Are you really free from the Watchtower?

by yaddayadda 41 Replies latest jw friends

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  esw1966

  Being a jw is a mind consuming passion. It affects EVERYTHING you do and think. Then there is the stupid question in the back of your mind whispering, "what if they're RIGHT?!"

  To get yourself OUT of it is a VERY tedious and vigorous mental activity.

  I am OUT! Yet, there are SO many issues out there that I have not addressed yet and when they come up I think of them from the old jw thinking. So these thoughts come back and you have to re work them.

  I agree that being on this forum can be damaging if done too much. I feel that when I get heavily into it I get more messed up. It becomes an obsession again to be right and them wrong and for me to get better mentally. It becomes a passion.

  At times, this site is very helpful! It has helped me very much! It is very therapeutic!!! But for me, it is best to live my life without looking back at a mistake.

  Because my whole mind has been conditioned by the borg it will take a lifetime to FULLY be free'ed! The less attention I give it the better. But when things do crop up, this site and the people here are WONDERFUL! They help me very much!

  I also feel it is important to be here to help others who are beginning their journey out of jwville. To be there for others as others have been there for me.

  I also feel that it is good to encourage others who have had their faith in God damaged by the borg. I am here to accept people and where they are now. I am also here to show others that there is something much better out there and not to dismiss it because they were once burned by religion.

  It is a good support group! One that I need and one that I show appreciation for by trying to help others that are in shoes that I once wore.

  Ethan
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  Wasanelder Once

  "They have simply swapped mental slavery to a religious organisation for mental slavery to a religious website. So the question is: until the day comes when you finally stop feeding your JW website addiction, can you really, honestly, say you are FREE from the Watchtower???" This is subject to the circumstance of each individual. I post because it gives me an opportunity to write. I love to write, and writing about something I know is more interesting. If you notice, I don't give a rats ass about the doctrines anymore. Though I do not tow the line of the Watchtower Bible and Crap Society, and am thus free of its domination, I shall always have brain cells that are infected. I probably irritate some that I don't write heavy dissertations on the various doctrinal questions, "Intellegent Design," etc. I have also tried to restrain from making wise ass remarks to those same threads. I comment on what I think would be fun to write about, or that I have passion about to some extent. I like that the people here know the BS I've had to put up with for twenty plus years and that keeps me coming back. I'm not on a campaign to convert or unconvert anyone. Its up to them. There are blondies and others who are fighting the fight. I just want to say "Howdy" and see what's up. Addicted? Nope. Addicted to Youtube? Perhaps. W.Once