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Legate

Greetings all

It has taken a while but I feel I should introduce myself. I won't bore anybody with too many details. Just that I am an ex-Jw, inactive and well... disappointed. Everything I was raised on promised so much more than the society has delivered.
Ok so what else? I'm not a big poster. I don't know how you guys do it. Between work and University I don't have the time. But I will try to drop by a few times a week to at least keep in touch. Other than that I am doing a Social Science degree at the moment, with a little religious studies and philosophy. So my time is rare and if I'm not working I am always reading!!! As for what I believe, I'm not sure. I am still young enough to still be working that issue out.
If anyone wants to email I have listed it as open as I would like to make a few friends. I promise to at least reply to any emails I receive. As you all know leaving the fold depletes your supply of friends. I would especially like to get in touch with anyone in their 20's. No offence intended but it is good to know few people your own age.

Russell

individuals wife

Hi Legate

Nice to meet you here.

Bore us with too many details?? Nah, not us! I know what you mean about work and university and time.... I always seem to be watching the clock these days - it's hard to fit everything in isn't it (especially with my 3 kids as well!) Still, I feel it is SO important to make time to come here, it is the only place I can go where people understand the problems associated with leaving the org, it has been invaluable to me and also serves as a constant encouragement. My heart literally leaps everytime I see a newbie here, it is such an achievement for someone to walk away.

I can also understand what you say about losing your supply of friends, when I left the JWs I had no friends at all in the 'world'. It was a very lonely place for a time until I got myself sorted out with college and volunteer work, the friends I have now are unconditional friends, they aren't my friends just because I belong to the same belief system.

I would especially like to get in touch with anyone in their 20's. No offence intended but it is good to know few people your own age.

No offence taken.... too old to qualify.... 30..... 'sigh'.....

Teirce

Yes, the number of friends go down right out of the org, but then it picks up exponentially, online at least. What people call friendship inside that event horizon actually defies the laws of physics, and is not *actually* friendship in every sense of the word. It is at most a form of long-term acquaintance, subject to complete dissolution.

Moxy

welcome, legate. nice to see yet another intelligent and educated individual who got out and lowered the collective average IQ inside by doing so. and it sounds like your studies will bring some interesting points of view to the discussion table here so i hope you stick around a bit.

mox

sleepy

Hi Russ

Nice to meet you .
I need to get to know new people too.
I'll try to email some time.