so how is your conscience now?...changed a bit?

by oompa 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • oompa
    oompa

    well mine sure as hell has......i first started cussin worse than a sailor.....then i realized that i had led a double life since third grade anyway...so why stop now just because i totally woke up...and my jw wife is still a zombie?....and since i am now a fukkin MASTER at compartmentalizing....ya... just put all the crap in a box.....i can pretty much do anything....and live with it...put it away in a box.....

    so hate me already........but anybody else go through this??...............oompa

    and ya...btw.......i so fukkin hate this double life....dont know how long i can do this.........

  • shamus100
    shamus100

    Sounds like dubs still have a good hold on you. Da yourself if need be. Then your conscience will be crystal clear.

    Mine? Crystal clear. And I didn't DA. I'm lost... boo hoo...

    Take control of your life or let the winds blow you around - it's your choice. If you don't better yourself each and every day, you're falling behind.

    Oh, and contrary to popular belief that we're all just a bunch of drunk morons - stop drinking. You don't need god to be a good person.

    Ta.

  • Mrs. Fiorini
    Mrs. Fiorini

    I was lucky in that when I left the JWs I was living in a different state than the rest of my family. I could live how I wanted and they wouldn't know if I didn't tell them. Then I moved back to my home state and lived the life of the faded for a few years. When I decided to start living an authentic life in front of my family, most of them started shunning me even though I was not DF'd or DA'd. So I understand your struggle.

    Have you read Steven Hassan's book, "Releasing the Bonds?" It has some good strategies on how to nonconfrontationally help your loved ones out of the cult. I wish I had read it when my family was still talking to me. If you can get some of your family out, you won't have to live a double life, at least around them.

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    No more worrying because the end of the month is approaching and I haven't gotten in my one hour of field circus. No more worrying about "bad" songs. I listened to "sun worship" music without problems (and I have my "sun worship" tree up). No more researching something from a Washtowel or Asleep magazine or a book to see if something is acceptable.

    And no more answering to that Almighty Lowlife Scumbag Jehovah.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Oompa..What the Hell is Wrong with You!!..You keep doing the same dam thing over and over,expecting different results!!..LOL!!..................Do you know how long your going to go through this?..Untill you stop!..And..Do what you know is right!!....................Your not Stupid..Your just a Chicken Shit!!..LOL!!.......................Oompa you need to make some Adult Decisions..Your a smart guy..Do what needs to be done..You can`t Avoid it Forever!!..............................

    Laughing Mutley...OUTLAW

  • I quit!
    I quit!

    I guess my questions are: Why are you leading a double life? What are the reasons you can't just be yourself? Are you worried about what the witnesses will think of you or that you will lose them as friends. Are you worried about what would happen to your marriage if you made a clean break from the tower? If you have a wife you really love I would put all my effort into saving my marriage by showing her you still love her want to be a part of your life even thought you can't be a JW anymore. As for the rest witness let them take you as you are or to use and expression you are no doubt now familar with F them. At least that is how I felt and I still feel that way.

    About not knowing how long you can live a double life I just couldn't do it. I don't know if that was weak or strong on my part. I just knew I'd go insane if didn't get out of there once I stopped believing it. Not living a lie and keeping my sanity was worth more to me than anything even my marriage. I mean how can you have a good marriage if you are crazy anyway? There is no nice way to leave the Watchtower. They haven't allowed for that option.

  • bonnzo
    bonnzo

    whats a conscience?

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    oompa, I lived that double life for three years before I finally, and inevitably, left the dubs for good. Near the end of that three-year stint in hell, I had to be hospitalized for severe, clinical depression. I was in the hospital for two months -- that's what living a double life can do to you. I very nearly died, literally. I hope you never get to that point, but the dub-on-the-outside, apostate-on-the-inside way of life will wear you down until you finally have to make a decision.

    As for my conscience when I was a dub, these are the things that made me feel guilty -- not getting the minimal required number of fs hours/month (I was too braindead to lie), my skirt was a little too short (1960s), hating giving talks, hating going to meetings and fs, and wishing I was someone else who didn't have to go through all this crap.

    As for my conscience now, here are the things that make feel guilty -- not always being as loving to my family as I should, not contributing enough to the welfare of animals (my pet charity; excuse the pun), not helping my parents as much as I'd like, not spending enough time with my baby grandson. You know, the important things in life, not the shriveled, petty, little WTS rules.

    oompa, I believe you're on your way out of dubdom. The only question is when. I can't speak for others, but I can speak from my own experience -- sooner is better than later. You're a nice guy. You deserve better than this. Good luck.

  • JimmyPage
    JimmyPage

    To escape WT mind control I killed my conscience years ago. At least the conscience in the cult version of me. The real version of me is a lot more reasonable.

  • rebel8
    rebel8

    i so fukkin hate this double life....dont know how long i can do this.........

    (( )) Double life is lying. Keeping your religious beliefs, or anything else for that matter, private from others is boundaries.

    I don't know about you but the jws here make no distinction between the two.

    I've heard this book is good.

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