Reaching Out

cluless

As witnesses we were always encouraged to reach out for the privalige of doing this or that or a whole lot of other stuff that doesnt make any scence now .

But its important in life to have something to reach out to.With me I have my wife my little kid and financial security (The kid came aftter I left the witnesses)

So now I could have it all. Only I havnt found anything to replace the importance of reaching out.as a witness (However misguided that reaching out was)

How about you? What in your life has replaced your once sincere belives and given your life the purpose you once had?

sooner7nc

You've answered your own question. Your wife and child. Believe in them, their love, and your love for them. If that's not enough, give back to the community.

Right now, working with elderly people and trying to help people out of their delusional god beliefs. Other times it's just been being there for close friends. You can even take time out to focus on just your own happiness. There's a lot of good you can do in one lifetime, and you don't have to do it all at once.

cluless

Thankyou for the reply sooner. Maybe I did answer my own question.

My wife and child yes . I accept that. Because nothing could ever replace them if I lost them. That is everything to me. But my job is a landlord and it really is so uncontributing to anything and I miss the social contact of the ministry. It was great . Even today all my friends came from the ministry. The ministry was everything to me. I would love to find something to replace it. I mean it was just a great way of meeting people. Funny that the baptists atheists muslims and jews became the loving teachers I triead to teach.

troubled mind

It use to drive me nuts to spend saturday mornings driving around all over the countryside knocking on doors . It was such an obvious waste of time , no one was ever home . Yet all we heard was reach out ...pioneer .( Waste more time and pollute the environment more is what I thought )

Now I reach out by being more in tune with people around me and what things would really help them . One example : A woman I work with is living in a hotel for the next month with her two small children.A fire caused smoke and fire damage to their apartment building . She is feeding the kids canned food warmed in a microwave . So I invited her family over next week for a turkey dinner. A very small gesture yes ...but something I think she and the kids will really appreciate . As a witness I may have not offered because we were so busy and it was discouraged to have worldly people over for dinner .

thepackage

Focus on your family and volunteer with a local non-profit. Maybe helping kids with reading and math.

tijkmo

I miss the social contact of the ministry. It was great

i did to..i loved it...and i have nothing to replace it with...but i also have no wife to share things with or child to teach things to.

most posters here hated the ministry (there are some exceptions obviously) but i'm not one of them. if you find anything that can replace it any way then please let me know.

AWAKE&WATCHING

I am trying to prevent people from getting mixed up in the cult to begin with by "informal anti-witnessing" every chance I get. Hair dresser, library, mechanic, chiropractor's office (two sisters work there and I am a patient) wherever. Informal witnessing was always my forte and I am quite good at doing the oppsite now.

My daughter has a friend who, along with her husband, has started a Bible study. I have given her questions to ask and alerted her to the protected pedophiles, the dispicable position on blood that in effect murders people and the fact that Jesus is not the rank and file's mediator.

I hope that at least one person is helped by something I post along the way.

cluless

Awake and Watching

Thats very selfless of you. I personally found the anti -witnessing I did was done with to much anger.

I personally cant belive how I have (counting them) 5 true friends from knocking on doors and none that will associate me from the congregation. As an illustration one is a doctor the other a cleaner one just a nice person the other works on a factoryline and the fifth is a guy that only needs his beer . But all of them are contented. I think because they never rationalised life. If they belive in God its personal not for discussion. As a witness we just think to deep.When we leave theres a void because life needs answers that cant be answerd.

serotonin_wraith

When we leave theres a void because life needs answers that cant be answerd.

I think this can turn into a purpose of life too- discovering answers. People who believed the gods controlled volcanoes had their own personal answer, except it wasn't real. People who accepted they didn't have all the answers, and who searched for them instead, are the ones we should give credit to. In the future, humans may give credit to those of us who accepted that we don't know all the answers today. Why should we know all the answers right now? We'll know more than our ancestors, yet not as much as our descendants, and I don't think there's anything wrong about being in that situation. It seems natural enough to me. We just happen to be born at this point in history.

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