Planting Seeds--Plants Do Not Grow Overnight

by blondie 18 Replies latest jw friends

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  blondie

  I see some post here that want family and friends to see TTATT immediately.

  I'm a gardener, a serious one. We make sure we put in an area that gets sun, check the soil each year, put in compost and other amendments, make sure we plant seeds compatible with the ones next to them, plant far enough apart, proper amount of water. Everything can be perfect but when I go out the day after planting...nothing has broken through yet. It takes time folks and some take longer than others to grow and bear fruit. Plant too many seeds near each other, they crowd each other out. Water too much the seed can die. If the soil isn't conditioned or ready, seeds die.

  From my first real light in 1993 to 2001 when I went to my last meeting was 8 years. Look back at how long it took you to wake up and be strong and brave enough to leave. You may think you left in one day, but I guarantee it was only the last straw that broke the camel's back.

  Be patient.

  What is that old kernel...Rome was not built in a day.
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  ILoveTTATT

  Thank you Blondie!!

  I think you refer to me...

  It DOES take time... and courage, and much wisdom, to help others see TTATT...

  My mother, for example, has only now EVER read JUST the Bible, nothing else... that, I think, is the start of the real TTATT planting...
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  wearewatchingyouman

  Great advice Blondie.
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  blondie

  TATT, I saw the real truth when I started reading the Bible not just a few verses in the publications. Reading things in context without the WTS noise in the background helped me to see myself, and raised many questions.

  But my heart had to be at the right point, with one doubt/question, looking for the answers in the bible and then being brave enough to leave. I realized that any "love" my family had for me was conditional and toxic and staying was more dangerous than leaving.

  You are not the only one to have posted about this; some think there is one topic or one question that wakes people up. I find it really takes several things over time.

  I have said on this board many times that what gets jws into the organization is the CARROT:

  Everlasting life on a paradise earth in perfect health surrounded by one's resurrected loved ones.

  And that is the same thing that keeps them in despite the realities they see. (Don't confuse me with the facts)

  
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  3rdgen

  So true Bondie, I am a gardener as well. Where I live TIMING is crucial because our summers are very hot (over 100F) yet winter brings freezing temps. Picking the right time and place to plant means success or utter failure. I am finding it very hard to restrain myself from spewing TMI all at once to jws when I am already in a bad mood. Thank you for the reminder.
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  whathappened

  I agree. It did take a long series of crazy sh#* to happen to gently wake me up. Once I made the decision to leave it did seem like it happened overnight. There was a straw that broke the camels back and that was learning the info about the history of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
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  smiddy

  I wholeheartedly agree blondie , its not one thing that wakes you up its a combination of many things that sometimes spans many years, even decades.

  I just pray to the non god I dont beleive in, that in all my 33 years of preaching the watchtower drivel , no seed took root .

  And if any by chance did , I would say to you get out while you still can , its not too late to live your own life .

  smiddy
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  factfinder

  thank you Blondie. It was a lot of things over a long time that finally got me to give up the meetings, and then overcome my fear to look into sites such as jwn, freeminds etc and see the tatt.

  It did take many years after all.
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  AnnOMaly

  Good thread, Blondie and absolutely spot on!

  With me also, lots of 'little' things over my whole life as a born-in got me to the stage where I was willing to look objectively at the JW religion, and that was piece-by-piece over years. From that time to the time I was finally able to make the break - 10 years.
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  carla

  Not only did you have to be brave enough to leave but one also has to be brave enough to read the Bible for themselves. Many jw's won't even do that and not just out of laziness but rather because they are afraid they will find something wrong.