"You can live a lie until you die"

Liberty93

Reminds me of growing up in the Borg. Thank god I was never assimilated!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7v0O8M5vKc&feature=related

(Man, figuring this out is a real you-know-what! :-p )

VampireDCLXV

Liberty dear, you really have to learn how to embed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7v0O8M5vKc

V665

VampireDCLXV

OMG! You're a newb! Dear me! Where are my manners? Welcome to this crazy place BTW. You must tell us your story (if it isn't too painful). Again, I bid you welcome.

V665

PS: Don't feel embarrased about saying you're new. So many people will want to say hi...

elderelite

A brave man dies only once, a coward dies a thousand times

Hadit

Welcome Liberty93! Please do share your story if you would like. We would love to hear it. So nice to have new ones coming out of the WTS.

I look forward to hearing more. I wish you all the best.

Hadit

beksbks

Elderlite! That is exactly what this guy needs to hear and know. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/experiences/199066/1/Help-me

elderelite

Wow, I was away for a few and missed that one... thanks beksbks

I'm not sure if there's much of a story in my case. I grew up as a JW. My parent's marriage started breaking down when I was around 8 or 9, and I started going kooky-wa-wa around the same time. I got into this really nasty cycle where the more neurotic I got, the more obsessed I became with the doctrines. It all came to a head when I entered puberty. Basically, I was walking on a field at my middle school one day, looked up, and said, "You don't exist anymore," and that was pretty much that. The next 10 years consisted in on-again, off-again battles with my dad about being browbeaten into going to meetings, which I began to win more and more as time went on. He tried to cut me off, or shun me or whatever, at one point, but he only lasted for a week before he had to call me again (heh).

So that's my really short story, and I'm stickin' to it. I could elaborate more about things like discovering Nietzsche (saved my sanity and put me into perpetual curmudgeon mode,) my mother leaving (thank god! I lived with her a lot after the divorce and don't think I could handle being in Witness-land 24/7), or the people at my old congregation (never got the memo that they couldn't act like my mother didn't exist, but also never went out of their way to talk to her.)

VampireDCLXV

Even a little bit of a story is good. Nice to hear from ya...

V665

"You can live a lie until you die"

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