I only did it cos I'm a lazy barsteward.........oh yeah....and I'm an anticrust
WE ARE SURVIVORS
by Hopscotch 16 Replies latest members private
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Hopscotch
Quote from Wobble
Instead of calling ourselves ex-JW's we should call ourselves Survivors of Dubdome or SODS for short!
Good one wobble.
Hopscotch
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gubberningbody
Before I became one, I thought that if God was looking for any "elect" he was looking for those whose hearts were wise enough to reject all the organized religions. I'm thinking that I was right after all.
The unifying factors for worship should have been love and that's not what you find when you "keep on knocking", and the door is opened to you and others around you say "don't go through that door, wait on Jehovah!" and you say "but why did Jesus say keep knocking then?"...
It's like they become the very sorts of people that the Bible warns against...
"you do not go in, and those on their way in you prevent from going in".
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Hopscotch
I just thought I'd bump this up for all the newbies who have arrived here in the nearly two years since I first posted this thread.
It is now over two years since I have had any contact from my JW family and most of my so called 'friends since they decided to cut me (and my husband and son) off dead for the sin of no longer wanting to be a JW after 40 years of being one. (My husband and I are only faded, not df'd or da'd and my son was never babtised).
The pain is still there for me, especially when I think of my nieces and nephews growing up and not being able to be a part of their lives. And my husband and I are still living with the consequences of the decisions we made many many years ago as regards to education, careers and finance - after all as it said in the 1969 Awake we were never going to get old so why waste time getting an education and planning for the future.
But we would never ever think of trading any of this pain for the conditional love we would get if we went back to the JW fold.
So at times when the sadness and sorrow of the past rears its head we remind ourselves just how strong and brave and smart we were to survive all those years in that cult and then take the enormous step of leaving it.
Wishing our newcomers all the very best as they travel their own journey out of the JW organisation and find their own freedom.
Hopscotch
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compound complex
Good to see you again, Hopscotch.
Thanks for your story - our story.
Love,
CoCo
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smiddy
Good for you Hopscotch a nice thread to "resurrect"
smiddy
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cameo-d
Not just survivors....overcomers!
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life,.....
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life