I received the bootprint of Jehovah on my ass 35 years ago.
I've missed a lot of meetings since that time. Well, I can't say I've emotionally "missed" them!
I didn't attend.
While writing my book I had cause to reflect on what my life might have been had I NOT walked out of a Kingdom Hall for the LAST time in 1978.
What if I had gone on attending meetings?
How would my life be different?
First off, I calculated (roughly) I missed 3 meetings a week. Actually more than that, but let's be conservative.
5,460 meetings I have missed.
Amazing number when you get right down to it.
You don't just count how much time that is in terms of walking in, shaking hands, blah-blahing and exiting afterward.
There is preparation time, travel time, study time, door-to-door witnessing time and all that adds up.
I'm going to arbitrarily assign two hours to each meeting just as a back-of-the-envelope starting point.
Multipy that 5,460 times 2 = 10,920 hours.
That's a lot of hours I got to keep for my own life and not squander on cult programming.
Then, my mind turns to the 7 million Jehovah's Witnesses who did NOT miss the meetings.
All those warm buttocks in folding chairs!
All the nonsense being repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
WELL, DO YOU GET THE POINT?
How can we wonder about how hard-headed, deluded, misinformed and irrational the rank and file has become? They HAVE attended all those meetings!
Their brains have turned to mush.
They've been imprinted, tattooed, chained and stuffed with pure shit as a diet.
ROUTINE after routine after routine life in a never-ending monotony of same old same old RULES THEIR THINKING.
These are truly the Walking Dead.
They cannot think.
They can no longer reason.
Logic is impossible.
Perspective has vanished.
They are LOYAL to the Governing Body and not to themselves or their own family.
They are programmed robots.
AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME.
It could have been you, too!
Don't let a day go by you don't pause and think about that!
My God!
How did I escape?
I'm so F-ing LUCKY I can't believe it!
I'm so happy!