I’ve often said that I believe that I am a good friend to have around in times of trouble. Tell me your problem once and I’ll do my best to help. Tell me it again and I start to wonder why you haven’t fixed it yet.
As a “Silver-ish Surfer” in my mid 50’s I reckon that I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs, so much of the stuff that exiting JW’s have to cope with is very familiar to me. Often times I am quite taken aback at some of the remarkable displays of courage that we see on this board, particularly from some of the feisty ladies who will not tolerate being bullied by what I call “Oppressive People”. They recognise that they have a problem, they talk about it briefly and then they fix it! If they can’t fix it, they learn to deal with it as best they can, but it doesn’t stop them from living as full a life as possible.
What really gets my goat however, is that we seem to be attracting a host of namby-pamby wingers on board who don’t seem at all interested in learning how to cope with their problems, or for that matter, even comprehend what a real problem actually is. Today, I have read posts by someone who hates the nicknames used for Italians, someone else doesn’t like being called “Coloured”, we even get presented with episodes of How My JW Mom Treated Me Today.
I mean, if the biggest problem that you have is not liking a nickname, or you want to be a Person of Colour as opposed to a Coloured Person or that your JW mum is being impossible – they all are for Christ’s sake! –then it strikes me that your time would be better spent in assisting persons who have real problems instead of writing self-pitying drivel for me to read!
So come on all you Permanent Victims, go and volunteer to help where help is really needed and lets keep this a board fit for hero’s.
Englishman.
..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
