would you go back if...
No. Not this side of Armageddon!
would you go back if...
by what_Truth? 37 Replies latest jw experiences
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Flash
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lv4fer
NO WAY. I am free from the Cult I was in. Now why in anyones right mind would you go back?
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hillbilly
I have considered this with great care.
* $7.3 million ---cash
*I get to be in charge of everthing
~Hill (is $7.3million enough? class)
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Davin
This is pretty much my first time on here, and I've never really had the chance to meet anyone who used to be a witness or anything like that so this is kinda different for me, but here goes.
No.
My grandparents were not witnesses (much less ANYONE else in my family - just me, my mom, and my brother) and the witnesses always were encouraging me to spend less time with them if they weren't interested in coming to meetings. They felt that way about pretty much everybody who didn't share their faith - and the one thing I learned from being a witness is you can't be free to truly love people in this world if you spend most of your life drawing lines and walls between people who don't share your exact beliefs. There pretty much is no little thing that could be changed to make that any better because the heart of the faith is rooted in "We're right and unforunately for everybody else, you're all wrong." That doesn't work for me in any faith, because if there is a benevolent God, I'm assuming he wouldn't be judging people based on the culturally different ways they try to reach out for him, but hopefully by the ways they tried to make the world a little bit better by being good to everybody regardless of what they look like or what they believe.
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seeitallclearlynow
the one thing I learned from being a witness is you can't be free to truly love people in this world if you spend most of your life drawing lines and walls between people who don't share your exact beliefs.
Excellent point, Davin, and a big welcome to the forum!
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starfish422
ITA with Quotes. Positive atheism is the only route for me. :)
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Country_Woman
I will never go back to an organised religion.
For the rest your few major changes are in my opinion a complete turnover. with these kind of changes it ain't a cult anymore.
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lawrence
"Field Service is mandatory!" Sure send us out, what the hell are we going to say at this point. "Hey householder, do you got an extra beer? That's a cool cross you have on your neck; and your neighbor was looking mighty fine."
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freedom96
There is nothing that the WTS teaches that I find appealing. I would not join any sect of theirs.
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Incense_and_Peppermints
when donkeys fly...