by bottleofwater 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Here we go again: What do I do, what do I say, what do I do, should I do this or should I do that, etc, etc, etc.
When making major life's decision ask yourself- what is the possible upside? What is the possible downside? If you aren't able to handle the downside, then don't go down that road, until you can handle it.
I didn't go to mine. No regrets.
Love your post Moshe. That's the question I always ask of myself when faced with a dilemma. Best case, worst case. Can I live with it?
Why ask other people. There are a thousand posters here, you will get a thousand opinions. None of the posters here have to live with the downside of your decisions, YOU do.
So ask yourself, am I willing to live with the consequences of my decision?
if your dfing is being announced friday, you've already had it?
You bring your mom and the JC will through a real guilt trip on you. "Why you wouldn't want to disappoint your mom, would you?" I know my one son was brought in front of the JC years ago. He wasn't baptised so there was not much they could do to him so he talked back to them and my ex would tell our son to not be so disrespectful. He said he told his mother. "well they don't respect me so why should I respect them?"
She chose to bring you up in a religion that treats their non believing children badly.
She encouraged you to get baptised while you were not at an age to make such a decision.
She glossed over 130 years of failed prophesy, and didn't take that into consideration when she was advising you.
She was supposed to protect you from harm and she failed.
Tell her to take some responsibility for her actions and get her COBOE husband to call the bloody dogs off her son.
None of this is your fault. You, and I, were just innocent children with no notions of killer gods and demons before our parents put them in our heads.
Another idea.
Blackmail.
If it's good enough for them, its good enough for us.
Tell her you will go to the JC if she gives you a list of years of the Babylonian kings from Nebuchanezzar to Nabonidus, showing which king reigned in which year, quoting her sources.... and.... it has to back up WT chronology. No excuses. No changing the subject. No re-phrasing the question.
Everything has to be honest and above board and if she can't do it she has to tell her husband to call the dogs off until he has a king list to give her to give to you.
The longer you leave it before you confront your parents with the reality of their poor choices, the harder it is for them to admit their mistakes.
Mine had been 'in' for 65 years before they had to confront the implications of their poor choices. I feel sorry for them but....... It was their choice ... I have to live with my choices just like everybody else on the planet, why shouldn't they??
((((Bottle))))
