I am one as have been in the truth from my childhood, grown upp on it, and still inn.
One thing who was very good was that as JW we go on diffrent assambleys, you meet a lot of peopel,where can you bee in charge over 100 persons when you are only 18, I was, inn som of this frree works on assamblies. marvelus expiriens.As a young man I also have speces to biig crowds , also an god thing fore you confidence,
I also travel a lot to US 69, 73, meet some wonnderful peopel, never foregret the black brother as give us someplace to sleep when it shoved upp we have no place to go.
I also meet my wife in the truth, and as a good jw SHE IS a blessing fore the man who get her, follow evry singel addvis from GB very careful, I must say, JW husbands must be some of the most happy in the word, beaucause ther wifs are traind to never go against ther husbands.
When I grow upp I never saw this back side od this religionas we see here, fore me it was radher good, because I was not so well treated in th so called word, in fackt I was very bad treated, and harassment was a evry day fight fore mee.
Then as young you have a feeling you was littel more important than other peopel, you was unusal, and even in schol i noticed that some was impresed that you havew the courage to bee diffrent.
I never lived this dobbel life i read about here, but I was never pionjering , always middel man, doing my 10-15 hours, in the sevrvice you also meet o lot of diffrent peopel thisd is also one wery good thing,it is very develloping fore your personality I think to do this, I think most JW as grow upp in the religion have the same expiriens.
But I was son off the PO so perhaps I was littel blessed from that.
What was bad, well from the begining nothing was bad, when you was young , perhaps it was a good protection fore me to be carefull widh girls, as a long tal sweed I and my freind was radher populare among sisters when we traveld to other countries, like US, we never take addvantige of that, perhaps now I regret this a bitt, hmmmmm.
So my life was blessed i some way, as JW, I am now well aware of the bad sides as I never saw before, now when I read here i see the backyards of our religion and it is not beautifull, so I do what I can to change it, have peopel in the cong to understand , and try to talk widh peopel even high upp as I now, about this abuse things, fore exampel, I have some sucsess in this, what I understand is that that almost evryone are aware of that here we are trapped i a difficult situaition, beaucause of GB positon and how they deal widh this .
I dont think you peopel here are aware of the bigg impackt this hade on comen JWs, when you talk in privat about this, almost evryone say this is a dissaster fore us and must change, so we hope if not, it can be our Watrelow.
