Very interesting. I guess I would be the "daughter" expert. Unfortunately, my email was hit with the big worm last week and I have to have my hard drive reformatted some time this week. Geez, life without email. Not good!
I've said quite a bit on this board but when I think about it, it's really only the surface. It's difficult to thoroughly explain the heartache, torment, worry, grief, and all the emotions one has when their firstborn is tragically transformed into a robot. That's why even though I've never been a JW I totally related to "The Borg" statements. I immediately knew the meaning behind it. She even physically does not look like herself! She was outwardly beautiful...long curly hair, perfect features, straight white teeth...everything a mom dreams of. And now she has a flat affect, an extra hundred or so pounds (she's only 5'4"), an obvious mustache from all the antidepressants and various other medications over the years, very poor short term memory from the ongoing electroconvulsive therapy "treatments." She is someone else.
She was ordered by the judge to get a job (in order to be the primary caregiver of her own children) so she gets a job on weekends only so she can be a full time pioneer. It's obvious she has no intention of actually supporting these children. She lives with her soon to be ex husband's (disfellowshipped I think) JW parents. I guess they are financially supporting the family.
How dare they! What a sick bunch of manipulating, insane, perverted, mean-spirited, antisocial, mentally ill, poor excuses for human beings.
I use this word with great care, thought, and without reservation...I HATE THEM.
I am going to my room to cry now.
Claudette