I realized that it's okay to not know all the answers to all life's problems.
True...I think that is another aspect of thinking for yourself...there are things we have no answer for...sometimes a good guess, not always the answer...
How long till...
by Quentin 18 Replies latest jw friends
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Quentin
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Stealth453
I have been out for 25 years, and I still have some dub episodes from time to time.
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Highlander
I have been out for 25 years, and I still have some dub episodes from time to time. Is that why you still wear the diaper?
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Terry
I can remember going to a poker party many years ago where one of the other players was an Ex-JW. He didn't know I ever was one. In the course of the game I slyly shifted the conversation around to certain "innocent" questions of theology. Every single reply the ex-JW gave was strict party-line orthodoxy from the Watchtower.
Finally, at the end of the evening I looked him in the eye and said: "You can't possibly believe any of the things you've said this evening."
He blinked and asked, "Why not?"
I replied: "Because, if you REALLY believed what you've been saying you would be down at the Kingdom Hall right now and not playing poker and drinking beer. You are just parroting what you've been told without even thinking about it. Either figure out what you really believe or go back and grab a seat at the Watchtower Study because you're confused."
I have no idea why I said it so sharply. It was none of my business at all. I think, upon reflection, I was seeing myself in him and thinking how much of his life was being wasted by carrying around a belief system completely detached from reality.
I don't know whatever happened to him. I wish him well.
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BizzyBee
I have been out for 25 years, and I still have some dub episodes from time to time. Is that why you still wear the diaper?
Ahhh, Stealth! You set yourself up for that one! LOL!
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Quentin
Funny thing eh?...Having been one, you can always spot one...
Some years ago I worked with a guy who came around on breaks and bummed smokes. He was subtle...at first I took him for a regular Fundy, but he could not keep the wt rhetoric out no matter how hard he tried. It would seep through when there was a discussion about current events. One day I asked him: "They know you smoke?" Startled he said "What?"...rather loudly by the way. "Down at the kh, they know you smoke?"...All he could manage was a stammering "I don't know what your talking about"....flipped the cigarette out the door walked off. Never spoke to me again. We moved back to Texas several months later. Don't know what his status was as a jw, bet he got real cautious after that...
I had been gone about fifteen years when that happened. I suppose no matter how far you get from the tower, having been a j will always be with you. I like to think after another fifteen years I wouldn't be so sensitive. Sigh... I doubt it though...
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darth frosty
I wasted the best years of my mind, making up excuses for the WT. I came up with this one theory that the great trib. will take place in an individuals minds and this will be the way it is like none that has ever occured. I use to write service talks for when I was going to be a CO. Then I went to Bethel, where I thought I would be with like intellects, who could really break down the scriptures and reason on the 'deep' things of god.
After I met the Bethel elder at the hall I was assigned to, I should have left right then and there. After my first encounter with my roomate I should have beat his A$$ and then left. But like a good dumb, I looked at it as my test from god and tried to perservere. Even once gone from Bethel and pretty much disillusioned, my mind could not overcome the programing. There was always a dichotomy of what I wanted and should do, fighting with the WT$ programing to play it safe and try to stick with the org.
Now that I am out and free for the last 4yrs (it took 3 before I dared to look up JW's on the internet) iam finally at a stage where I can think a lil bit for myself without the programing kicking in.
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SPAZnik
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greendawn
For me fortunately I never totally stopped using my brain so there were many aspects of the JW ideology I never really believed, and I became inactive after only year through not being pleased with what I saw in their society.