Here I am send me.

by LIftsong 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • LIftsong
    LIftsong

    Like an awful lot of people on this site I have spent far to much time trying to rationalise my thoughts and my journey as a human being. I have been to places of deep despair and resurfaced looking the same, months or even years later but the internalised Paul changed. With this in mind let me ask you something, humour me for a moment. Can you remember what it was you were thinking or even doing, say 7 years ago on March the 14th at 9.43am? I very much doubt it! Now conjour up a picture a tree that is in your life somewhere, in a park or a garden, or maybe one you pass everyday that you have become accustomed to. This tree has a place within the peripheral area of your everyday life, the same place where your toothbrush lives and the battery in that drawer you have you never get as around to clearing out. It has no real importance to you but It has become an ingredient in the person you are and the place you currenlty live in.

    Now take those two thought processes and just allow yourself to know for a moment that the wonderful tree that plays out its own existence within its own time line didnt just become that way, and is still on it own journey. Even if you pulled up a chair and sat in front of it for a 100 years, be aware that you still wouldn't actually see it grow even though you did. the ifrst time you saw that tree when you did, it had become estbalished long before you. Just think about that for a moment. Now think about your past and where it has brought you to right at this moment. just allow yourself to be aware of the years that have past.

    The point I am trying to make is that if we allow ourselves to be aware of the bigger picture of our experience as a sentient being, to allow our perspective to move somewhere else within our minds eye for a bit. This process helps us alleviate the damage done within our pasts. If we allow our subconscious minds to see our world and ourselves from another perspective, and not just from the view at the end of our noses, life becomes a journey of excitement and planning. It doesn't just arrive like a ruddy great tree one morning! it got to be that way. Just like us.

    Whether you get what I am saying or not what I do ask is that you allow yourselves to think freely. Tomorrow is what you do today and all that. If you stop treading water in the wash of Armageddon and slow the thought process of who you think you should be and start thinking into action who you actually are, life starts to play out in the now. Whatever it was you were doing 7 years ago on March the 14th at 9.43am, was vital at the time because you were doing it, it is not very important now though is it? What is important is what yoU do in the next ten minutes and the next hour because you are in control of that. Not the organization or what your childhood programmed you to do with it, but YOU. That amazing beautiful you.

    This is especially true if you were born into the organisation I know, but totally accessible all the same. Just allow yourself to focus on the middle ground and just breath. Life becomes so much easier and a journey of self discovery. This is why the organisation does all it can to stop you thinking outside of the box. If the you within yourself that is there to put the track down for tomorrow is sedated through fear, you only ever have the raft of what you are told to cling to, instead of the ability to swim for yourself and those we grow to love during our lives.

    The organisation is a haven for those who want to be there and a prison for those who don't. It is not a being of perfection that would create such a environment, merely men.

  • thomas15
    thomas15

    I would contend that any environment, good intentions not withstanding, that is based on the purposeful misleading and manipulation of another human being is not a safe haven for anyone, regardless of any individuals feelings of contentment at the moment.

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep
    The organisation is a haven for those who want to be there and a prison for those who don't.

    You have been fooled.

    It is a prison for both

  • Borgia
    Borgia

    quote

    The organisation is a haven for those who want to be there and a prison for those who don't. It is not a being of perfection that would create such a environment, merely men.

    unquote

    agreed. A man made org. But a safe haven? ......more a haven for plunder and piracy .....

    Cheers

    Borgia

  • LIftsong
    LIftsong

    It is more about the ability to make an informed decision for oneself. If an individual is so immersed within the organisation that they are happy there, well there are worse ways to be lets face it. It is about a person getting to a juncture themselves to decision for themselves. Freedom is a basic human foundation block.

  • ex-nj-jw
    ex-nj-jw

    I agree with statement below.

    Freedom is a basic human foundation block.

    But, freedom is not something the JW's have. When you hold family; children and friends hostage from someone you take away their freedom to choose.

    Some, like me don't give a ratz arse who is being held hostage and we break away and live our lives. The JW's still have a way of tapping into our lives though whether it be from parents that withold serious medical information about themselves or other family members because you, as a heathen don't deserve to know that particular family member is very ill, they bring up the big A whenever possible to try to scare you into coming back, etc. It's non-stop, even when you put up your boundaries and don't alow them, they find a way to try to break it. As a non-jw you always have your guard up.

    Others, like many on this board stay because they can't imagine life without those people in their lives. So they stay, no freedom there.

    nj

  • ex-nj-jw
    ex-nj-jw

    Damn, now I have that stupid JW "here I am send me send me" crap in my head. Thanks!

    nj

  • LIftsong
    LIftsong

    Hey NJ

    The anger and frustration that permeates through this site and indeed wrecked a large part of my life, is mere testament that I am correct in my thinking. If a person gets to a point in there life that they want to move away from the organisation, it is of paramount importance that an individual does just that. Not remain in a half way house. I once said to a very close friend of mine that he was like a caged bear that had been set free, but no one had told him, he continued to wear a ring in his nose and growled at everyone. The only way to move away emotionally from the organisation is to see it for for what it is. It took me 20 years to realise that. I thought I had left the "truth" but I hadn't, not really. Thankfully it has taken my daughter only half that time. Fear is only effective if you allow it to be so. Trust me I really do know that;

    Fear:

    A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

    If you allow yourself to be lead by your emotions, they will lead you in the wrong direction which is why we can end up going around in circles. I no longer worry if the organisation is correct. I know it isn't and if I can help anyone reach that point that I thought i would never reach then I will do. Getting someone to think freely and see things from another perspective is part of our individual journey to emotional freedom and the hardest part.

  • LIftsong
    LIftsong

    Hey NJ

    The anger and frustration that permeates through this site and indeed wrecked a large part of my life, is mere testament that I am correct in my thinking. If a person gets to a point in there life that they want to move away from the organisation, it is of paramount importance that an individual does just that. Not remain in a half way house. I once said to a very close friend of mine that he was like a caged bear that had been set free, but no one had told him, he continued to wear a ring in his nose and growled at everyone. The only way to move away emotionally from the organisation is to see it for for what it is. It took me 20 years to realise that. I thought I had left the "truth" but I hadn't, not really. Thankfully it has taken my daughter only half that time. Fear is only effective if you allow it to be so. Trust me I really do know that;

    Fear:

    A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

    If you allow yourself to be lead by your emotions, they will lead you in the wrong direction which is why we can end up going around in circles. I no longer worry if the organisation is correct. I know it isn't and if I can help anyone reach that point that I thought i would never reach then I will do. Getting someone to think freely and see things from another perspective is part of our individual journey to emotional freedom and the hardest part.

  • LIftsong
    LIftsong

    Oh yer real sorry about the flippin song It was meant with a sense of irony but i have it in my head now

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