Are You a "Better" Person Since You've Left The Witnesses??? (page 2)

whyamihere

I think I have always been the same person. Then again its not entirely true. I trying not to live in fear or guilt for the most part. I am still learning and undoing everything that went on in my life. I still try and be a good person and a good wife and mother to my family. However right now it is hard for me leaving doing the fade away thing. I am still living in fear and I am in hiding at the sametime. I think that as a JW you did that also. Now I am parting from my former life and what I believed in for so long and starting all over.

The main thing that has changed about me is that I am more open minded and I don't judge people at first glance. We were taught so many awful things I think everyone has to say they changed in some way even if it is a little bit.

I am still trying and learning and moving on with my new life which seems to have a great future not only for me and my husband but for our kids. I think I am becoming a better person each day. I will continue to try and do my best to be a better person. As long as I am out and away from the JW cult I will be and it will take time but I am on my way.

Brooke WI

redskymedic

Definitely better. I live a far more moral and upstanding life now that I am out.

gumby

Had I not picked up the bad habit with farm animals since I exited, I'm almost pretty positive I'd be a better person. It really sucks when you lose Jehovah's spirit!!!!!

Many who were "good" people were good people because they HAD to. If they were bad, Jehovah might not let them in the New System and kill them at armageddon. This told them they better not steal, cheat, lie,etc. It also told them they had to be nice to others and keep clean in the eyes of others.

It's what a person becomes after exiting a mind controling group. This is where the starting line begins.....so to compare the two is apples and oranges.

Gumby

Fleur

Better? Well.....by the JW's standards I'm probably so far gone I have no chance of being considered a better person...especially when the Big 'A' arrives.

Aww, Preston. I'm sure that's what they think of me too...(((((preston)))) we love ya just the way you are!

I am definitely happier than I was, and I try to be 'better'. I plan to work on that the rest of my life, though, to me it's a never-ending process of learning and growth.

logansrun

Of course, in actual fact there are no "good" or "bad" people, only people that do mostly "good" or "bad" things.

B.

gumby

Brad....suppose you take Charles Manson and stand him next to a sweet little old lady who has shown love all her life to others. They are both just standing there doing nothing. Is one good and one bad do you suppose?

Gumby

blondie

A rose by any other name...

JustTickledPink

I'm the same person. I have always considered myself a good person, however now the reasons for NOT doing certain things have NOTHING to do with not making it into a new system or fearing God. My reasons for being a good person are my own.

So I am better now, because my reasons are better, my motivation is better.

minimus

You all seem "better" to me....

Dawn

I am more free thinking/objective and less judgmental. But other than that, it was not leaving the JW's that really made me a better person. It was learning what true christianity meant that made me a better person. Learning that all individuals are important, regardless of their religious beliefs, and learning that I can and SHOULD make work to make this world a better place - not always just "waiting on Jehovah" and the "new system".

Are You a "Better" Person Since You've Left The Witnesses???

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