by Caveat 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
No I’m not crazy now… but maybe I was back then.
Did you ever prayed for guidance and opened your bible in a passage that seem to show you the way?
Did you get a innocent comment from an old sister at the hall that seemed at the time like advice from the Almighty?
Did you feel the public talk was too fitting to your particular situation to be a coincidence?
It did happen to me a couple of times and I know people that are completely altered by such experiences…
Did you?
Nope... never.
In meetings, never!
Since spiritual awakening? Regularly.
After "spiritual Awakening part one" this was my everyday life. Getting reinstated put out that fire rather quickly, though, lol.
I now have to wonder "was I crazy?" or "was I starting on the right path, but got sidetracked by the JWs?"
No, there's no such thing
I can definitely say no in the most common understanding of being talked to.
But there's also a part of me that wonders if we should look for the message in the loving actions of people that look out for us - even at cost to themselves at times. The WT program always wanted to make me tune out. The charitable works being done by other teenagers in my highschool wanted me to try and tune in. I'm still not sure if I'm even on the right badnwidth, let alone closing in on the frequency.
SP:
No, there's no such thing
So speaks another ludite...
Yes. It was during the darkest hours for me, the deepest of depression. I was praying all the time, and I decided to try the bible trick, lol. Sure enough, it fell open to a Psalm that spoke directly to my situation, and a solution, that while difficult, was righteous (or so I thought).
Oddly, looking back, it gave me some comfort, even though I simply could not put the scripture to use. Which means it no doubt did more harm than good, due to guilt etc. Ah well, part of the process I suppose.
And meditating on it since then, I've come to realize that it is just the absolute wrong thing to ever say to a person in dispair.
If "God" and "talk" are used metaphorically, yes.
How many time do we "hear" in anything (coincidence, dream, somebody's or our own words or acts) just the "message" which need to "hear", and that helps us (although somewhat irrationally) to make some decisive step? This has happened to me quite often.
Also, during those last painful years, the talks and WT's seemed to be speaking so directly to me.
It's what happens when life gets so bad that you finally start paying attention, you can apply just about anything to self. And you will, until/unless you conciously, intellectually, think your way out of that trap.
This is exactly why I recommend that people "think" their way out of the WT, and even out of depression (to the extent possible), as oppossed to "feeling" their way out. It usually takes a combination of both though.
