My last meeting (page 2)

greendawn

Congratulations Poppy you also saw the truth about the watchtower fairy tales.

It is quite a perversion to meet your child (or your parent) on the street and turn your head the other way so as not speak to them because a bunch of crooks said so. The Bible doen't talk about the complete cutting off of members except in extreme cases, and many disfel/ing reasons in the WTS are simply ridiculous.

hideme

Hi Poppy,

I am happy for you.

I am not this far yet, but three months ago we asked for the bookstudy (groupstudy?) to be somewhere else. We had it in our home, like you had.

And since then I never attended the bookstudy again.

I still visit the other meetings now and then. Yesterday, we had another historical low number of attendance: 24 (congr. is about 60 publishers.)

But they don't make me feel appy at all.

I'm glad for you you could make the decision.

Dansk

We talked for hours, and afterwards I have never seen more clearly what I have stepped away from and my heart breaks for those who are left in it and are so BLIND.

Good for you!

The dfed girls mother was sobbing and saying every day she prays for the strength just to get through it.

And this is supposed to be a Christian organisation! Immediately it makes it known your decision is the right one!

I'm not totally sure there is a god, or if there is that he cares, but what I do know is if he did.. he would never put his name to an organisation that makes people feel as desperate as this.

Congratulations. It is obvious you are seeing most clearly!

Feel like I have pulled one of my last suckers away from the JWs, I'm never going to another meeting.

Excellent. My wife and I decided that ALL meetings were off-limit as soon as we left. That includes weddings and funerals. Why? Because we couldn't bear to listen to any garbage anymore at any time. Once one knows truth there's no going back. Some people we genuinely loved in the congregation, but even if they died we couldn't attend their funeral because the words would be hollow.

Claire and I are at peace now. As I write this I have incense burning on my Buddhist altar and classical music playing in the background. True spirituality is found way outside of the organisation. I'm glad you're now walking a new path. I'm sure it will lead you to what you are searching for.

Well done, Poppy.

Ian

Clam

Well done Poppy. Please don't let the Watchtower Society put you off the idea of God though.

Finding the real creator may be a real comfort to you. I certainly don't think the real one would plan to exterminate 6 billion people and leave behind a bunch of JW's. There would be too many window cleaners for a start!

PoppyR

There would be too many window cleaners for a start!

Lol... You are so right on this one! But I dont let the WT put me off God, I let what I see in the world do it.

I still have a lot of thinking and reasoning to do, but the more I reason on the bible.. the less I like what I see. And if God IS that God..

Poppy xx

PoppyR

I am not this far yet, but three months ago we asked for the bookstudy (groupstudy?) to be somewhere else. We had it in our home, like you had.
And since then I never attended the bookstudy again.
I still visit the other meetings now and then. Yesterday, we had another historical low number of attendance: 24 (congr. is about 60 publishers.)
But they don't make me feel appy at all.

Hide me..

I did this for a long time, that is about 2 years, when I finally made the decision to just NOT GO, it was the happiest I think I've ever felt in my life. And to my surprise I've had very little hassle about it, I basicly just told people I was re-evaluating my life and had to think about things, and on the whole they've left me alone, as you say though, too many others to worry about!

I really dont know how people here can know what they do and carry on going, especially as elders etc, I just cant do it, i want to run around and scream in the meetings!!

Poppy xx

PoppyR

Claire and I are at peace now. As I write this I have incense burning on my Buddhist altar and classical music playing in the background. True spirituality is found way outside of the organisation. I'm glad you're now walking a new path. I'm sure it will lead you to what you are searching for

Thanks Ian. To be honest this sort of spirituality has always appealed to me even when I was a JW, I used to practice meditation because I found it to be so helpful in my life, once I left my yoga video out for the group and forgot it was even a problem!! Someone commented on it all horrified! I just cant believe how ridiculous that is!

Buddhism is definitely somethign I will be looking into

Thanks for your kind words

Poppy xx

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Van Gogh

Poppy,

Congrats with newfound freedom of conscience.
I suddenly couldn't stomach the fading thing any more.
My last meeting was about three weeks ago.
I'm not so sure about God anymore as well though - but somehow it is a huge relief to be free of dogma.
Only questions remain, but the freedom to find some sort of answers for yourself feels immensely comforting - many things seem to fall into place as well and suddenly become clear.

"The elder taking the group,(who I dearly love) said it was discipline and the person had to learn"

I have very dear friends like this as well - unfortunately there is a big divide now.
The schizophrenia continues...

TallTexan

Excellent that you got away. Take a deep breath, and don't look back (remember Lot's wife....lol).

The elder taking the group, (who I dearly love) said it was discipline and the person had to learn,

I always understood that it was supposed to 'keep the congregation clean'. ;-) Yet this is truly how many witnesses feel. Show me one place in the Bible that supports this. Of course, we know the whole DF'ing thing is un-scriptural, but even by their own standards and beliefs, it is not supposed to be 'discipline' - even though that's exactly what it turns out to be.......

Bonnie_Clyde

You mentioned your husband was at the meeting and he even chimed in. Will he continue going to meetings or is he stopping too?

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