Last week we had a thread asking "Did you ever feel like going back (to the borg)?"
In times of doubt, there's always a tendency to wonder whether you've done the "right thing". In such times, the past can be looked upon with "rose-coloured glasses", remembering only the good times. The bad things that caused us to question the WTS teachings are pushed to one side, as it were. In other words, we exercise a selective memory.
How does this occur? After the initial euphoria associated with a change, cold facts of reality have to be faced. Where are we headed? What shall we do now? and so on.
We are not alone in this. Growing disenchantment with fledgling democracies has caused a resurgence of communist support in some parts of the former Soviet bloc. If those now clamouring for change, had to have the past decade all over again, would they still have overthrown their communist masters? But they don't seem to think of that, but are seduced by their selective memories to believe that they were better off under communism.
This is nothing new. Almost 3,500 years ago, the nation of Israel were, for the first time in 400 years, a free nation. They had witnessed the obliteration of their oppressors (the Egyptians) in the Red Sea, and were being fed miraculously. What was their early response? "We were better off in Egypt as slaves"! And for what? Because the food diet was "better"!!! Instead of manna they thought of cucumbers!! Forgotten was the harshness and oppression of living as slaves. Instead, they (selective memory) thought of cucumbers! Well, it got them nowhere!
So what does this mean for us, who've been able to see the truth about "The Troof"?
It means to never forget what we have learned, often through bitter experience, and have started out in freedom. Freedom is something to be guarded as something precious. We should never be like those who've cast off bondage, only to later find ways of returning to the very thing we've left!
Cheers, Ozzie