Where do you think you would be now?

brinjen

Just a thought, wondering where does everyone think they would be right now if they hadn't found The Truth? I mean the real truth, not the WTS. Would you be single? pioneering? bethilite? use your imagination it dosen't have to be serious it can be humourous also!

erandir

I'll play along with this thought game:

I wasn't doing too bad for a new recruit. I was aux pioneering once or twice a year and getting at least 10 hours in each month. I was learning to overcome objections at the door and to use a scripture and leave on a positive note. Also, I was being used (taken advantage of) a lot at the hall and was good at following through on my assignments in the school. I was just starting to make the break-through from relying heavily on notes to being able to just use an outline and speak in my own words. I was offered to do impromtu talks (the last-minute talks when the brother assigned didn't show up). I was considered to be a good reader at the book study especially at pronouncing just like the society wanted (regardless of whether it was correct or not) all those old names and places. And I was taking the lead in field service and giving the prayers at the book study and field service meetings. They used me 4 years in a row to pass the "emblems" in the front row and up to the stage during memorials. I think I would have been a m.s. by now and probably aux pioneering all the time...or another path could likely have been moving to a spanish congregation and doing the same there...ms and aux pioneer.

But this is a silly question to me because the real truth is so blatantly obvious that eventually it would have reached me. I know I overlooked it for years, but it eventually got through to me...combined with my own observations.

MsMcDucket

I just know that I wouldn't be posting on here! Not that I'm not grateful for the site!

sass_my_frass

Back in my old hometown, sharing an apartment with an old pioneer friend, no longer partying, missing the love of my life, back on antidepressants, waiting for the end to come. I go back to my old job. My workmates call me 'Citizen Plain' behind my back.

ninja

I would still be annoying Albanian refugees,trying to convince them that they would be dead if they didn't join God's organisation,meanwhile they would be getting their own back on me by feeding me chicken and cold chips (french fries) with tomato sauce no matter how much I told them I didn't like it....they had a thing about cold chips and tomato sauce...I would rather eat a squirrel jobby

Crumpet

Bitter, resentful, self destructive, possibly dead, very lonely having pushed everyone away I imagine - as that is exactly the way I was headed. I never would have stayed in and didnt after 16 even though I believed it was the truth until 2 or 3 yrs ago.

GentlyFeral

When I discovered that I was actually in the Spoof rather than the Truth, I was so worn down that I doubt I could have endured if I hadn't made that discovery. I had already been inactive for about a year, and had no intention to return to field slavery. Study, too, was impossible – no nourishment in it at all. Because we had followed the Society's counsel for twenty years, we were poor – just recovering from homelessness, in fact – and unlikely to get much richer. My motto was "Life Stinks."

Something had to give – it gave. I spent the next ten years looking for spiritual power, learning to hope, and am now in the process of starting my own business.

gently feral

jelcat8224

hanging on by a thread, trying to keep my head above water in the org. I would be single. I would prob end up an old maid or married to a 'worldly' man. My depression more than likely would have consumed me either way. Might have ended up being a shut in knowing that I could never really do enough for the WTS no matter how much I did. My guilt and feelings of worthlessnes in God's eyes would have compounded daily. My future would have been worse than bleak. I honestly know I would have been anything BUT happy. Reading my journal entries from the years I was in, gives me insight into what I would have become.

jelcat

Carmel

one of the FDS... Always been a climber! carmel

nvrgnbk

I'd be dead at my own hands or in a mental institution.

Where do you think you would be now?

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