this is a post for all those jw lurkers out there who were once like me but probably think they are all alone and that noone else is going through what they are...
Xmas day as a lonely JW is a real bitch! What happens is: you spend the whole day alone, knowing that all those JW familys in your area are all together today having a great time! You know that all the worldly people in your area are together with their familys having a great time! If you have a family thats not JW then they are also all together having a great time... but you can't join in...
So you sit there watching TV, all the xmas films coming on... showing familys together on xmas day...
But wait a second! Arn't you supposed to have this even better than blood family? Your spritual family? Who are supposed to show true love? Will they take time out today to call you? Will they invite you into their cosy family today? My experiance of 30 years of being a child of a single parent family then as a single sister was "no". Contact with my "loving spirtual family" on xmas day happened once in a blue moon. The JW's just didn't want to make room for an extra.
In short you may well be sitting there today feeling about as unloved and as unwanted as it is possible to feel. ( I know cos i've been there myself many a year) Ask yourself: Why would a almighty god allow his organisaion to treat you this way? Why are your brothers and sisters not showing the love they should? Why are you just not happy? And finaly... can you make it better?
The anwser is yes! I have to tell you that the religon you are in right now is treating you badly and doing things wrong for a reason: Its not the true religon! Read on this board and you will quickly find out that what you have been hearing from the platform for years is all lies. You will find here that the lies told you by the watchtower can be torn apart in seconds by over whelming evidence. You will also find out that people in the "world" are not evil like you have been taught, in fact i can speak from experiance that people in the "world" would never allow you to sit there alone on xmas day!
So ask yourself: do you want to waste your life being misrable, lonely and taught lies? Or would you rather embrace 2010 and make it your year to find happiness? If so, you are in the right place Ask away about anything to do with the watchtower and it will be answered. You will never be fobbed off with " we must wait on Jehovah to reveal that".
I end by wishing you merry christmas and a great new year!