by garybuss 40 Replies latest jw friends
Hey, I'm perfect! However, I didn't become perfect through the WTS, I became perfect all by myself.
I was told when I was 7 years old that this old system wouldn't last another five years. Here I am twenty years later.
I was told by the elder I studied with that this old system won't last another ten years. That was 12 years ago and he's dead now.
I'd say this old system is doing pretty good. Life is what you make it, not what Jehovah makes it.
Good one Gary!
Dismembered
Reading some of these posts makes me very grateful that i saw sense at the relatively young age of 32 and knocked the Religion on the Head.
I too got all the "you wont start School,leave School,start work,get married (ad nauseum)"baloney.
But hey,the old cliche of lifes what ya make it has never seemed so appropriate as now!
hey gary... get your wife to get everything she needs to look perfect on credit cos we will never have to pay it back in this system
only if your conscience allows it of course
25 years ago Mt St Helens blew up and my wife had a birthday. She's been a rather high maintenance project even if we met in a delusion, skipped courting, and were married in the basement of a hardware store by a Chevy auto mechanic on September 11.
If you ever see the movie FARGO you will know how she talks.
I bought her a talking picture. (It's actually a mirror but she doesn't know it.)
Yup, I am only 35, but I remember my mother adamently telling my Dad not to worry about money, that he would never retire in this "rotten system of things" and I remember that when we use to talk about our future, be it children, careers, her old age, ANYTHING, she would shut it down with, "The new system will be here by then." Now that I think about it, what a horrible way to raise a kid, not to let them dream about the future.
Do parents still tell their children this? I think so, because quite frankly, the meetings seem even more doom and gloom than I ever ever ever remember them in my whole life.
Jez
If you ever see the movie FARGO you will know how she talks.
Awwww, Jeeez, .....where is this gosh darn paradise? Yaaaaaaaah, wellllll, these things take time ya know. I am starting to think that darn tootin' paradise just isn't coming.
A parent's job is to prepare the child for life. My parents taught me to avoid life and prepare for a miracle. A miracle that was nothing but a dead man's delusion.
The education I got from the Witness people told me I was going to die cause I knew I wasn't doing "enough" to please God. Their guilt inducing strategies backfired on me. Instead of wanting to do more, I got discouraged and kind of gave up. It wasn't a healthy way to go though childhood and adolescence.
Gary,
you reminded me of the couple who brought my parents to the "troof". He and his wife were the type of couple who had the time to do one and only one thing: make converts to this freaking religion.
That guy used to say the same thing: "we are in the iminency of the new order", back when the term "new order" was still used. The man died 3 years ago, I was told. His wife is still alive, in her eighties. The irony of all this is that she seems to have come to her senses because now she's marrying a man of her age from the other side of Brazil.
After screwing my parent's and a lot of other people's lives, she seems to believe now is the time to have some fun! Go figure.
Observador.
It seemed so doable and my wife was scheduled to be perfect by now.
ROFL!!!!!!! Your wit is so good.
And now I finally "get" notperfectyet's user name...
bebu
