What Is Your Biggest Regret Because You Were a Jehovah's Witness? (page 4)

redhotchilipepper

I regret losing my Worldly friends! I plan to call them, actually, when I get the guts! I regret not having my best friend in my wedding party. That is my biggest regret in life. I just apologized to her recently and cryed my eyes out. I'm so ashamed of that. She should have been my maid of honor by right. She always been there for me, through thick and thin and I for her. It's a shame! That stupid ORG!I hate them!

Incense_and_Peppermints

i mused on this one a long time before answering. at first i thought i had no regrets, 'cause i had no choice in anything - we were dragged into "the truth".

but then i realized there is indeed something i regret. that was ratting out my best friend for having sex with a worldly boy. i was just a kid and told if i didn't tell what she was up to, Jehovah would be very displeased and that was what Satan wanted, et cetera et cetera... anyway she got a horrible beating from her mother, was disfellowshipped and kicked out of her home to go live with her wolrdly aunt.

i'm sorry wanda. forgive me. i love you. and i hope you got out.

candidlynuts

aww red!! thats so sad! but take comfort.. aint no law that says you only get one wedding in life lmao

you should get married once every 10 yrs or so just so you can get new towels ....

JAVA

I recently attended my 30th high school reunion; and although many remembered me ( you are the kid who did not salute the flag) I had no real friendships to rekindle.
There is very little for me to connect with from my past.

This reply hits home for me, too. While in grade and high school I made some friends, but didn't get to involved because they were not "in the Truth." My closest friends were a few kids at the KH, but we all know what happens to these when a JW questions the Tower.

I believe our disconnect from the past is a reason why this forum is so active, in that it's a way of connecting as best we can. Most of us didn't know each other as JWs, but our common history brings us together, and is a substitute for our ghosts of the past. It's easy to forget or leave the Tower, but the friends and shared history leaves a void. This forum helps fill that void, somewhat.

kaykay_mp

I really regret the fact that I backed down whenever my grandparents would say that they would send me to reform school if I don't stop talking to boys/get baptized/pioneer during the summer/etc.

Of course I have the balls to be outspoken right now. Well, I don't really have balls in the literal sense; I'm a girl. Dammit, you know what I mean!

Anyhoo--It's really sad that they would use such an excuse to get me to do Witless stuff. Geez; all they could have done was discuss stuff with me. But rarely do Witless children get to make their own decisions, so I was pretty screwed from the get-go.

laters

kaykay_mp

Sweet _Lullaby

NOTHING AT ALL! I'M VERY HAPPY WITH BEING A J/W! I REGRET NOTHING THIS EVIL WORLD HAS TO OFFER! I THINK SERVING JEHOVAH IS A PLEASURE AND GUESS WHAT, I'M ONLY 17 AND I'M VERY HAPPY!!!!

JAVA

I remember being 17; it was great being a JW and having ALL the Answers. That works until a few of life's realities come knocking. My best to you, Sweet_Lullaby!

Incense_and_Peppermints

NOTHING AT ALL! I'M VERY HAPPY WITH BEING A J/W! I REGRET NOTHING THIS EVIL WORLD HAS TO OFFER! I THINK SERVING JEHOVAH IS A PLEASURE AND GUESS WHAT, I'M ONLY 17 AND I'M VERY HAPPY!!!!

hehe "evil world"

AuntieJane

Dear Sweet,

You are no doubt satisfied with your JW life. But most of those here are damaged due to the teachings of the JW organization...the shunning by their families, losing loved ones due to the no blood MIsinterpretation. Please stay around, you might have a lot to learn. And it won't all be Smiley faces...but, Real Life Stories. Because, you see, this evil world is a Real World, not a fantasy world of Jw'ism.

MungoBaobab

Sweet will be one of us some day. I guarantee it. Anyone with the curiosity to peruse apostate sites and the audacity to join and post has the curiosity to dig a little too deep and the audacity to throw away a defective belief system. She's trying to convince herself with her reply, not us. As we know all too well Watchtower life is far from perfect and something she reads, possibly on here, will strike a chord and snowball into a personal revolution.

I have foreseen it. It is her destiny...

What Is Your Biggest Regret Because You Were a Jehovah's Witness?

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