I think I may be becoming an X-X-JW (page 3)

SnakesInTheTower

Good for you Joe,

I check in periodically, post rarely.

Probably the only reason I still do is because my now 81 year old mom is still a JW, though I think her appetite for it has waned. She uses "old age" as a reason to stop going to conventions and less in person meeting attendance.

Yet, she still cuts her own yard with a gas push mower, and it's not a tiny yard. She helps older ones in her congregation who are 20 years younger and physically less able. So, just an excuse, or JW is just a social connection since she is now widowed and alone in rural Alabama?

Anyway, I miss talking to some of you, though we may chat on FB, and I just haven't connected your IRL name with your JWD screen name. LOL

I've been out since Summer 2007, and PIMO since end of 2006, so I don't personally care what the Gibbering Buddy thinks or does, except as it affects my mom. Once she is gone, maybe I move on too. I have nothing new JW related to add as I did as a questioning elder back then.

Good luck to you Joe

Snakes (of the "Increasingly Irrelevant Class"

Simon

Happy onward journey ... becoming an ex-ex-JW should be everyone's goal.

You once belonged to a club, but don't anymore. Don't make it your life and entire community.

That said, it's nice to pause to give a hand to the people behind you on the climb, like those before helped you.

thom

Oh, ic. I misunderstood becoming an ex-ex-JW to mean returning :)

Moving on from the ex-JW community is that suits you is a good thing. Letting having been a JW in the past become just that, something from your past, is great. No reason you can't stop by now and then, but it's no longer something you need to expend brain power on each day.

I left maybe 19 years ago, and have spent the last quite a few years now never even really thinking about it (JWs). When I do, it's just, "Oh yeah, I was once a JW". Sometime I taunt my wife (in fun) who is also an ex-JW, to "hurry and get ready, it's meeting night." I get a nice mean face from it :)

littlerockguy

Hey thom!

Good to see you again. It's been forever :)

LRG

thom

Hey littlerockguy! Nice to see you're still "kickin'" :)

Balaamsass2

Third Gen and I are seniors now. We would love to be ex-ex JWs, but not a day goes by without a reminder of the damage Watchtower did long term to our parents, our extended family, our kids, and us personally. Emotionally, educationally, and financially.

Every missed funeral, missed family reunion, grocery store shunning, and Saturday knock on the door is an unwelcome reminder we were in a cult for 65 + years. It is not an everyday reminder, but it comes up more frequently than we wish.

We hope we can be object lessons to young JWs so they don't repeat our gullible example.

Rattigan350

There was a while where I was antijw, but then there is this person that I work with who was dating a guy for a couple of years, intimate non-marital relationship. Then she breaks up with him and in turn then there is hatred and retaliation and he files lawsuits against her in retaliation.

It's like every case on Judge Judy. The bottom line is what is said in 2 Tim 3:3. Not open to any agreement. Parents suing children and vice versa. Brother against sister. Boyfriend and girlfriend live together, make loans and breakup. People getting drunk and causing property damage.

People of the world don't have standards and then they make messes of their lives and this unwillingness to agree or find common ground can lead to conflict and a breakdown of relationship. I've come to see that is now how it is among Jehovah's Witnesses. There are standards and people are to seek peace and pursuit it. Contrary to what balaamsass said, it is not the Watchtower that did damage. It is trying to prevent damage. It is the world that does the damage.

Dave500

It took a couple of years for me to lose interest in the org. It is no more interesting to me now then any other false religion. But since my interest turned to Bible truths instead, i still come back to theses sites to share.

If you are still interested in the Bible, you may find these articles interesting: tinyurldotcom/bibramz

:^)

I think I may be becoming an X-X-JW

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