Are you out there, Brother Elder?
Are you finding our little show entertaining?
In your bloodshot eyes do we appear pathetic or just disturbing?
Are we scary or merely confusing?
Either way . . . WHAT DO YOU CARE?
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Who ARE you to disapprove? Who are you but men who tear families apart with your demands for unearned Loyalty?
Do you feel powerful cornering the weak and troubled in your congregation, watching them squirm and tremble as you interrogate them?
How does it feel to hold them in the palm of your hand?
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Well, here is a HEAD'S UP for you. Pay attention!
This little place is not a Peep Show. It is a MIRROR.
You are looking at your FUTURE.
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Your sell-by date is fast approaching.
To be moral you have to make real choices.
You have no business here, so let me ask:
WHY ARE YOU HERE?
Let me make a guess . . .
It is because you already know your little life is a lie.
Everyday, while we work out our honest woes in the sunshine of personal freedom, you are walking in the shadows of a LIE.
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It is only a matter of time for you my friend, only a matter of time.
Those two compartments in your brain can't remain sealed off forever.
You'll give yourself away as sure as day follows night.
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Living a lie scrapes away beauty from your soul and leaves a hole nothing can fill but depression.
That is what makes Elders in the Kingdom Halls so dangerous.
You are picking at that tiny piece of unraveling thread. As you tug, it begins to come apart right before your eyes.
Scary, huh?
So, you get mean and nasty and tear the spirit out of the weak and the hurting.
You start picking fights like a bully with bothersome dissenters to puff up your glorious dream of TRUTH.
A tale told by idiots full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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While you sit there staring at all of us--we are taking a moment to stare right back at YOU!
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What kind of man are you? You can't speak your own mind out loud.
This is a free society and you choose to bite your tongue, stifling your intelligence.
THIS is the life you choose? WHAT ARE YOU?
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Before you go, here is something to think about.
First off, you are going to get older and older. As you age you'll see your precious "truth" change before your eyes again and again.
This year is just exactly like last year and the year before stretching on back to some awkward moment Jehovah was going
to do what the Watchtower printed in a magazine. (Spoiler alert: Jehovah never does!)
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For a hundred years men just like you thought they knew something special.
What came of it? Beautiful promises postponed.
Look around at the older folks who grow older still, growing feeble, useless to the Society now.
What do they have to show for all their toil?
A great big nothing.
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If you want to get well.....try doubting something.
Being unsure is breath of sanity.
Being confused is being human.
Not knowing all the answers puts you down here with real people and not on the cloud of ego and illusion.
Trying being wrong for just five minutes a day.
Try being real.
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Here is a Kleenex. Blow your nose with it, then stop and look at what's in your hand.
THAT'S YOU when reaching the end of usefulness to JW's. You will be hurting, depressed and lonely.
All used up, shivering in the cold you will be standing with the rest of them at that bus stop waiting on the bus to paradise
. . . the bus that never seems to come on time.
