by Gill 35 Replies latest jw experiences
I'm sure sorry ts been tough. I feel for the lost souls, my own mom, bless her nasty backbiting heart, is one just like your parents.
If you REALLY wanna throw em for a loop offer them rides to and from meetings!
Monster truck is entirely optional, but I find it helps.
Rollerdrunk
Changeling - You are so right that in the end, all that matters is that immeadiate family are no longer trapped in the bOrg.
Leaving WT land was a nightmare to someone such as myself. I actually 'believed' it all even with some quite serious doubts and unhappiness about how horrible people in 'God's only true religion' really are, including my parents and extended family. I always wondered how, if this were the only true religion, why were they such as nasty, backbitting, gossiping bunch of slanderers....in general of course.
Finally deciding to leave, and actually believeing that I was committing suicide by leaving and causing the death of my children by doing so, I had a breakdown that took years to recover from. The only thing that saved my sanity was a psychiatrist, an excellent counsellor and lo and behold the much maligned by the WTBTS, the Internet!!! So many sites with information that can set a mind free and heal it!!
So, though I used to cry constantly and shake persistenly in total terror over what I believed from the WTBTS, I discovered suddenly that it was all a big fat LIE! I stopped fearing shunning and began to see it as a 'fun' and 'liberating' experience! It was something I could ignore and a challenge every time a JW ignored me to smile and wave kindly and FORCE them to acknowledge me!
All that matters is Freedom of yourself and the the ones you really love the most!
RollerDave! The monster truck idea is excellent. I think it really does throw them when you WANT them to continue being JWs. The funny thing is that I really DO want them all to remain JWs. Imagine how expensive Christmas and Birthdays could get if they all left the WTBTS!!!
However, as time has gone by, what I 'feared' most was really something not to be feared at all but instead a great liberation.
Yes Gill!
nvrgnbk - I found that all those people I thought were 'bad' because they didn't 'worship' the WTBTS were in fact much kinder than the JWs. There is nothing to fear from 'nasty and judgemental' people attempting to shun you! It's the best thing that can happen!!
It's the best thing that can happen!!
It really is Gill.
"but I do have a secret snigger when I consider their shock one day when they do realise, one way or another that they were conned! I know that day will come and I do feel only a little bit sorry for them because they have been warned many times." My parents...both sets of them,are like yours. I honestly don't think that day will come. The society is truly awesome at changing their beliefs at the drop of a hat...."the ever shining light getting brighter".........I am fairly confident they will die as witnesses.......and also that the Witnesses will be around when I die....of old age (hopefully). which makes me sad for them, and the generations that will follow them into a world of a mind controlling , profit driven, elitest relig. oh well.
