The Generation(s) That Wasted Their Lives

by undercover 42 Replies latest jw friends

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  BluesBrother

  From the outside, it is sad to look at these ones, pursuing pipe dreams , having sure faith in things that will never come to pass.

  From the inside looking out, it is sad to see the ones who used to belong but have now lost their faith and have nothing but the reality of life in the twenty-first century to contend with...........

  They feel sorry for us, we feel sorry for them. In reality we all make a choice. They choose to avoid the difficult questions about their faith and just stick with it enjoying a comfortable routine. We choose to face up to life and look it straight in the eye and say "No" to beliefs that do not add up. We pay a price for that in terms of a reality check and losing friends and family. They take an easy option "go with the flow" and drift along to their grave.....

  It is up to the individual ....I would just like to point out some things to the young kids before they waste their lives....
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  talesin

  I got asked to Jr. High prom,,, and had to say no! Still feel robbed.

  and yes, it was Morgan Freeman. Saw him interviewed just a few weeks ago, and he said he thought (to paraphrase) "why should the kids' prom be ruined because of the adults' prejudices?"

  I wonder how those parents and school officials feel, now that they have been publicly shamed for their racist behaviour? I hope they 'learned their lesson'.

  and to relate it to the topic,,,

  I wouldn't want to have the regrets, that I KNOW my parents have now about the way they've treated their OWN CHILD (thus my earlier spin on the subject). They are not the only JWs that feel this way. They may not be here, they may still be practicing,,, but you can bet your ass they wish they had lived their lives differently, no longer have ANY hope of the paradise earth, etc. etc., and see no choice but to continue their lives as hollow, empty shells of the people they could have been.

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  designs

  OUCH! I'm that Lost Generation, but damnit I'm having a ball making up for lost Time....
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  doubtful

  Blues Brothers. Great comment!
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  Mad Sweeney

  I try to see my glass as half full.

  I got out with approximately half a lifetime to live FREE. Looking back can suck but looking forward there is hope.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwC1Ctrj6Xk
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  Magwitch

  BABLYRUTH:

  When my brother threw a baseball and broke our kitchen window my Dad seriously pondered weather he should replace it, because after all "the end is so near". The year was 1959

  I think our fathers may be related. This story is priceless
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  hybridous

  Great thread. Thanks for sharing these thoughts. I've had much of these, myself.

  It's correct, that, as a 'born-in', the world-view that is foisted upon you is...um...disfunctional. And this is what I see as the great hurdle that the born-in mind must overcome. The born-in must find a way to discard the JW worldview before too much time and emotion has been invested in supporting it.

  Once that inflection point point has been reached, all the exposed lying, all the false prophecies, all the non-sensical doctrine...none of it matters. Because now it's an emotional decision.

  BBro sizes it up very well. Although I would offer that choosing to remain in the JW Org can be anything but the 'easy option'. The life of the devout witness has plenty of obligation and hardships. Maybe easier in the sense that if you stay in, you don't have the 'burden' of thinking for yourself, making your own decisions, and fully bearing the consequences - the 'burden' of free and thinking human beings.
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  LostGeneration

  Good thoughts, everyone.

  When I woke up about three years ago, I was so furious. Mad at the WT, but also angry at myself. I too was told "You'll never get out of high school" and now it is almost two decades since graduation.

  The WT routine sucked me in quickly thereafter, and when the 95 generation change happened, I slept right through it, didn't notice a thing. A financially struggling newlywed with kids on the way, JW doctrine didn't mean a thing to me, I just wanted to eat! I think that keeps many of the young JWs in that get married around 20 years old, they just are trying to make a living on a high school education, they don't have time to examine the beliefs handed to them by their parents. Then before you know it 20 years pass and you are virtually a JW for life.

  I remember when I was around 13 years old, I thought I would generously give the WT 100 years from 1914 before I would even question them. That would have put it at 2014, I'm glad I got at least a few those years back from the WTS.
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  d

  I was told as a child that the end was near in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 and guess what it is 2011 and we are still here. Like it was said before the end comes when you die. Their is no afterlife.
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  breakfast of champions

  As a kid in the early 80's, I literally feared the end would come before George Lucas released the last episode of his epic Star Wars trilogy, 'Return of the Jedi'....
  If only Armageddon had come between Jedi and Phantom - it would have been almost worth it!