by The wanderer 9 Replies latest jw friends
If you were captive to an ideology known as the “truth”, being enslaved
has taught you the harsh realities of life and its deceptive practices.
However, what advice could you offer someone who …
There are individuals here who are getting or have gotten their
lives together or back on track.
What advice could you offer someone who wants to do just that?
Respectfully,
The Wanderer
Off the top of my head, my advice would be to see yourself as a survivor.
'Imagine that you have just this minute survived the tsunami what would your thoughts be' - and I would then encourage that frame of mind.
I would prefer saying that people were hurt by the WTS. "Victim" sounds too much like there is no healing in the future.
There is no one size fits all solution to healing. Everyone's experience is unique to them.
Also, you address 2 groups of people, those whose eyes have been opened to the WTS tactics and those who are still blinded. So which group are you concentrating on?
Blondie
Read everything you can get your hands on about the wts. Something I see often in exjw's or soon to be exjw's is that they wonder if they are doing the right thing. For me, hanging out here was very helpful. The constant discussion about the way the Org handles things was very eye opening.
Be open to learning new things. Things you have been taught to fear, might teach you the most. For me learning about other religions and mythology in general has been very helpful.
Get involved with your community. Open up to neighbors and be willing to try something new. One of the things that the Organization relies on is isolating you from your friends and family. If they can get you so emotionally weak, they stand a good chance of you coming back. So, make New friends. Don't let yourself be isolated for too long a period of time, so soon after your departure.
Good luck to those who have left. It's not easy, but it is truly worth it.
The reason I joined the WT was because of love of God and the hope of a future life and something way better than what I have experienced and seen. The witness had almost ruined me and everything that I became one in the first place. There is really only one source of truth and it is not in man, man made literture, a GB, a organization, a BOE but rather in the Bible as our Lord and Savior said in John 17:17
After leaving the witnesses I would encourage one to turn to the Bible and beg God to open their mind and flush it out and let Him show that person the truth from His Word, When confronted with seeing something in the Bible and then remembering what the Organization has taught, printed or said. We are all faced with two choices
Believe God and His Word no matter what we have been taught, indoctrinated or heard
Or believe Man,
If I am going to err, then I will err on believing only His Word, be honest with oneself, why is it that I want to believe man over God, perhaps to limit my own liability before God, do I like being spoon fed or am I just lazy and don't want to do what I know the Bible says, and that is my own personal obligation before God to search Him out, to keep asking, to keep knocking, to keep digging, those commands were given to the human family, not 10-18 men living in NY.
Honesty and face up to the facts no matter how difficult that is, none of us like to look like fools by believing a lie, but what a bigger fool after it is revealed and to keep pursueing something that is plainly false comes down to rank stupidity.
abr
Learn without prejudice.
I would suggest having relations with a sheep through an oriface of choice.
Wanderer..Research..Do your own research..Find out for yourself..Asking the WBT$ or Jehovah`s Witness`s will not get you any truthfull answers...OUTLAW
I say never get your life "back on track" - abandon the idea of running your life on a track, unless you build it yourself or know exactly where it goes.
Instead, I say think of yourself as an all-terrain, 4X4 type vehicle.
But it depends on what you want. Some people are happy with the standard track of the average person with those same ambitions, and if that's the case by all means hop off the JW ride and on to that one, or one of that type. That is actually a no brainer. Otherwise, if one actually wants to move through life freely any track system will eventually be too limiting.
Were You A Victim Of The Watchtower Movement?
Yup... they shat all over me.
