New member - quick hello (page 2)

stopthepain

welcome melmoth.I enjoyed your 1st post.

love2Bworldly

Welcome--looking forward to hearing your story.

TheListener

Welcome Melmoth. I appreciated your post. I'm also a lifer. Although I'm used to using that term related to long time bethel brothers who will never leave.

I look forward to your posts.

doogie

"eh, heh, heh...he said "new member"..."

god i feel old. anyway, welcome

Netty

Guess I was a lifer. It's always good to discuss your thoughts on things. That's what we like doing here. Welcome!

Nice to have all these greetings so fast.

rebel8: Yes, I recall thinking that the 'cult' arguments were a bit over the top when I first came across things online. I've since come to believe that there is at least some validity to that way of looking at it - especially after reading experiences of people whose exit was far tougher than mine.

MerryMagdelane: Funny - I forget some of these odd little details of JW life: highlighting passages from the junior-high-level articles to read back, slightly reworded. For me now, it's all just weird nostalgia, but I do feel for those who are still down the rabbit hole, as it were. And I'll try to stay active, if only to avoid having a pair of Master Members coming round my place for an encouraging call. (My apartment building has doormen who keep the riff-raff from wandering in, so don't bother.)

TheListener: You're right, 'lifer' doesn't quite fit for those born into JW families. Is there another term that works?

EvilForce: I've been meaning for years to sit down with my father and ask him if he really genuinely went year to year as I grew up, expecting The End to come at any time. Part of my hesitation is that I honestly don't know what his relationship is to the JWs these days. I believe he and my mother (now deceased) got into it in large part because he'd been a drafted war veteran at a young age and saw enough horror to make him receptive. He could vouch personally, I'm sure, for the idea that the world and mankind is awful - he'd seen it for himself. I know he had doubts, and he made no fuss at all about my fading off - I just don't know how deep the doubts went, or what he was thinking at the time. He might well have been pleased for me - I just don't know (yet).

I'll write it all down sometime, for what modest use it might be to someone, somewhere.

M

kls

Welcome Melmoth ,glad to have ya here

codeblue

Welcome

I was raised as a JW and lived it for 30 years.

I will NEVER join another religion, after this experience, although I feel comfortable having my personal relationship with God and THAT"S it. I see no need for a religion, it serves as a box that includes extra rules that aren't Bible based. For those who need a religion, more power to them.

Enjoyed your first post!!!

Codeblue

MerryMagdalene

Do stick around, Melmoth! I like you already

~Merry

the_classicist

Welcome to the board and have fun here.

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