ExJW Pet Peeve: "I know exactly how I'd wake a witness up"
This is not the worst thing obviously, but talking to never-witnesses about the shunning doctrine/homophobia/misogyny etc etc within the organization can be soooooo annoyingly repetitive sometimes. Almost every time the person will try to come up with a never-before-thought-of gotcha to make my family love and respect me again, which is nice in theory, but it's always the same things and it feels like they think I'm stupid lmao
it always goes something like:
"If God MADE gay people then why would he hate them, hmm?? Did they ever think of that???"
"Witnesses don't believe God made each person individually and believe homosexuality came into existence due to Satan"
"Oh."
"Have you ever asked your family what they think is going to happen to the people who don't go to heaven?? Bc there are definitely a lot more than 144,000 witnesses 😏"
"Yah that's a major part of their doctrine and most witnesses don't want to go to heaven."
"Oh..."
"Why would God destroy the devil when he created the devil to test humanity?"
"They don't think he did that."
"Ah."
etc etc etc
Most recently I was told to tell them that God doesn't actually love everyone and I just had to be like....yeah?? that's why they think he's gonna kill a bunch of people soon idk what you're getting at???
Anyways. It is fine, but I do mildly hate having to break down witness doctrine every time I want to bring up my situation so that I won't be continuously bombarded with novel suggestions about how to overcome my parents deep seated cognitive dissonance.