by Terry 5 Replies latest jw friends
Make your best case.
You are miraculously invited to give a half hour speech to the local Kingdom Hall. (I know--fat chance!)
The title of your topic is this: WHY THE WAY I LIVE MY LIFE IS BETTER THAN YOU JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
You have to cover these areas: Is your life more ethical now? More moral?
Are your habits cleaner or worse? Compare how you live, how you use language, the friends you make now
with how you lived as an active JW.
READ . . . SET . . . BEGIN!
Because I can think for myself and question what I am told. My life is not micromanaged to the most minimal and precise details, and even if I did choose to live my life that way, I would decide how to micromanage it and not let some old men in New York do it for me.
I look at things with an open mind, rather than a closed one where the answer has already been decided for me.
I can enjoy life and all that is contained within it and take whatever path I so desire because I do not have the fear that "Armageddon is just around the corner" and "the time remaining left is short".
I can love and associate with all people, regardless of what they believe. I am not forced into a small circle of people I must like out of duty, but rather, I can choose whoever I want to be with.
There, I don't even need half an hour.
I TOTALLY agree with LP97's comments. That pretty well sums it up.
Congratulations on finding the way of life that suits you!
Stay happy!
GC
I never felt that I was a whole person as a Witness. In fact, I often was dragged to meetings against my will. I had doubts. Huge doubts. The further I went in school, the more I had doubts. The world was full of decent people. Witnesses were automatons, parroting the GB with no Bible knowledge. My life is not perfect now. Doubts remain. I learned that doubts are essential. Education gave m exposure to art and music. The Force/God nourished me. No one understood me as a Witness. People get me now. My vocational goals were limited as a Witness. Knowledge was anathema to them. It was a hard transition but I am now a professional. Witnesses teach and practice subjugation of women. I am a feminist and worked on US Supreme Court cases. Attraction to the other sex was a sin as a Witness. Once I left, I met many knights in shining armor. I no longer must dumb down. My core crowd is the Ivy League and comps. Makeup and fashion met I was a whore to the Witnesses. Now I can purchase makeup and fashion with glee. I never knew peace as a Witness. Many things bring me peace.
For some reason,I could read many grades above my grade level. I noticed weird things in the WT and the Bible. When I left the Witnesses, I studied the Bible and discussed it with many people from different backgrounds. My faith increased but I know the Bible is a human construct. Oh, I used to be terrorized by a fear of demons. Now I can laugh about them as C.S. Lewis suggested. Now I love C.S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, and the rest. When I most needed help as a teenager, I had to turn to a fashion magazine. They helped me. The editors said that to beat children was wrong. Absolutely. No discussion. The overseer would tell me how evil I was for listening to the Beatles. Now I listen to them live. I cry now when I see art masterpieces. The WT illustrations remind me of Stalinist art.
I dont see it that way Terry. I dont think the way i live my life is better than Jehovers Witnesses. You see i have my life and they have there life. I think a sincere Jehovers Witness who lives his life not dominated by anger or greed and with genuine concern mankind is living a good life. Ok he may be sincerly wrong and he may not realise he has compromised his own ethical and moral standards as his indoctrination has effected his " moral compass". But i having woken up to the G.B and waking up too the propoganda i am fed by marketing, advertising, politicians ect and i think ....maybe i aint much different.
