My story is to long to tell......

zugzzwan

I am new to this forum but I have for the past several days been reading posts from people that for the first time in 26 years have pasts, memories and feelings like my self. Suffice to say that I too was born and raised in "the truth". I have at one time or another been, a MS, a vacation pioneer, a regular pioneer, a disfellowship individual, a re-instated individual, publicly reproved, privately reproved and finally for the past 7 years a man who they don't even come on my property cause he's a nut who might shoot you and will at the very least call the police and have you arrested for trespassing individual.
Unlike so many others though I find no personal desire to rant or rage against the machine. I personally don't care if people are JW's as long as my children and wife are not.
I do not belong to any other religion because after all the years of indoctrination I as others feel that it is impossible to have a relationship with any form of God. However I am glad for one thing about having been raised in "the truth" is the abiding belief that if I'm wrong I won't burn in hell because like they teach I will just be asleep forever.

ThiChi

Welcome, I hear you. I look forward to your posts!

cynicus

But do you play chess?

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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

willy_think

zugzzwan Welcome Hi and Howdy
So you didn't come to rant or rage, well, that's good. To rage is to eat poison but ranting can help sometimes. I hope you get what you need. peace

looking foward to your posts
Billy

The Great and Powerful Oz:

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

VioletAnai

Howdy. Good to see you here. I was raised in the truth too, but I never dedicated myself. I ran away and got my life sorted and now I'm suckered back in. Please don't weep for me, I quite enjoy it.

I've got lots of luv to give, but no one wants it! - Mona.

Beck_Melbourne

zugzzwan

hey there and welcome...and guess what? The elders think all of us are 'nuttas'...so you're not alone there...but who cares. You are free of all that now...and you can look forward to better days.

You said: if I'm wrong I won't burn in hell because like they teach I will just be asleep forever.

I thought exactly the same thing...and like many others...when I first left I was obsessed with dying and going down with this system because of not conforming. My views have changed now of course.

Good to see you and hope to see more of your comments.

Cheers
Beck

Kep

Welcome Zugz,
You are right man, you have come to a place where many of the people here have been thru the same thing as you.
I felt the same as soon as I started reading in here.
It is good to know you are not alone with what you are going thru.
7 years ago I felt like I was the only person going thru some major crap.
But now I see it's happened to many good people.
Enjoy your stay here.
Kep

gravedancer

I would like you more if your name was jugs-warm

terafera

Welcome!

Always nice to see a new face and get a different perspective...

Dont be shy!

Xander

...if I'm wrong...

See, that's how my wife comments, too. It kind of bugs me.

I'm not wrong. *You're* not wrong.

THEY are wrong. Whether or not their bible even tells them what happens in the afterlife, the book isn't 'inspired'. It contains a lot of...well, interesting...stories. That's it. No divine revelation within. There are so many contradictions in it, so much question about its current state, it is useless as a book to build a religion on.

I as others feel that it is impossible to have a relationship with any form of God

If you mean 'the christian god' and christian teachings, I agree with you. If you haven't shut the door on spirituality yet, I invite you to think outside the box some. There are a LOT of other teachings out there - not controlled by a church or central body of men - that make for interesting comparison.

A fanatic is one who, upon losing sight of his goals, redoubles his efforts.
--George Santayana

My story is to long to tell......

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