by KW13 6 Replies latest jw friends
I'm not talking just about being blanked by old friends and family or having people distancing themselves from you - i'm on about what the organization did to us. The days when so many of us didn't want to carry on and couldn't possibly or when there didn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel.
I feel better now but i still have my bad days - i cant believe the Society get to walk away from the chaos they create. They have blood on their hands!
The way in which religion is in the crosshairs now it may not be too much longer before that changes. We are allready seeing it with the Catholic Church and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
By posting all of our horrible experiences here on a public forum we are starting the ball rolling.
I doubt the WTBTS ever considered many years ago the vast reaching power of the internet. To have thousands of ex JW's together telling our stories and experiences for the whole world to see can be nothing short of a nightmare for the WTBTS.
My fade would have been hundreds of times easier if I had the resources that we now have here on JWD. Sunlight is always the best sanitizer. We know that there are alot of active JW's lurking here. They can't help but to notice that most of us are happy, healthy and successful.
You are right KW13, given the anguish and destruction they wrought in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people it's a wonder how their HQs didn't yet experience a close encounter with a truck full of agricultural fertiliser and motor racing fuel.
I know what you mean KW, the org has a lot to answer for in my opinion.
For me, the shunning doesn't bother me now I'm used to it. The jws have nothing to say that I want to hear anyway, so I might shun them if they ever try and talk to me again. It's the way they duped me into wasting over half my life trying, and usually failing in my mind, to be good enough to get into paradise, only to find that it was all a pipedream anyway, and that I'd been part of a high - control cult all these years. I'm far more angry about that than I ever will be about being shunned
I doubt the WTBTS ever considered many years ago the vast reaching power of the internet. To have thousands of ex JW's together telling our stories and experiences for the whole world to see can be nothing short of a nightmare for the WTBTS.
I remember they started having talks warning about the dangers of the internet in the 90's, but it was more to warn us of the perils of taking part in chat rooms. I doubt they foresaw what a powerful tool the web would become in the hands of those opposed to their teachings, but they sure know about it now.
They do have blood on their hands and they wont take responsibility for it. The best we can do is warn people of the dangers where its appropriate and maybe this cult operation will be shut down before your baby is old! ;-)
The way in which religion is in the crosshairs now it may not be too much longer before that changes. We are allready seeing it with the Catholic Church and that is just the tip of the iceberg.
By posting all of our horrible experiences here on a public forum we are starting the ball rolling.
I doubt the WTBTS ever considered many years ago the vast reaching power of the internet. To have thousands of ex JW's together telling our stories and experiences for the whole world to see can be nothing short of a nightmare for the WTBTS.
My fade would have been hundreds of times easier if I had the resources that we now have here on JWD. Sunlight is always the best sanitizer. We know that there are alot of active JW's lurking here. They can't help but to notice that most of us are happy, healthy and successful.
I agree, the internet is something the WTBTS have had little or no control over since outright banning would just arouse even more curiousity. As you say with all these stories, how can all of them be lies?
You are right KW13, given the anguish and destruction they wrought in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people it's a wonder how their HQs didn't yet experience a close encounter with a truck full of agricultural fertiliser and motor racing fuel.
Sounds like you've got a good plan ready lol
I know what you mean KW, the org has a lot to answer for in my opinion.
For me, the shunning doesn't bother me now I'm used to it. The jws have nothing to say that I want to hear anyway, so I might shun them if they ever try and talk to me again. It's the way they duped me into wasting over half my life trying, and usually failing in my mind, to be good enough to get into paradise, only to find that it was all a pipedream anyway, and that I'd been part of a high - control cult all these years. I'm far more angry about that than I ever will be about being shunned
Deceit is something invisible as you say, shunning is something open and easily spotted and you can deal with that. The fact the Society turned out to be a cult, something we all thought of as a beam of light in the darkness is almost scary. Its like an abusive parent. We never bit the hand that fed us, it bit us.
They do have blood on their hands and they wont take responsibility for it. The best we can do is warn people of the dangers where its appropriate and maybe this cult operation will be shut down before your baby is old! ;-)
Definitely, places like this for example are a consistent and mostly reliable source for information. I am definitely gonna keep any children of mine WELL AWAY from this cult. My mum already knows she ain't taking it anywhere near a meeting or on the ministry. ------------------------- What makes me sad is that here, on this forum we have lost some people who have taken their lives because of what the Society did. That is just shocking and horrific! You don't hear that being mentioned on the doors, the picture is very different indeed.
What makes me the maddest is the obvious sham job the whole thing is... anyone with an open mind, that hasn't been brainwashed by seeing the thousands of images of the faithful that survive armageddon while everyone else burns; those like us that have the nerve to see through the mind game it all is-we are the ones that aren't talked to, as if we're inferior. All over a sham job! Whenever one of them doesn't talk to me I want to punch their faces plain and simple... they look down on me because I see through the bull they're too damn stupid to see, and they follow that insult up by not talking to me. I'm sorry, but I want to do them damage sometimes. For all the pain they've casued me-over nothing; for stealing my family's minds-for nothing. And the whole thing isn't backed up with one iota of fact... damn! How can people be so damn stupid that they fall for this crap?
