When You Learned TTATT, the truth about the truth(tm) How Did It Make You Feel? (page 2)

Dizzy and confused at first. Then mad only for a short while. Then sad for the years wasted and for friends and family who I knew would not understand. Then determined to get out and get away. Then light and free.

Satanus

Gutted. Then, relief and euphoria. Anger set in later and lasted for quite a few yrs.

S

Mum

Happy and freeeee! I figured it out at a JC. They were such a**holes that I didn't want anything to do with a god who would choose them.

I had my family back, didn't have to worry about my non-JW family surviving Armageddon, could go back to school and do whatever I liked! I was worried that my daughter might grow up and want to be a JW, but that didn't happen either (the JW part, not the growing up part ). I am so lucky!

I went to an ex-JW friend's place of employment, and we rejoiced together. She said, "They're lost and 'way downstream." That says it.

jw07

Pissed.

Vidiot

So many of these read like variations on the "five stages of grief".

For my part, mostly anger, not for anything done to me personally, but to others. I asked myself, "why the hell has the pedo problem not been properly solved, yet?"

A possible answer came to me shortly after; "an authority figure(s) who stonewalls the proper solution to a given problem is often personally involved in said problem".

My anger passed fairly quickly; believe it or not, my otherwise devout JW parents instilled in me certain attitudes that actually helped accept TTATT and subsequently fade realtively easily.

cobaltcupcake

Confused. Disillusioned. Lost.

QC

embarrassed

searched a fix

found a fix

very happy

frankiespeakin

Anger and happiness. Angry that I've been duped and happiness that I no longer had to go to meetings and listen to bullshit.

Ucantnome

guilt

When You Learned TTATT, the truth about the truth(tm) How Did It Make You Feel?

gma-tired2

Bob_NC