A Question for You (page 2)

Copernicus

wife:

Why are you asking these questions?

What would your answers be?

think41self

IW,

Interesting question. My husband and I asked this of ourselves shortly after we left...because we missed the relationships we could no longer have...not because we felt we had left the "truth".

I can honestly say that I would NEVER go back. I agree with what others have said...God or whoever would have to directly communicate with me if he wished me to do otherwise...and then I'd keep him so busy with questions like "Where the HELL have you BEEN"? we would never get around to discussing my going back.

I too swore for 35 years that NOTHING would ever make me leave "god's organization". One of my favorite scriptures used to be Romans 8:38,39...about nothing separating us from God's love. Ahhhh, the passion of youth!

I am too happy enjoying my freedom to ever be enslaved to anyone or anything...

Tracy

Francois

Will I ever return?
No, I'll never return,
And my fate will be unlearned.
I may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston,
I'm the man who'll never return.

Ooops. Sorry. Got carried away there for a moment. With apologies to the Kingston Trio and "Charlie & the MTA."

Seriously, nothing could induce me to return to the JWs. Not changing the shunning policy. No changing the blood policy. Not changing any policy dealing with any thing.

Why?

Cause it ain't the truth. None of it. They don't speak for God.

I prefer the approach of an earlier poster: If God wants me to know something, he'll tell me himself. No more middlemen.

Franc

Where it is a duty to worship the Sun you can be sure that a study of the laws of heat is a crime.

Mommie Dark

could you ever see any reason for you to return to the organisation?

not if someone offered me a zillion bucks. Seriously. I can't imagine a circumstance that would make me go back.

What would have to happen for you to return?

Donkeys fly, monkeys fly out of my butt, monkeys fly out of ALL Y'ALL's butts, and Jesus H. Christ comes pogoing past on a rhinestone encrusted pogo stick... right after that, I'M THERE!

Under what circumstances would you ever go back?

see above. After we all get over the monkeys flying outta our butts, we can all go back together.

hippikon

I’m with jayhawk1 – It would take divine intervention for me to even believe in God

"God was evolutions biggest mistake"

Hippikon

individuals wife

I can honestly say that there is nothing that would ever make me return. I could no longer stand the hypocrisy and deception within the organisation and I could not feel this love that they were supposed to have amongst themselves. They do not give people room to be who they want to be, I felt as though my character was gradually being sucked out of me and was becoming a clone. I think that if God had an organisation on the earth then it would not cause people so much pain and anger, some of the personal accounts on this board just fill me with immense sadness.

I believe that the witnesses have lost all their credibility and it really surprises me that after all the alterations to doctrine and backtracking over the years anybody can take them seriously.

soylibre

I somewhat agree with Amazing.....if they would change the shunning practice...I would like to find some old friends that I cared a lot about....if indeed they truly changed the PRACTICE and not just what's written in the WT.....but I will never again belong to anything Organized again....don't even want my name on the vistors list.....Too many bad memories.....it's just like a divorce...well if your ex changes and makes someone else a great spouse great....yippee..but you're still finished...no more...that's it...I'm out....no looking back...BITE ME BROOKLYN!

teejay

individuals wife

Just a couple of quick questions, the first directed at exJWs - could you ever see any reason for you to return to the organisation? What would have to happen for you to return? Under what circumstances would you ever go back?

Usually I try not to read other's responses before making my own, but this time I slipped up and read what jayhawk wrote...

I would never go back unless Jehovah starts talking directly to me. I am tired of the middle man.

God! How perfect. Even if they reformed the movement,

even if they apologized for the ban on higher education and the 1975 fiasco;

even if they totally rescinded the disfellowshipping policy;

even if they exposed all of the pedophiles that up till now they have been so interested in protecting;

even with all of this, I'd need to hear the unmistakable voice of god,
and even then, he better have a damn good reason.

In the words of JT...

... just my two.

peace,
todd ~ who's freakin' tired of the middle man...

neyank

Hi IW,
The only reason one would have to go back to the WTBS,
is if the org. proved itself to have Gods backing and be directed by God
as they have claimed.
With all of their false teachings, I can't see any way that they can prove
that.
So would I go back?
NO NO NO WWWAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Francoise,
By the way,That man is still riding 'neath the streats of Boston.

neyank

Free2Bme

Hello I.W.,

I'm cringing as I type but I did consider going back some time ago just to be reinstated and look up the friends I left behind who I really cared about.
Then I imagined all the crawling and creeping I would have to do and the lying to the elders plus probably having to have a study to make sure I still remembered what I was supposed to believe ( this could get awkward and quite amusing as several 'beliefs' have changed.)

Then I thought what would I have in common with my old friends anymore? The honest and open chats we always shared would become guarded and careful and the slightest slip-up I made about my real feelings ....aaah I can't even imagine their reaction!!!

The only way it could work is if I genuinely believed it was the truth again. That would be impossible.

Free

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