Now That I've Joined, I wish That I Hadn't (page 2)

bwoga

I do recall having that same feeling...."I wish I didn't know....now I'm doomed and I'll never make it" But you know....educate yourself on the WTS and their "True" history....not what's written in the "Proclaimers Book" and they lose a whole lotta credibility....once you realize what their all about, you'll realize they use scare tactics to control members....that's how they keep you in...how they keep you docile and subserviant....once you learn to think for yourself independently of the WT....you'll lose that feeling.....you're on a journey to freedom...don't let anyone rob you of your prize!

Mulan

Even the Proclaimers book will convict them, though. My son in law read it!! I'm sure they didn't expect many to actually sit down and READ it. But, he did. And then he read it again. Then he told our daughter "we will no longer allow these people to control our lives." And they walked away.

jurs

i can relate !!! i had an unbelieving mate and was always stessed about not doing eneough. i would have thoughts like, i wish i never knew the truth or i wish a witness never came to my door. funny, i never prayed and asked Jehovah if this was really the truth i assumed it was. jurs

TR

Remember those brothers that for some reason were just content to come to the meetings, and that was it? I remember thinking how un spiritual they were, but at the same time, I envied the hell out of them!

TR

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson*

Wolfy

The caption says it all...

I was a MS at 18 and was given more and more assignments..A close friend of mine gave me a leather bracelet to wear..He wore a couple and I thought it would be cool...First time on the platform with it ended with me getting a lecture(in the second school after the meeting) from an elder. The elder and his wife had moved into our cong about 6 months before and were former Bethelites..Says my bracelet was worldly and that I should not be wearing it..Tried to argue the point with him but it was useless...Didn't care..Kept wearing the bracelet...mostly to piss him off..(my Dad was an Elder at that time and he saw nothing wrong with it)..Some Elders are just so petty...

After much pressure I was baptized at the age of 16...I was getting baptized at the same assembly as the PO son.....Everything went fine but the week after the assembly the PO's wife was complaining that I was not completely dunked under the water...She had taped it and she said that my hair had not gone completely under...She was insisting that I get dunked over again...Man...I was royally pissed..The PO talked to my Dad. My Dad told him that it was ridiculous and that there was no need for me to get dunked again...The matter was finally dropped a couple of weeks later...No..I did not have to get dunked again..

Side point..The PO's sun left the "truth" 3 years later...Moved in with a "worldly" girl..The PO had been removed by that time though..

It's all about who is who and who you know..It also seems that you have to be really good at kissing ass in the org...Fed up with all the bull...Anyways...

Gotta go to work....

Wolfy

joelbear

I remember when I was at Bethel. We had a talk on wholesouled service and I didn't feel like I was doing enough so I signed up to auxiliary pioneer one month.

Joel

open_mind

Now That I've Joined, I wish That I Hadn't

me too

Vienna

Reading someone's post on always being sick reminded me: I used to HOPE I would get some problem and be so sick I didn't have to attend. That way, it would be a free ticket to not go to the meetings and people wouldn't judge me for not showing up. I remember daydreaming I had a major illness, they had to make an annoucement about the need to send meals or something and I would daydream the congregation feeling sorry for me and say "I know why she's not here--poor thing." How pathetic is that for me to wish that??? I felt like a rat that needs to chew on its own leg to get out of a trap--no matter the physical pain, I want out! I got so jealous of the men and women who had real problems and when they finally showed up to a meeting everyone would rush to them and congradulation them on coming. But if I missed ONE meeting for a headache or sore back (not good enough reasons, remember) , I would get the critical eye and up turned nose. Crazy.

jurs

hi vienna,
thanks for the laugh. i use to wish i was sick too. sometimes before a meeting if my kids slightly complained of their stomache hurting ect. i would jump on the chance not to go...jurs

LDH

Oh Vienna, that was awesome. Welcome.

Hi Wolfy. I grew up in Upstate NY and went to Canada quite a bit. A brother in our cong. also got hassled about wearing a leather bracelet, ha ha ha. Do you remember in the late 80's when bolo ties were in? I wore one as a part of a 'western outfit' and got busted out 'for wearing the garb of the opposite sex.'

Joel Joel Joel. Yours was the funniest of all. Already serving in Bethel like a slave, you decided to Aux Pio one month?!?!? Man oh man that is some kind of funny.

Lisa

Now That I've Joined, I wish That I Hadn't

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