This was my response to LovesDubs, I thought it deserved a posting...
LovesDubs says: 57 years??? Oh I know....thats because you also associated with them in your PREVIOUS life for 20 years too :)
So you doubt my time line! Stay with me now? My parents learned the truth when I was only six months old 1945. You count them, unless you don't count the years as association that I was only four, five, and six, years old. And the discussions to try to convert my school mates while I was in what they now call middle school? Not babtized, but working, involved, associated?????
Four - Mom walked in service everyday, had many bible studies.....I remember the hot afternoons. Sitting still for at least an hour and then walk, walk, walk, again.
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Five - Talks in TMS, brothers had to put a small stand under my feet so that my face could be seen by the dubs. Much of my life was dedicated to being involved, my Dad was for the most part the only elder, brother, or qualified to serve male in the congregation so we would go and pick up most of the congregation and then have the study and then take most of them home, because many didn't have cars.
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Six - Service and after school meetings etc. - Circuit assemblies into the night and district assemblies in the hot sun that lasted until 9:00 PM.
I understand that you have issues and I also have them.
The fact that we neither of us want to indentify ourselves speaks volumes for the way we feel. The fear of being an outcast etc.
LoveDubs says: Im also quite sure that the people who have LEFT are fantastic individuals...Ive never met such wonderful people, and so diversified. Im wonderful YOU are wonderful...obviously being a JW isnt what MAKES us wonderful dahling!
I don't think anyone will argue that there are good people everywhere?
Lovedubs says: Im sure amongst Hitlers minions there were people equally stuck who hated to do what they were doing but knew if they objected what would happen to them.
Your Hitler comparison is not valid, DUBS are not killing anyone.....
If you need more, I have many experiences .... never doubt the breeze man.....!!! Truth is what I have stood for all my life.....
BREEZE