by coult9056 20 Replies latest jw friends
Um, that would be "reminiscing." Nice attempt, though.
I don't believe I could ever set foot in a KH again. I would go back to my old alma mater to engage in some reminiscing. But the memories of college are very good.
There's not much of the positive kind of memory associated with the KH. Just hours and days and months and years of wasted time. Utterly wasted. Gone forever.
I morn for them. And for my wasted youth.
Francois
I go to the hall quite frequently. I'm still technically 'in' (just inactive) and I have life-long acquaintances there that I enjoy seeing and talking to. I also visit them at their homes. It's been close to two years (I think!) since I stepped down and stopped going door to door.
In my opinion they have a lot of things right and they have a lot of things wrong. Their unwillingness to acknowledge their fallacies (more important, their refusal to admit that they CAN be fallible) is perhaps their greatest organizational sin...in my opinion.
I enjoyed your experience.
IMO they have next to nothing correct, but I believe they are basically good people and many of us here have more in common with them than we would like to admit.
What separates us is such a fine line and all I wish for is tollerance and respect for each other.
I could see myself going to an assembly session just to see it all from this perspective. I think that could be interesting.
Path
It's kinda like driving through the old neighborhood where you grew up, attended school, hung out. Just because we may not be there anymore doesn't mean we won't continue to have memories. It's a chunk of life. Heck for a lot of us it's almost a whole life. If we could just throw it all away and forget about it we would be little kids again.
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Coult, Frenchie. et al.
Thanks for sharing. I agree with you both when you give due credit to JWs for certain aspects of their lifestyle. Frenchie, their unwillingness to see their own fallacies is but one big problem with them; the one I find most upsetting is their stubborn refusal to see the good in anyone but themselves.
The JWs love to say ``out there in the world:'' Our spiritual progress really begins, and our journey as a JW usually ends, when we begin to realize that a good proportion of the ``world out there'' is populated by honorable, well-intentioned, caring, decent, often oustanding and admirable human beings, who love God as much, maybe more, than we do.
Hey coult9056, I have been out for almost 4 years now.. and i used to go to that assembly hall for over 15 years.. it is a very pretty place.. i used to sit and imagine it as my house when i was little.. wondering where i would put my bed.. i always thought above the stage.. lol.. Do you remember when we all got to help repaint it and stuff like that.. i got to paint at the very top.. outside.. around the window trim..i was about 13.. i felt so proud to say look i painted that.. lol.. that was when those ugly orange curtains where still in there. thanks for the flashback:)
Alright! Another Hoosier apostate. I'm down in Evansville but head up to Indy every couple of months to take my son to Riley.
Don't sweat the thought about every going back. Its like saying you might like to go back to getting analy gang raped by hairy midgets (sorry if that has happened to you or if you're a hairy midget into group sex). You may go back to where it happened but you certainly wouldn't want to go through it again.
Back down the bullies to the back of the bus
Its time for them to be scared of us
Hey Rhett: Did you know a family named Swan? They were in Evansville. Mike Swan is a big guy (very overweight), wife Linda and 4 kids, all grown. He is my brother's former brother in law. Just curious about them. Still active.
Marilyn (aka Mulan)
"No one can take advantage of you, without your permission." Ann Landers
Family name doesn't ring a bell. What were their kids names? Do you know which hall they went to? I'm mainly familiar with people from the NW and some SW.
Back down the bullies to the back of the bus
Its time for them to be scared of us
Thank you Rhett. Yes I remember the ugly orangish, pinkish, cream colors.. All teal grean and cream now.. Very nice.
After we got back from our walk Sunday morning, my girlfriend gave me the tour of her mother's house where we spent the night. Upstairs, prominently display on a table in the hall, was a picture of my girlfriend graduating from Harvard University. Picture was dated June 6, 1991. I could'nt help but think of what I was doing at that time. Preaching. Preaching. Preaching. And to think the version of the truth I was preaching then is different than the truth today. AKA "generations" "Blood fractions", "separating work", etc.
Now, so often, I think about how much farther behind I am in life because I wasted so much time blindly following those people on the stage.
Now, I'm going to Purdue University and can't wait to graduate in 2-3 more years. But I always think that there is some young, talented, intelligent, enthusiastic Witness out there who is cleaning at night and pioneering the days away, instead of going to the "evil" college and getting an education, traveling waiting to get married for a few years rather than immediately past the "bloom of youth." I'd like to talk to him, reach into his mind and show him a different path is available; but I know, like me, he'll have to figure it out him/herself. For me, sometimes it's hard not to feel like an underachiever when something you poured your heart into turns out to be a mirage.
When I first bought this computer 2 years ago, many Saturdays were spent reading and researching JW stuff on the internet. It has turned out to be a great friend. Knowing there are other ex-Witness survivors out there brings some real relief.
