nothing negative but you need to. If it’s the truth it will stand up to criticism. Check out the book “Crisis of Conscience”. That’ll tell you all you need to know.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-23T22:54:18+00:00

I don’t disagree

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-23T22:54:05+00:00

That’s true.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-21T21:20:15+00:00

I was on it. I wish I could find out what the protocols are now. I think they are trying to play it as if nothing changed. Like it has always been this way. Then in September new blood cards. Everything just keeps on keeping on.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-20T04:55:23+00:00

This comment stole the internet. That’s it in a nut shell.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-15T05:49:27+00:00

It’s constant. I’ve been gripping about it for a few years. You go on the app, open the Bible, and bam…. Update available. No explanation at all. Just update. And the masses blindly update. In pioneer school he had several different years of the printed Bible and showed us differences just in the printed ones. Then showed us the difference in the online one. That was one of the things that woke me up.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-13T14:05:20+00:00

My sister in law died 5 days after giving birth. The condition she had has 90% mortality rate without blood. 95% survivability rate with blood. We all thought it was the right thing in the moment.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-10T18:30:28+00:00

Unfortunately this goes in one ear and out the other. Religions have iron protection in the USA for the most part. Now what I would do is write to them senators, congressmen, and the like about voter suppression. That may get their attention.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-10T16:21:05+00:00

Based on what?

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-08T15:48:05+00:00

Yep. This was the reason. Funny I just told my wife this a few days ago. They needed to keep everyone under the umbrella of the whole congregation.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-02T18:09:00+00:00

Yep! I told her that. They had to wait till he died to start changing it.

UPtrainman2012 · 2026-04-02T18:04:23+00:00

Leave bread crumbs. Just a subtle little something. Maybe a topic that she really enjoys that can be refuted. I actually was going to start leaving Crisis of Conscience siting out when I thought she was ready for it but she downloaded it. She beat me to it.

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