pg 55, paragraph 25:.
there are times when an emotionally distressed.
christian may seek professional help.. whether a christian or his family pursues treatment.
Bottom line is......they don't want you to be enlightened to anything that makes you think! If you learn to look into yourself and the bad things that happened to you.....you may well discover that you don't have to be a WT zombie anymore. That's what scares them! You just might point the (truthful and well deserved) finger at them as the source of all your problems and anxieties.
HappyDad
i looked through your posts but couldn't find your life story.
have you written it?.
i would love to read your progression from/through jw to avid scholar :).
Thanks Leolaia,
That was informative. Ok.......I won't call you an expert. I'll use the term "amazing"!
HappyDad
just a quick poll if you will.... i personally hate to cook.
it's not that i'm particularly bad at it, i just don't have a whole lot of patience or motivation to do it.
i suppose it has something to do with my having to live alone?
I love to cook when I have the time. I can make anything from a hard boiled egg to beef wellington. If you can read.......you can cook anything. That's how I learned and always recieve praise from those who share my gastronomical delights.
HappyDad
not long ago i had 100 'friends' - or so i thought.
i certainly had 100 or more people who said they were friends.
then i left a cult, and found myself with very few friends - those kind in the flesh, in the community.
Jeff,
Even though I boast that I have more friends now than I ever did as a JW.....I know that if I dropped dead in my apartment.......no one would know any different. The only person that matters to me and loves me is my daughter who lives 1200 miles away in Florida and calls me every day. If I didn't answer my home phone or cell phone in a day or so........and didn't respond to her emails and Facebook inquiries.........she would make the proper calls to whomever. Even the church I now attend and claim friendship with some of the ones there....... they are superficial. I say that with confidence because when I quit going for a time, the only call I got was weeks later from the pastor wondering what happened to me. I'm ready to give that up also. I've come to realize that I don't need to "belong". If I want to claim belief.....that is between me and the creator I believe in.
I think that at almost 64 years of age.....I'm finally evolving.
Best to you,
HappyDad
my book, the end is nigh...again (but this time we really mean it) is now finished and available to read.
its a tongue in cheek, real life saga about the life of a second generation jehovahs witness that pokes fun at the organisation that to this day continues to completely screw up the lives of many decent people.
i have uploaded the entire manuscript to a site called slush pile reader.
Why? There have been enough tell all books as it is. Getting kind of boring!
the internet is full of confliction on the subject.
anyone have firsthand knowledge?.
As usual, Beks has her head in one of her orifices.
this morning as i lay lying in bed i was listening to music on the radio station on my headset.
when i do this, i do this so as not to disturb the wife while she is sleeping.
only this morning, she had already risen and was downstairs getting ready to go to work and just about to walk out the door.
Yikes! Even though I am now a church going Christian, this would scare me away from being one if I wasn't already a believer. Too many religious kooks in the world....from Christian to Zen! Talk about how to turn a potential Christian off....yikes again!
HappyDad
i think it's been around 7 years for me.
and i never ever missed going or being with the "friends"..
From 2000-2003.....probably less than a dozen times. That was after I read COC. Last meeting after quite a long hiatas was memorial of 2003 because of guilt feelings. Haven't been back since and do not intend to. No more guilt whatsoever!
HappyDad
i was curious to read what you have achieved and accomplished since leaving the watchtower society?.
in your opinion are you heading toward the success of your goals?.
personally i am determined to have something near the life i was meant to have before the watchtower organization got a hold of my mind and bent it towards their own purposes and uses.. i think many here would be overjoyed to hear of your successes!.
Total happiness. It didn't happen all at once but when I made new friends and saw that they were not "satanically" controlled as I was always told.......I realized they were just like me........wanting a happy life.
These days.....I don't even think about once being a JW until I check in to this site to see how others are getting along.
There isn't much I can do, but my heart goes out to all who have to try to make a new life beyond JW. Many of the experiences make me just shudder.
HappyDad
this was posted in the men's room stall, i hear the instructions in the womens room was more detailed.. this was in addition to having a "bathroom attendant" handing out 1 paper towel per person.. i haven't felt so childish since i was in grade schooll, i had to wonder if all the tall people around me were really grown men and women.. .
Want to be mean in the bathroom? Take a tube of "blueing" which is usually used in machine shops for fitting parts and put some around the toilet seat. It's best if the toilet seat is black, then the blueing won't be seen. The stuff is very difficult to get off of your fingers so use some of that toilet paper to smear it.
