Yes, I keep hoping to find someone that I used to know as a JW. But I can't even find the nerve to put my real country in my profile, so there's little hope of actually finding anyone.
Cellist
Ever want to just name, names?
by darth frosty 23 Replies latest jw friends
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Cellist
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geevee
Hi all,
Havent been posting much lately, but thought I would on this subject.
I have bumped into people who left for various reasons. When we tell them that we no longer attend, it is a very rapid fire conversation from that point, the whole Revalations to Genesis....undoing the crap. Talking about some of the books we/they have read and things we have discovered along the way.
It is great to see them free their minds too as we are trying to do. Life opens up.
One guy who was DFed, was rumored to be gay. That seemed to make the local flock happy, and they could justify their dislike of him. Turns out he has happily remarried and has two children. Not too much gayness there!
Another girl has just married her non-dub boy friend. She supposedly took the easy road! How easy is it to walk away fromeverthing and everyone you have ever known!
Another young guy was viewed as just being a JW slacker. Turns out he was put off by elders abusing their so-called power. He saw and experienced hypocrisy first hand, like many here. He started to use his own brain, reasoned heaps out and now he and his wife and son are free! They even let their son celebrate his birthday! How normal is that?
A couple who were friends came by for a visit a year ago. He had been dumped as an elder and I thought this could be a good time to talk to him, as we had been out for nearly a year. They spent most of the time staring up into the corner of the room and looking off into space, and then got going as soon as they could. He is still chasing around trying to find out when they will re-appoint him as an elder. What a sad waste of valuable life. Do I wish they would find their way here and have the balls to read on for a while? Absolutely!
I wish my own brother and sister would take a moment to consider the "truth". -
alotlikemay
geevee, I have stories like that too
one brother uses my parents' place as somewhere where he can just go and complain about congregation stuff and not get into trouble.
then he'll get all righteous and start witnessing at my parents or me if I'm there... but when we tell him the real truth back, he looks shocked and offended!
i want to know why it's OK for JWs to be rude about us - tell us we'll die at Armageddon, that we should be doing this and that - but when we tell them the actual truth of things it's a terrible thing and they say we've been offensive! you can't get more offensive than tell someone they're going to be killed by God....
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averyniceguy
I have tried to find someone in my past. Zandra disassociated years ago, I would like to talk to her again. Do you know anyone by the name of Zandra???