JWD half-way house... (page 3)

Carmel

Craige, how one sees JWD has much to do with their own circumstances. Personally, being "out" for forty years before discovering H20 and JWD, I had no need of a "halfway house" yet I enjoy cussing and discussing with you and others. I could live without it in an instant, but it has brought a dimension to my life that I appreciate but to which I am not addicted. Friends are not just those of similiar class, race or religion, they are humans of chance circumstance that bring a new and enjoyable facet that is unique with each person. You have enriched my life as well as other X's, but I would be making new friends with or without such happenstance.

So my friend, if it seems like another "religion" to you or a halfway house to "normalcy" so be it. I suspect it is more projection on your part though, than reality..

cheers, carmel

TMS

Carmel expressed it well

"So my friend, if it seems like another "religion" to you or a halfway house to "normalcy" so be it. I suspect it is more projection on your part though, than reality.."

I've been careful not to make anti-JW my religion.

JW was my life for 55 years.

I cannot or do not erase that.

This forum has been a release. . . .a reality check. . . a verification

I owe Simon and those of his ilk, as they say, "bigtime"

TMS

got my forty homey?

Maybe there is a time when we reach a point that we fulfilled a certain inner requirement to stop speaking about our bad experiences/hypocrosies as witness. Me myself I dont think that time will ever come because I feel I lost so much because of this organization.

TMS

"Me myself I dont think that time will ever come because I feel I lost so much because of this organization."

gotmyforty

I hope against hope that will not be the case and suspect it will not.

TMS

onacruse

Thank you all for your posts.

I've been thinking about this "issue" for several weeks, and, if I may focus on what Carmel said:

I suspect it is more projection on your part though, than reality..

Perhaps so, my friend, perhaps so. I took my religion very seriously. I took my previous marriages very seriously. I take my marriage to Kate very seriously. I take my work very seriously.

And I've been "accused" of taking this db too seriously; maybe it's just a dimension of my life, interacting with other real people in the electronic medium, for which I have yet to find a balance?

As a part of the balancing: Kate and I are gonna head over your way at our earliest opportunity, and enjoy the sweet sea air, and your company.

Craig

onacruse

40 and TMS, I refuse, absolutely refuse, to let that religion, the first half of my life, dictate what I choose to be for the next decades of my life.

I'm in the process of excising it, like an ugly distorted elaphantitus tumor on my forehead.

It's our choice.

Craig

gumby

Do you see JWD as a half-way house?
My opinion: if it's not, then we've done nothing other than join another religion (the "anti-WTS-ism" church just around the corner, praise God).
If it is a half-way house, then there comes a time when we must move on...
or are there other good and sufficient reasons to 'stick with it'?

I think you think too much and make yourself silly sometimes.

Gumby

got my forty homey?

I dont let it consciencely control me, but I'm sure that sub-consciencely it does.

onacruse

Gumby:

I think you think too much and make yourself silly sometimes.

Maybe.

otoh, this is, after all, just a db?

Or so I've been told.

Craig

Valis

*LOL* onanism...consult your phone bill!...*LOL* BTW, tell Katie to call me sometime..

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

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