With This One Thought, You Become An XJW (page 2)

moman

My thought was, "Anything is better than this!"

Lost Diamond

Ballistic....you are so right!

I like who I am now. Being a JW made me a stronger and more compasionate person......now I don't judge people like I used to when I was a JW. I have more sense of what freedom feels like.

Bernadine

rocketman

Now C'mon Met....don't you realize that religion has to be boring and that we must suffer through endless meetings in order to know that we have the "truth"?

rocketman

Honestly, I thought that, since I disliked it so much, it must be right somehow. Like there had to be some "suffering" involved.

heathen

Actually my last thought was " Get the hell outa here " as I threw the bible study conductor out of my house .

ESTEE

Yo heathen!! I'm prouda your assertiveness!!! Well done!!!

ESTEE

metatron

I think a lot of Witnesses feel the same way - it's awful so it must be good for

you.

(whack! slaps forehead again!)

How did we fall into such a horrid mode of thinking? That righteousness and goodness

aren't enjoyable or that everything MUST be a trial ? Sheesh!

My masochist days are over, period.

metatron

patio34

Well, Metatron--this is certainly a huge coincidence.

I logged on with the intent to start a thread on my experience at the UU (Unitarian) church last night, scanned the threads, opened yours, and voila!

Well, here's mine: I went to a Friday night movie viewing (that's right--a MOVIE). A group of us watched Grand Canyon, along with popcorn, candy, etc. provided by the church.

Then, after the movie we sat around and discussed it. And it hit me: vive la differance! Not a programmed robotic Q&A Bible discussion, but a free discussion about a movie!

That was my head-smack moment!

One older lady stated that she didn't like to hear the words shit and fuck in the movies. I teased her by covering my ears and saying, "Oh, but you said both!" We all had a good laugh.

Another refreshing aspect of the local UUs is that they have a sangha group that meets at a house every week for Buddhist meditation. It feels as if I've left a totalitarian country for a free one!

Thanks for starting this thread, Met.

Pat

My 'one thought' or perhaps epithany was: How can a God of love destroy a 'good' person, who's doing all he/she knows how to do, in attempts to pleas Him? I've met 'good' church-going people whom I would 'save' from destruction (not necessarily JW's!) and I'm imperfect. Wouldn't a perfect being like Jehovah save some/many who were sincere but just not His 'witnesses'?

shamus

Well said, what-now? How dare anyone tell someone that they are going to die at armageddon. What the hell happened to that scripture that said do not judge one-another? Oh, but everyone else is a Pharisee, they'll say... The Jduds are the Pharisees with stupid man-made rules and blind faith....

Shamus.

With This One Thought, You Become An XJW

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