by Snowboarder 30 Replies latest jw friends
Snowboarder, welcome!
Live your dreams, base yourself in love, and you will go far. You know what you want so go get it. I am glad you know that the JW religion is not really what they claim it to be. Bail on this cult, Dude, bail!
according to the Olympic team of Canada i have no hope
Yeah... they said that about the Jamaican Bobsled team too. Ever hear of them? If not, check out the movie "Cool Runnings". Think about that... Bobsledders from Jamaica... but they made it to the Olympics.
to Heaven thnks....the Jamaican team is a real motivation and so the athlete from Ghana how only trained for learned to 6 years before he went to the Olympics... and if u want to to talk to me pls do i really lonely like no one under stands my case. and how i feel i can't talk to my parent...i called my grandparents who r orthodox they never were witness and they don't like my parents anymore first for not letting my visit them and beacuse they ruined my life and force me to witness..i'm really respect as a witness here but's it all fake....i really feel different....always in my life my parents want to fit in thier dream son...but i want to be me and to do stuff that i like....like windsurf and snowboard...my parents like other sports that i hate.......i feel like i was changed in the hospital given to the wrong parents....but this religion sucks and is full of crappy just can't wait to finish high school this year move out and save for one year for university ( and do graphic design...i'm going to move back to Europe far away from them.....well i don't get in the olympics plan b is to run for President of Bosnia and Herzegovina that's where i'm from and to change and improve the country and host the winter games if i can't then the young ones in my counrty i will invest in them and their win will be my win...i don't want any child to live their life like i did....u hardly know the pain i live though i lived in a war zone until i was 5 then to germany and then to Canada at 8... i miss germany....that's when my parents where not witness...
and if anyone want to talk pls do i really want someone to talk to.....really.....
can't wait to finish high school this year move out and save for one year for university ( and do graphic design...i'm going to move back to Europe far away from them
Snowboarder, I was a teen back in the '70s when I figured I couldn't be a JW based on many things (subjugation of women, blood policy, non-Biblical doctrines, etc). I put my plan together, got my driver's license, worked part-time, then moved away from home after graduating from high school and went to College. I got real busy with life.
Sounds to me like you've got what it takes. You go for it. What you focus on expands and comes into your life. Keep focusing on your dreams and goals.
I also was stubborn about letting the JW cult steal my family. I always maintained contact with my folks even though at times it was not easy. I am now helping my aging, ailing Father. My parents weren't as bad as a lot of others but there were some rough patches.
Here is an exercise that I have always enjoyed and think of from time to time:
Envision yourself on your 80th birthday. What would you like this day to be? Who is there with you to help you celebrate? As you reflect back on your life, what do you want to remember about it? Do you have any regrets? Did you do the things you wanted to do?
Stephen Covey's books "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "First Things First" have helped me to overcome a lot of the crap piled on me in my childhood by this cult. I wish I could have read them when I was a teenager but they didn't exist back then. I highly recommend them.
First, welcome to the board. This one is more of a mental and emotional workout than a physical one, but like snowboarding it's spiritually rewarding if you bring the right attitude!
I'm behind on school beacuse i reg pio
Do something about that. Don't short-change yourself by compromising your education. You have only a few months left, so just do what you must to get the most out of your high school years.
Like you, all my relatives are in Europe and are not Witnesses. My parents came to the U.S to give us good opportunities. 5 minutes after arriving my Mother was contacted by the Witnesses. SLAM.....all door were closed to us kids as far as taking advantage of the opportunities to be had here in terms of education, sports, travel, friends, clubs etc. We were stuck in some Kingdom Hall with a bunch of backward people being taught that the world was going to end any minute and our father would be destroyed for having studied with the Witnesses but didn't get baptized. Looking back over the years I realize now that I could have appealed to my relatives for help in getting out of the cult. If they knew what was going on and that I was being taught that they were going to be destroyed, they surely would have intervened . I didn't think of it when I was a kid. Maybe this is something for you to think about ?
TO Heaven i well i have my plan set out to and i have a back up plan...i'm getting my licensee when i finish high school i will move out and save for one year to afford University.. the Uni school i want to take is 4 years long after that i'm moving back home to sweet Europe i had enough of it here it's nice but i would like start fresh ....i'm going to give my dreams a shot and if it does not work well...it would be on of the things i regret i will try again....my life is mentally hard my dreams at night r nice to fall asleep to... i have other goals and one is to Run for President for my county BiH...i hate service i really feel bad for the people i talk to i feel like yelling i hate this crapy....but i do it for love my parents and for peace in my house.... Life just sucks some have it hard others easy....my life is hard....the other day i service i was like snowboard is my way to cool off. the brother was like why do u need to cool off? i felt like yelling u know why....one my life sucks my parents don't support my dreams..i miss my homeland i hate every second of this crap . i miss my family and my loving grandparents...i did not board for days i'm sick really bad but i'm going out tomorrow...my parents r crazy...i had agreements where i was ready to leave for the embassy and renounce my citizenship o canada because of them... i don't know how to tell them that i hate my this religion...i felt like this a few years ago i called my uncle in germany who every year offers to pay for my ticket to visit him(but i can't visit because he's not a "JW")..i told him i miss them and i really feel sad and depressed at my life...he offered my help to move back...i was stupid ...there was a article in the WT that parents have the right to check their children's email i got a email from my uncle but i deleted the sent email..that was smart..it was a long agreement ....i regret my actions that i did not do something then....i have no friends now....i really sometimes feel like dying...but i fight it i bottle my feelings.....words can't descibe my pain i still have effect from the war that occurred back home and this makes it harder....i cry on my pillow at night i wish for a better future....i can't wait for change...
@GLTirebiter true.... a mental war....well i will catch my tomorrow i will just take a highlighter and guess the comments on my watchtower write scribble for comments and just do homework instead of that crap....recently ever one is taking about failed dreams and how everyone left sports for jehovah and how some pro learned the truth and left the NHL...i think these people r smoking pot here....what do they spray in their bible in Bethel....i have a right to question teachings from the governing body...i told my parents this how because according to the one of the DVD in medieval times people quested the teach i question the governing body like the church the governing body hates when people questions them i also mentioned this i see here a doulbe standard question your church but don't question us?? last week i felt like saying during the meeting that the GB is more like a board of CEO's in their picture all together.....
@exwhyzee life is hard....i wish i had more friends to support me i sick and tried of doing it all on my own but it's going to be like this....
well it's late i'm going to bed...anyone want to talk to me pls message me or right here....i really need a listening hear..
----going to cry now about how i miss my family...my grandparents r the only ones that support me....but their a ocean away....