Have you gained more than lost? (page 5)

compound complex

I find myself feeling like I've gained more than I've lost in this life overall.

SPAZnik:

That's the only way to look at it ... thanks!

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lost membership in a magazine sales and publishing company, mmmm not really a loss ...

Gained everything!

Carmel:

No great loss - and here I thought it was a religion!

Thanks!

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How could I continue to support a lie? There is no cost in searchig for truth.

Doofdaddy:

The best things in life are free - really ... The sense of freedom that we now experience is beyond compare. I am trying to be as honest as possible in all things at this stage in my life - it ain't easy but I'm tryin'!

Thank you for your thoughts.

AlyMC

Absolutely. I've lost certain relationships, but I've come to feel that I'm not loosing much. I don't want those people by my side anyhow. It is freeing to know how they really feel.

I've gained so much... most simply stated, I've gained a life that I am so happy to be living. I used to not care if I dropped off the face of the earth. I now desire to keep living my life, because I enjoy it.

R.Crusoe

I have gained weight and wisdom whilst losing any chance of romance and loved ones bonds being enriched by passing years.

The other way around would have been much better for me but then that is not in my nature!

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My only regret is I didn't get out sooner.

Hermano:

I've read that some escaped after just a few years - relatively unscathed - and others (moi) after several decades in the ORG. Reparative therapy, in the most basic sense of the term, differs for all of us. I feel pretty good now after two years out. I was exposed to the JW's from the early 1950s.

Thanks for your contribution.

compound complex

I now desire to keep living my life, because I enjoy it.

AlyMC:

Despite the wonderful promise of eternal life in the New World, I was never truly happy in the Truth. No need to explain ... you know - the usual reasons. But now, like you, I WANT TO LIVE!

Thanks!

Awakened07

I lost 'everything', but since 'everything' turned out to be nothing in the first place, I didn't lose anything after all.

Since then, I've gained a lot of knowledge that I'm happy about, and I'm in the slow process of gaining a few close friends. I think I'll emerge on the plus side.

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I have gained weight and wisdom whilst losing any chance of romance and loved ones bonds being enriched by passing years

R.Crusoe:

I, too, have gained:

Weight ...

Wisdom ... ?

Without going into any personal detail on the losses you've referred to, I can only hope that you might find whatever you seek. Even if you don't know yet what it is ...

Maybe we'll both be surprised where life takes us!

I appreciate your reply.

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I've gained a lot of knowledge that I'm happy about.

Awakened07:

That knowledge - once mostly off limits to us - has opened my eyes to an entirely new worldview (no reference intended to The New World - unfortunate similarity there). I have somewhat of a struggle getting past years of the WT's continual admonition to shun all information outside the provenance of the FDS: empty philosophies and traditions of men ad infinitum, ad nauseum ...

Thanks for your response.

Have you gained more than lost?

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