The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.

Julia Orwell

My husband has started playing violent samurai video games again! He's grown a beard! He watched Lord of the Rings!

I've applied for a job at a Lutheran school! I've oftered to teach not only my curriculum area, but Christian Studies as well! I drew a picture of a dragon! I'm going to go back to university part time!

We now sometimes drink a bottle of wine each! We watched The Hobbit! We got Seinfeld DVDs! We sleep in every Saturday morning and have breakfast forever!

And not only are we doing such depraved, filthy, debauched activities like these that obviously come from the table of the demons, we are also enjoying personal pursuits! He's engaged with horticulture, and I'm focusing on my art, literature and bird breeding, because voila! We have a lot of time now. My general practition doctor was so happy to see me yesterday because my not seeing her for ages means I've been mentally very well! She was thrilled that I've left JWs and thinks I'm making excellent progress in my life!

Baaaaaaaaaaad baaaaaaaaaaaaad things happen when you leave 'Jehovah's Organisation"- the above list is proof of just how wicked you become and how your life ends up in the shite.

erbie

That's the trouble when you leave...

It all goes to pot!

Julia Orwell

Ha ha ha we have a life that JWs would envy. We are not well off, but we are happy and fill our lives with things and people we love.

snare&racket

Awesome to read Julia, the real you and your husband colourfully shining through the old black and white constraints!

You sound like you were secret geeks............. Perfect!

i love reading your updates, its like watching a life be brought back to life...... ;) good on you both!

Snare

Julia Orwell

Thanks S&R. I think we're rediscovering our true selves. It seems easier for him because he has far more pre-cult life and was in it for less time than me, but I'm tentatively forging ahead and am hell happier for it.

doofdaddy

"I think we're rediscovering our true selves."

Now there deserves an Amen!

frogonmytoe

EVIL JULIA!

I always watched LOTR, as did many of my former witless friends. However, those that shuddered at the LOTR films seemed more than happy to watch the Hobbit. I assume this is due to it being more child-friendly (as so clearly not demonic then...) When I mentioned this to my sister, whose daughter was reading The Hobbit before seeing the film, I was told she didn't want to have that discussion...?!

As for Seinfeld. That is debauched. And not funny... ;-)

Julia Orwell

What? The Hobbit movie is just like LOTR, though not as good. Talk about JWs splittin' hairs. I actually had the whole LOTR set when I was a JW but after a couple of years my 'conscience' got the better of me. I would watch Seinfeld on TV too, but its focus on sex got to my JW 'conscience' too. But I did, from the beginning of being a JW, give up dragons. Oh I had the most beautiful dragons and I'd draw them all day long. I adored dragons and mythical creatures. I wish I'd never given them up.

It's not until you leave the cult you realise how much of your true self you gave up for it. It's insidious, and then wham! a few years later you don't know who you are anymore.

Phizzy

"We are not well off, but we are happy and fill our lives with things and people we love. "

That describes Mrs Phizzy and me, we just love having the time and freedom to devote to whatever and whoever we want. JW world is no part of our world.

Good on yer Orwells !

WinstonSmith

There is so much win in your OP.

Maximum awesomeness!

The Orwells are so naughty! Filthy little apostates we are.

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