Are you an Irritating Bastard?

gumby

Well......are you?

How many of you ex witnesses out there became irritating bastards to family and friends when you left the Organisation? Did you push your believing mate right out the door with your verbal assaults? Did you send out a long letter to all of your witness family and friends telling them what a lying cult the Watchtower Organisation is? Well.....if you did........maybe your a dipshit for doing that. Why?

I have personally known of about a half dozen ex-witnesses who wouldn't keep their mouth shut about how wrong the witnesses are to everyone they knew, and these people usually always blame the witnesses for getting the treatment they recieve from them. I've seen divorces and seperations as a result from a bigmouth ex-witness.

In all honesty folks, nobody in their right mind will put up with someone continuallly verbally attacking them. It might not be continually.....it might only be once in awhile.....but it's there. I don't blame witnesses who want to depart from their ex-dub mate when the ex-dub will not shut up. This type of badgering does nothing to help anyone escape the cult......nothing. Are you one of them?

Gumby

Netty

Are you one of them?

No, thank God!

Um, g-g-g-ggummby, have you had your coffee yet this morning?

But on the other hand, I may have kept my mouth shut too much. Not good to bottle things up inside.

ozziepost

Yeah, Grumbles, you gone all deep and meaningful?

Actually, I plead "Not Guilty" to your charge. I personally think that there's no need. It's all a question of where we're at in our walk to freedom IMO.

Me? I'm mighty happy and content - don't need to lambast anyone - except you!!

I have personally known of about a half dozen ex-witnesses who wouldn't keep their mouth shut about how wrong the witnesses are to everyone they knew

Perhaps they were new converts?? Or maybe and more seriously they hadn't filled the void of the Borg. What are they doing now? Still a void? or have they found some meaning in their lives?

Cor blimey, I'm gone all d&m meself!!!

Cheers, ozzie (permanently upside-down class)

gumby

Hi Netty. I was on my second cup of coffee when I posted this thread dang it,.....and I'm STILL a grouchy bastard!

Ozmeister.......what prompted this thread, was a personal situation in my hometown with close witness friends my wife and I had while I was still in. This man served as an Elder many many years. After all 5 of their kids moved away, I hear his wife left him. I later find out this man sent letters to all of his kids, his wife, and many others. He now lives on his own, his wife got her own place, and the family took a shitsky basically. Sad.

Had this man not reacted the way he did...I KNOW his kids wouldn't have shunned him and he and his wife would still be together. I feel so bad for him and I am planning to visit him soon and talk with him.

I realise this Organisation has burned many badly, and the anger to verbalize your feelings is strong.....but a person has to realise when enough is enough when the red flags go up.

Gumby......* of the I still need more coffee class*

ozziepost

Gumbles,

You're a caring bastard really aren't you?

This guy really has something going for him with you as his friend.

It seems a strange case - five kids???? what a tragedy that a split should occur. We can only hope that good sense prevails. Good luck with your visit. i hope he hasn't gone all bitter and twisted.

Just a thought: is it possible that the marriage break up has nothing to do with the borg at all?

Cheers, ozzie

Satanus

Hey, gumhead, you started a thread about me. That's the first time anybody ever did something like that. I feel so,,, uh, he wait a minute...

I suppose i could make the excuse that i went from the wt blief, straight to pentacostal type religion. It took about another 2 yrs for me to get cured of that. It filled the void alright, and ranneth over. Well, that's my excuse, and i'm sticking to it. I have toned down a lot since then.

S

Dansk

Hi Gumby,

My wife and I just go along with our lives. We say nothing. That way, JWs may start to ask questions themselves as no one can say we go around lambasting them. If someone wants to know, well that's different. They have to ask. But we're not going to waste our precious lives getting any more concerned about the org. We've moved on and life is good. We just put it down to experience.

Love ya buddy!

Ian

blondie

Preach a sermon

Live a sermon

Which is best

If people approach you and ask a question, answer it kindly and leave it; don't flood people with information they aren't ready to absorb.

Blondie (wondering about her review)

tetrapod.sapien

gumby,

for a few weeks when i first left, i was an irritating bastard with my wife. but you know, it's a big thing leaving. and i had no one to talk to. no worldly friends, no witness friens, just my wife. but it did not take long to see that it was not the way to go. she's just a victim too. but victims cannot start the healing process until they are ready. so, things got a lot better when i became an irritating bastard here, and started posting.

now we have the odd conversation about the org, but my focus isn't there any more. she will throw the odd jab my way too, to which i will often reply with a jab as well. but we seem to almost always end up laughing it off. which i think is healthy. we argue, but not about the troof. she is still adjusting to being the head of the house.

Englishman

We all know what happens to irritating bastards!

Englishman.

Are you an Irritating Bastard?

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