I do. Once you realize how much bondage you were under....it's easy to feel good not having the weights of man made rules. It's very liberating for me to tell people that I no longer associate with the JW religion----Very liberating!!!
Do You Now Feel Liberated Since Leaving The "Truth"?
by minimus 22 Replies latest jw friends
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JustTickledPink
not only do I feel liberated, I feel HAPPY!
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Gill
ALL my hang ups are gone!
How liberating is that?!
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candidlynuts
i feel more liberated being divorced. i do feel my tuesdays, thursdays and sundays have been liberated.. freed... opened up for endless possibilties..(cept i sit at home and watch tv and post here lol)
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minimus
Gill says, "All my hangups are gone!".......It's a miracle!
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Davin
Halfway I guess.
My brother had problems growing up so in some ways our family was on the outside looking in with our congregation. They like me, but they were afraid to let kids be near my autistic brother - maybe they'd catch it or something. I always hung out with "worldly" kids in the neighborhood, too and got a long well in school but was never completely one of them because I was a member of a "weird religion"...so I don't know. It was extremely liberating to be able to be who I wanted to be without having to walk down the middle line all of the time.
The only problem is that by the time I quit in high school I had missed out on a lot of the growing pains that a lot of kids go through earlier, and I was kinda stranded in the middle of everything. I knew I liked everybody, but I didn't know who I could really trust or put any sort of stock in, and I had a lot of friends but shut out a lot of relationships because underneathe it all I didn't know how I felt about anything. God, sex, booze, football, death...what was important and what was the reason for anything...it definitely created five million new questions.
I think that's why I'm on this board to talk to other people who had that tough road to hoe. Anyone who wants to feel free to email btw, I'm new here and don't know ANYBODY.
Leaving the Truth is liberating but it's only the first step, learning how to find yourself once you've made the choice to walk alone is the second - and the tougher one too.
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Fleur
Welcome Davin!
Leaving the Truth is liberating but it's only the first step, learning how to find yourself once you've made the choice to walk alone is the second - and the tougher one too.
Very true. Leaving the cult physically is one thing, leaving emotionally, now that's the real trick, isn't it?Glad you found your way here, we're all just figuring it out together.
Hope you find what you're seeking here.
~esmeralda
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JH
I have WAY more free time on my hands now, maybe a little too much...
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AlmostAtheist
Gina and I were not regular meeting attenders, we'd been inactive for over a year. But I always felt guilty. Every other day of the week, miss the meeting, feel guilty.
Now I'm liberated from that guilt, and it feels wonderful!
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Gill
Minimus, I hope you're not taking the piss again!