I found out that 'I could walk' about three years ago. I stood up and 'I walked'.
Five years ago, I was trapped in the Watchtower 'Wheelchair' believeing that only 'they' could make me a good person through their interpretation of the Bible. I thought I needed that organization to make my decisions for me based on their current interpretation of the Bible. I thought I was unable to think for myself and even make good decisions for myself and family.
I thought I was a cripple and that crippled state was supposedly brought on by a mythical man, Adam, who ate a mythical fruit offered to him by his mythical wife, Eve. Because of that, I would need this supposedly God given book publishing company to be my 'legs', otherwise I was doomed to destruction in the ever approaching war of Armageddon in which God would destroy everyone who did not follow the rules of the Watchtower Society. I had believed them all my life that 'I could not walk.' So I sat in the 'wheelchair' of their making, allowing them to direct my every move and every thought.
But one day, what they said made no more sense.
I stood up. I got out of the' wheelchair' and I put one foot in front of another. I found my decisions were good. I found that I could think for myself and make excellent decisions for me and mine and I walked away from that 'wheelchair' every so often looking back and wondering what I could do to help all those still strapped into their own 'wheelchairs'.
Talking is the only way to help those others out of their 'crippled state'. The Watchtower cripples its followers by forcing them to believe that only the Watchtower Society can provide the path to life. Infact, what the Watchtower Society offers is nothing but a bag of lies than many a con artist would be proud to have contrived.
They offer an impossible prize, 'living forever in paradise on Earth with no problems'. The simple cost, is total obedience to their every direction which are cunningly twisted and formed from contrived scriptures from the Bible. Regular financial donations are very helpful in gaining that impossible prize! How clever!
And all the time, these very cripples are capable of making better decisions for themselves and their families, but they have become so afraid at what the Watchtower tells them that they no longer even dare 'put one foot in front of another' in their own lives and do exactly the same to their children. They live a life of fear of consequences, fear of living, fear of decisions, fear of succeeding, fear of education and in the end fear of their very own shadows. They become crippled by the Cultic rules and control of their master, the Watchtower Society who says 'You can't walk without US!'
It is a BIG lie. Probably one of the biggest lies ever told in human history, and so many of us fell into its trap.
Let's not forget those left behind in the clutches of the Watchtower!
I am regularly tempted to just walk on and forget them! After all, they appear to have chosen to be cripples.....instead, they fell into a very clever trap!
Keep talking to 'your JWs'. One day, they too may wake up and discover that they can walkl!!
magoo