Back from New Orleans, ready for DF announcement! (page 6)

leavingwt

Strength to you!

During the next days and weeks you most likely experience a wide range of emotions. Keep your chin up and know that things will get better.

SweetBabyCheezits

Thanks, CJ, George, LWT, and ataloa.

Yeah, LWT, I've had some rare, short moments of this odd intense anger (the only time I've cried about this BS) but it isn't directed at anyone in particular. It's crazy.

I don't blame my JW family. I don't blame the elders. Haven't really blamed the old codgers on the GB even. (Though in one of those rare moments, I gave a dead Rutherford a good cursing because I needed a face to put with my anger. Yeah, it was ridiculous.)

I have a certain anger towards abstract things like religion and superstition but that doesn't give me any relief.

I've grown to detest the bible, because of how people use it and because it CAN be used in such a way, despite the fact that it was supposedly authored by an omniscient being. So, unfortunately, sometimes I feel a kind of anger ... well, maybe frustration is a better word.... towards people in general who put so much faith in "holy books"... not really individuals.

(Sorry, believers, but for many, faith trumps reason and my parents value their faith over our relationship. Since it seems all traditional faith boils down to the same particles - trust in an deity - it's hard to isolate one from the next.)

zoiks

Thanks for sharing this leg of your journey with us, SBC. Strength and peace to you and your family as you embark on a new phase of life.

The road goes ever on and on...

letsslatejws

Woe SweetBabyCheezits thanks for sharing your story with us. Keep your chin up high and dont let the buggas get you down :0 Enjoy your FREEDOM .......

dysfunction

The way your dad treated you should have answered any doubts you might have had. You know you do not belong in an org where it teaches lack of love instead of love. Your kids do not need to observe this either. I am happy that you had the guts to ask the questions, and take the lonely road that few dare travel for fear of the unknown. I am just starting this road myself, and I know that the sh>>> is going to hit the fan, my parents have been in the org for over 30 years, elder and pioneers. However, I know that we only have one life to live for now... and I perfer to live my life happy and with a clear conscience... Well congrats to you and the fam.

TMS

SBC,

Several aspects of your handling of this stand out:

You kept your poise. Our emotions can get the best of us when we are being maligned. Of course, seeing the elder tribunal as made up of frail, misguided, but well-meaning humans helped.

You were in control. Knowledge is power and you did not waste your understanding of Watchtower procedure.

You were unselfish. It amazes me that you were more concerned about using a the proceedings as a vehicle to enlighten others than in your own self-defense.

Your father's reaction saddens me. I was in his shoes seventeen years ago when my son was df'd. Without hesitating, thinking or even consulting my wife, I said: "Son, why don't you come back home?" That began our unraveling as JW's. We're still healing. I can't help but think that the character and consideration you've displayed in this whole affair came from somewhere. I have hope for your father's thawing.

tms

cognizant dissident

SBC: The way that you and your wife have handled this, you are a class act all the way.

After the adrenaline rush of it all has settled and life settles into a bit of a boring normal routine, you may start to feeling the loneliness and missing your old friends and family a bit more. Just ride it through. It'll pass and come around again from time to time, but it always passes again.

A bit of bittersweet now and then, does not mean you've made the wrong choice.

Hope4Others

How extremely said saying your goodbyes. I'm really happy you have your wife with you in all of this, it

will make life much easier to get through together.....

yesidid

Well done SBC.

Your letter must make at least one of the elders think, at least one.

I feel sorry for your father. He will spend many hours sadly remembering how he treated you.

You will have sadness too, but not from a guilty conscience.

Hugs to you and your family.

yesidid

Back from New Orleans, ready for DF announcement!

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