You know, were all still a percentage Jehovah's Witness. Like it, or not!

by free2beme 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • free2beme
    free2beme


    I know a lot of people we say, I am 100% out, and speak of all the things they disagree with. Yet I don't think that is the case, we are what the accumulation of our days have brought us too and no matter how hard you try, I know you all have Witness in you. It might be as simple as a thought when we do something normal, with some stray conscience struggle with doing something we were told was wrong for so many years. It might be that scripture popping into your mind when some Christian friend of yours says something so ignorant to the Bible that you almost want to strap on the gloves and go at it again. It might even be something as odd as sitting at a wedding in a church and forgetting to say "Amen" at the end of their church prayer, as we were told never to do that for people that prayed as non-Witnesses. Heck, I have done so many of those things and I still do. I was a Witnesses for 27 years and no matter what I am doing or what I am talking about, there are sparks of that life still firing off from time to time. You can't tell me with an honest face that hearing about the Bird Flu or about major disasters, doesn't cause some split second of Witness thinking. I have been out long enough, to be very honest with myself and I don't deny any of these things. So I admit it, I am still a percentage Jehovah's Witness. Oh well!

    How about you, are you convinced your 100% free?

  • in a new york bethel minute
    in a new york bethel minute

    i agree with you... i think it will always be a part of me... the very fact that we're on this site shows that it still affects us in at least some aspects of life...

    i can't picture anyone who is registered as a JWD member actually having a valid argument to prove that they are 100% jw-free

    bethel

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    I admit it. Even if the beliefs are gone, ways of thinking and acting are still there to an extent. Also, without the institutional atmosphere, i'm a bit like a fish out of water. I can function reasonably well, and look normal, but am so used to being in the wt institution/groupthink, that it still doesn't feel automatic to be totally on my own. Oh well.

    S

  • JH
    JH

    I have an OFF/ON switch.......It's now OFF.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I have no problem with that. I grew up in an alcoholic, sexually abusive family and part of that will always be with me.

    Trite though it is, I always think:

    I've made some tasty lemonade out of the lemons life has handed me.

    Blondie

  • gumby
    gumby

    When you come out of the birth canal as a dub.....and THE entire side of your mothers side are all 100% thoroughbred witnesses, and your dads side are all Mormons......ya kinda find it hard to shake it.

    I've been out for a bit over 10 years and I'm full of dub stuff. Some of it I'm glad I still have.....and some of it needed readjusted. If not for the hurting part....it was an interesting life experience......but 40 years was a bit much.

    Gumby

  • prophecor
    prophecor

    Even before coming into the truth, I wasn't techically a baptized brother until 17 years after learning about the truth, and even now, I still carry a large part of my JW'sim in my heart and mind. I adapt into the community around me, even though I know I don't fit in or belong

  • theinfamousone
    theinfamousone

    dammit, i hate the fact that im still partly one of them... i still think its weird for a guy and a girl who arent related or married to be alone together!!! ha ha, kinda sad eh>

    the infamous one

  • in a new york bethel minute
    in a new york bethel minute
    i still think its weird for a guy and a girl who arent related or married to be alone together!!! ha ha, kinda sad eh>

    hahaha after meeting and becoming friends with homosexuals, i had to make an adjustment to that way of thinking. unless there is a chaperone, no two individuals may be alone together. and the chaperone must be a male who is a ministerial servant and at least 28.

    bethel

  • dezpbem
    dezpbem
    dammit, i hate the fact that im still partly one of them... i still think its weird for a guy and a girl who arent related or married to be alone together!!! ha ha, kinda sad eh>

    I with you there infamousone. Still gets to me sometimes too. It always stays with us to some degree but the more you question their silly thinking the more it tones down.

    Prophecor said

    I adapt into the community around me, even though I know I don't fit in or belong

    I feel the same. Many of us feel different. And at the same time some of the most valuable things in life are those that are unique and a bit different fron the rest.

    On another note I went to a meetup of ex-jw's this weekend. I left around 4pm Saturday. I didn't get back till 6:30am Sunday morning! We went to bars, a restaurant, and in the end it was 2 of us about to go home at 2am when ge got a phone call for a party in the city. The longest night out i've had in ages. Who ever said ex-jw's don't know how to party?

    Dez

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