actually you will be just fine, when we used to host little informal --former/current jw --brainstormers at our house this issue always came up,
where do i go, what do i do, when will i feel safe, cold turkey or drift-
well i tell folks for once in your life you have the opportunity to do what is BEST FOR YOU
recall how in wt they always tried to make everyone feel---, if sister single parent with 9 kids , one arm, no job no car and no teeth can pioneer then what is your excuse sister jone married with no kids , good job, etc-
we were always being sold that one size fits all, if leroy can do it then Pookey can do it-
welll now you are actually seeing how folks live in the real world, each person makes decisions on what is best for them, not what someone else tells you to do
for some Standing up at the front of the Hall, Mooning and Farting at the congo after the elder reads their DA letter is the way they leave
for others merely drifting away from the org and not dealing with anyone until they are ready is their way-
for us we drifted for the purpose of getting our mind cleaned, building a new cliente of friends and now we are at the point where we really don't care what they do, we enjoy the holidays with neighbors and new friends, we support out local politcal party, i own a home now and taxes are important to me now-
so each person in due to must decided DON'T RUSH IT, when the time is right you will know
as i tell folks all the time, THE SAME WAY YOU BECAME A JW IS THE SAME WAY FOR MANY IS THE WAY YOU WILL LEAVE
IT was a slow process of years of indoctrination into thier dogma and for many of us it takes years of UN-INDOCTRINATION TO LEAVE
WE STARTED OUR journey in 1995 with the generation change, and it was no until april of 1998 did i turn in my flockbook , my keys to the file I was the SEC, my keys to the hall and ask them to reassign someone to do my bookstudy, and that tuesday after the service meeting was the last night my wife or i have stepped across the sill of a Hall-
so take your time, just continue to READ READ READ
4 QUOTES TO KEEP IN MIND AND EACH TIME I READ THEM THEY ARE AS IMPORTANT TODAY AS THEY WERE THE FIRST TIME POSTER LEFT THEM ON H2O TO READ
1. "Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful."
-Roman philosopher Seneca-
2 The three essential human freedoms:
The first is freedom of speech and expression.
The second is freedom of conscience.
The third is freedom from fear.
The Freedom to Think means:
"I'd rather have Questions that I can't Answer ----Than Questions, I can't Ask.
(or Answers that I can't Question)."
"..... anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he had been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself." The Prince. Niccolo Machiavelli.
