So what will they do now.....? (page 2)

luna2

If, at the age of 75 or later, you came to believe that the WTS wasn't really the "truth" but the "untruth" and you'd wasted you life, rejected your children, and lived for a future Paradise that was never going to come to be....it would be pretty tough to take. (It was tough to take at 48, believe me...at least I hadn't rejected my son or my non-dub family). Some people would try to mend fences with their family and live the remainder of their lives free from the cult as best they could. Some people would fall into despair and might consider ending it all in their pain and anger. Some would crawl back up the WTS's butt, cover their ears, sing "lalalalalalala" so they couldn't hear anything they didn't want to hear, pretend that all was well, they were right, and Jehovah was their special friend until they died.

megsmomma

I feel like when it comes down to that point, all they can do is "hold on to the life they have always known". It would be too scary to face reality at that point and realize what they have accomplished in their lives is just slaving for a cult. How very sad that this is happening.

Brigid

Gill,

I don't have to imagine the scene (though you certainly have a gift for turning a phrase), nor do I have to ask whether or not a JW may face a day like that: This is my mother's life, though sans a partner to share the grief and misery with (again, a left over from JW-ism)....nothing to hold onto but the ever elusive hope of maybe surviving armageddon into a paradise...nothing to leave her children but the expense of burying her and the love she attempted to show us as a JW mother.....it is all she has, so I just let her cling to it without question.

blondie

I was late in leaving (probably graveworthy in the eyes of someone only 19) but I firmly believe it is only too late when you are dead. If a person has even a little light that the WTS way is the wrong way, they can make a choice to use whatever remaining time they have to good use. Today is the only time we have, whether we are 19 or 90, we don't know what tomorrow holds and there is no point in letting the past poison the here and now.

Blondie

avidbiblereader

Today is the only time we have, whether we are 19 or 90, we don't know what tomorrow holds and there is no point in letting the past poison the here and now.

Great comment Blondie, use what time we may have and as Jesus said anyone who looks back is not well fitted for the Kingdom of God, plow straight ahead. I for one believe there is an end coming, I choose to believe that at any given time in history we will be at God's appointed time, I use my time as if it were tomorrow. Who really knows, for ALL who say the end is coming; including the WT one day their proclamations will come true. It is about the lies in between that we need to discern.

abr

fokyc

NO Gill, I will be 86

Very well written, did you mention the Elders will still be lying? and the Sister that they sent to prison in 2007 will have just finished her sentence?

fokyc

Atpeaceatlast

To Blonde: You are so right. I was also 19 when I had a vision of sorts of the very same scenario explained earlier, and that's when I decided to leave. I just knew something was terribly wrong with "The Truth" and the feeling that this world wasn't going to end very soon wouldn't leave me alone (it's been 21 years since). I became depressed and devastated knowing my decision to leave also meant leaving behind the JW man I loved. But even so, somehow my gut told me I deserved better and to get out. There was no way I could live in the Watchtower world and I shudder at the thought of what my life would have been had I stayed.

Gill

VM44 - So you think that's why the WTBTS doesn't allow its members to own guns?! I think you may be right. I know I'm still spitting feathers at having been fooled for so long! I'm sure some ex JWs, have lost far, far, far more than me.....they could be 'spitting' somethings a lot harder and more painful!

Gill

luna2 and megsmomma - I'm sure that to some, at the age of 75, or even younger, to discover the reality of the WTBTS would be just too devastating to bear.

The day I realised I was going to die, and everyone I loved was going to die........well.....talk about change of horizons! You know what happens to an aeroplane when it loses its horizons......that's right! I crash landed! I'm still picking up the pieces!

What a fool! I have the time to adjust to my new horizons now....what if I had never had the time?

Gill

Brigid! I'm so sorry for your mother. I understand why you don't shatter her illusions though. To some, its a non recoverable scenario.

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