by cognac 15 Replies latest jw friends
As I sit here, holding my precious baby girl, I'm grateful that the blood issue and d'ffing will never come between us. I'm grateful in the way that I can love my baby unconditionally because this cult won't ever come in between us. A love much bigger then me that I can't even comprehend but that I can simply take in and enjoy because I was lucky enough to be able to escape!
So, why are you happy to have escaped?
I'm glad because I can give my kids a more normal life than I had, too.
I'm gald because I don't have to feel guilty for not believing the unbelievable.
I'm glad because I don't have to be bored out of my skull at mind numbing meetings.
I'm glad I don't have to try to indocrinate people with crapola to save myself from a terrible death at Armageddon.
I'm glad that I don't believe that God is a big mean cranky bastard who apparently wants most of the people in the world to die.
I'm glad I'm not a self righteous know it all asshat JW anymore, because they don't really know spit.
There are too many things to number. But, mostly the fact that my children will not be raised in a cult, like I was.
I am glad that I can love more people, not just a very small group.
I am glad that I don't have to be so judgemental as I was taught in the organization.
I am glad my children could have free minds and that all five have graduated college.
I am glad I could enjoy this life more fully, not waiting for a new JW world to come.
I am glad I could develop my own conscience fully.
I am glad I don't have to spend so much of my time in something so unproductive and unfulfilling as door to door work and going to boring unstimulating meetings.
I am thrilled to be thinking fully for myself. I am thrilled that I don't try to force religion on people just to get my time in and try to earn everlasting life. I am happy that I recognize that "outsiders" are not the terrible people that WTS says "worldly" people are.
Tons more, mostly about removing judgmentalism and circular logic and fears and stupid obligations.
I can think of a lot of reasons. To many to list here but to sum it of I would have to say it is nice to not have idiots that don't know what they are talking about tell me what to believe and how to live.
Cognac you can also be thankful that your child won't have go through what JW kids go through at school standing out like soar thumbs and wasting their weekends knocking on doors instead of having fun.
Cognac, you have the best reason to be free of the cult....Your baby girl. How can anything top that?
Hubert
Cognac you can also be thankful that your child won't have go through what JW kids go through at school standing out like soar thumbs and wasting their weekends knocking on doors instead of having fun.
That's so true! I forgot about that!
Cognac, you have the best reason to be free of the cult....Your baby girl. How can anything top that?
Thanks Hubert! Whens the next meetup? I miss you guys! Plus, I want you to meet baby Cognac!
lucky baby, yours, cognac...
free to be who she is born to be
life outside the collective is wide open,
inviting, satisfying and exhilarating!
my role as mother to an incredible child
struggling thru the issues of gender dysphoria
has expanded my horizons extensively....
great network of people, so welcoming,
so humane and oh what is the word?
NONJUDGMENTAL!
life is incredibly rich and complex!
Namaste
Jeff
