by logansrun 53 Replies latest jw friends
I'd put in a better effort if...
1- Did away with disfellowshipping.
2- Cut meetings to twice per week, 1-hour each.
3- Celebrated birthdays and all holidays.
4- Assemblies only once a year, 1 day only (10 a.m.-12 noon; 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.)
5- Stop it with the silly statement that they're the 'truth'.
Wait it a minute. That'll never happen! I better find another religion! No, I won't do that either. (HA!!!)
I guess, when it comes to religion, I'll continue to be in no-man's land.
DY
I haven't set foot in Kingdom Hall since 1966. I will never go back. Never is too soon!
Been thinking but still haven't some up with any reasons. check back with me in about 100 years or so.
cybs
This reminds me of a old joke.
If you are walking down a street and you see someone smiling it has to be two reasons:
1. There are mentally ill
2. They are Jehovahs Witnesses.
wow! i'm actually posting on this site. won't i be struck down!?!?! ok, back to why i'm posting... i've had to do a lot of recovery from being raised as a jw. from sex abuse by my brother (who is now wonderfully an elder and gets stinking drunk often and has beaten his wife more than once!) to physical abuse from my elder-father (who is dead now). i was disfellowshipped, twice. during my second stint out, i sought major counseling and realized that all the reasons for why i was disfellowshipped were directly due to the child abuse i suffered at the hands of witnesses. thus, i felt i was taking charge of my life by acting in whatever way i needed to be reinstated. the moment i was reinstated, i never went back. it was my way of saying "i decide who i want to talk to and who i don't, not you." since then, i've also come to the realization that my family is not worth living a double life for. i would have to live a double life for them to be able to accept me (they're ALL reg. pioneers), and i would not be true to myself by doing that. i am what i am, and if they can't accept that and choose to judge me, that's their loss. i am a wonderful, very talented woman. but all they see when they look at me is a condemned person who needs 'saving'. my niece, who i've seen 4 times in her life, ran away from home to live with and 'take care of' a boy from the kh who fell from the truth. my mom had the audacity to call me to tell me it's my fault. i kept my cool (thank god for recovery!) and asked why she thought that. seems when i introduced my new husband to the family and she saw how happy we were, she thought she could have the same thing. thus, it's my fault. i told my mom i wasn't going to take that on. deep down, though, i still remember how jw's think. it's not my righteous sister's fault, the one who raised her, but rather my fault because i am an unbeliever. and why does it have to be anyone's fault? why can't it be that my niece decided to think for herself instead of being a blind follower? i still have a lot of grieving and coming to terms with just how insidious my upbringing was, but i am a lot happier today than i ever was when i was trying to fit into all the rules or what i could/couldn't do/say/think/look like/believe, etc. i happen to live right down the street from a kh, and there is a lot of hurt and anger that i feel when i look at the super righteous people in their "bif" and "muffy" uniforms. knowing how exalted they put themselves (because i did the same thing when i was a reg. pioneer) above the poor unfortunate souls who are not witnesses really makes me sick. eventually, my conscience couldn't take the preaching work, which supports judging others because they're doing their own thing and are not interested in following what jw's put out as the 'only way'. i felt like a pied piper and it didn't feel good. sorry for the looooong post. seems i have a lot to get out. thanks for listening.
Bummabar,
I would have to spend hours and hours of my valuable time sitting in meetings to get reinstated.
Not only that, you would have to not be caught smoking, going into another church, not going into a christian bookstore, or hanging out with "worldly" people, and a host of other things. You would have to "live" like a witness or you'd be either reprimanded or booted out. There is no faking going back unless you live like a dub already.
Gumby
God!
To these horrible stories ever end? I thought my story was bad, but it seems as if the more time I spend in here the worst the stories get. I can see why the society does not want thier robots to read this or similiar sights!
To these horrible stories ever end?
Homey.....you and I, and everybody else....doesn't have a clue what this group has done and is doing on the scale that it does. If we did.........we would become 'rambo like'.
Gumby
: 2) I go insane.You already are if you're even THINKING about going back!
Farkel
woooahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.....crazily runs around in circles, 
nooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Farkel and I posted same TTHHHHHHIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!
say it isn't sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
I already thought I was Rambo like Gumby, but since being in here I can recall at least 2 or three horrible stories like the one on this thread, and my story, which is indeed a very sad one, doesn't even compare to the sadness this cult has incurred on folks.
