WILL YOU kindly help me? (page 5)

VoidEater

Hi Terry: I'd be happy to be a reader and comment, if you like - PM me -ve

horrible life

My entire 21st year of my life was simply a waste in many ways (or, in every way.) I should have been in college. I should have been developing social skills which excluded delusional thinking and fantasy wish-fulfillments.

Good Cop/Bad Cop

It just dawned on me, that you would have had to go to war. With so many young men dying in this war, your chances of coming back in a body bag, was great. So in essence, the JW's saved your life. Please comment, and try not to be too loud.

UU Now

Good Cop/Bad Cop
It just dawned on me, that you would have had to go to war. With so many young men dying in this war, your chances of coming back in a body bag, was great. So in essence, the JW's saved your life. Please comment, and try not to be too loud.

They could have saved his life without his going to prison, though. The time he spent in prison he could have spent working an alternative service job and living "outside," in (relative) freedom.

Mum

UU and others:

Mum

UU and others:

I was part of a congregation in the late '60's in which there were two young brothers sentenced to work in hospitals in lieu of prison. It was considered a "compromise" to accept alternative service, so some savvy judges actually made alternative service the sentence - a real win-win.

Regards,

SandraC

edmond dantes

Hi Terry,

First off I'm sorry that you had to endure those events way back then in your life.Your timeline matches mine .I was sixteen when I started going to the meetings and not long after that was baptised , I lived in the uk and I reckon I'm your age .We had compulsory national service but it was abolished just before I was eligible for the call up. Luckily I missed it but I felt at the time that I would have gone to prison if need be and I often wondered about all the American Brothers and how they must be feeling having to serve a prison sentence. I don't envy you having to put up with it and it seems strange after all these years actually reading your account.

If it it brings any consolation my doubts about the witnesses started with a brother who fell away ,he had been inside for the same reason as you and I couldn't understand why he left the so called truth after he had been so convinced of it.I realised that he no longer believed and it must have been for a damn good reason this started alarm bells ringing in my head and I started thinking what does he know that I don't.I started questioning and eventually left and ironically a few years later of my own choosing joined the armed forces.What I am trying to say is that maybe you leaving the Witnesses after serving time for their beliefs set others on the road out of the nonsense.

What I would like to know is did you realise it wasn't the truth while you were locked up if so you must have felt gutted and alone or did you realise some time after when you were let out?

The crazyiness of it all is that I bet no one in the Jdubs gave a fig about your stand especially once you started to question the big lie.

Best Wishes Edmond.

horrible life

They could have saved his life without his going to prison, though. The time he spent in prison he could have spent working an alternative service job and living "outside," in (relative) freedom.

UU Now, so very true.

Mum Thank you. I guess its true in all bureaucracy, you have a small percentage of people, who think something out, and come up with a simple solution.

UU Now

Mum said:

I was part of a congregation in the late '60's in which there were two young brothers sentenced to work in hospitals in lieu of prison. It was considered a "compromise" to accept alternative service, so some savvy judges actually made alternative service the sentence - a real win-win.

The same thing happened with a couple of my oldest brother's friends, around the same time. According to Terry's account, his BOE specifically told him not to accept alternative service. I don't know if there was a doctrinal shift sometime during the war, or if this was another case of BOE-to-BOE variation.

tinker

I will be looking forword to reading your work of 'fiction' for myself. In 1968 I was a young sister in So Cal. A brother was sentenced to prison for draft evasion and asked if I would write to him while incarcerated. I did agree but only on a brother / sister type basis. He began to write 'love' letters and preaching to me of our spiritual future toghter, like it was a done deal. His parents practically had us marrried the day he got out....yikes, I had to put a kabosh on it and they hate me to this day for dumping their boy.

sorry, I guess I should write my own book.

Did you write about any romantic interests your character may have had? Was there a 'girl back home'. Where you homesick?

R.Crusoe

T '..it aint pretty!' Exactly!

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