i was recently talking to a girl in my psychology class who told me that she use to be a jw and was df'd in the mid 1990's.
this girl shocked me because usually ex-jws are so unhappy and miserable and spend most of their time complaining about the "evil" wt society.
she told me that when she was df'd alot of ex-jws swarmed towards her trying to get her to "bash" the wt but she refused.
This post makes it sound like you have only two choices - i.e. EITHER you can bash the WTS, OR get on with your life.
Has anyone considered that you can do both at the same time?
That is , get on with your life, while at the same time taking a shot at the WTS whenever opportunity presents itself.
That has been my modus operandi in the eleven years since I broke with the Watchtower madness, anyway.
just a little about me: i live in the usa on the west coast, i am currently going to college, ( i know a lot of brothers dont do this but i have some reasons).
i am curious if any other brothers or sisters are in college, and how everybody feels about school?
I deeply regret to this day that, back in 1971, I let the WTS talk me out of going to university: - thereby gaining the engineering degree that would have now gained me a good job in a civilized place -Instead of some location well on the othe rside of the proverbial "Black Stump" where I am now!
To those of you now studying at college;
- Why leave it to a bunch of old fogies in Brooklyn to tell you what you may or may not do with your life?
- What qualifies them to know what is best for you?
- Most importantly; if their "advice" proves to be wrong, who is going to pay the consequences for that , you or them?
The brutal reality is that it is you, Joe average poor so-and-so JW that will suffer from the follies of that lot!
i know so many people, not just witnesses that are on zoloft or similar drugs.
i know of some that, once they left the "truth", stopped taking these meds and have not had to go back on them.
i know of some that, if they did not have them, would not be able to properly function......what about you?
After the death of my 16 year old son in an accident, I was on Prozac for three years. A the end of that time, I ceased it "cold turkey" (not recommended - but it worked for me). Since then, the only medicine that I take for depression comes in a brown bottle - and that wrs better than anything else that I have ever tried!
i find the topic of the 1975 end of the world scenario facinating, especially since i never lived through it.
do you old schoolers ever feel concerned that people will one day forget about what really went down?
with whitewashed tripe like the 'proclaimers' book informing dubs that it was just the false expectations of over enthusiastic apostates, are you at all concerned that the legacy of bullshit that is 1975 will be a forgotten moment in history blamed on you instead where the blame really belongs?
Having always been an avid reader - including, unfortunately that garbage for 28 years - I remember well those magazine articles in 1968 ( 8/15 and 10/8). Furthermore, anyone in those times who dared suggest that the end was not coming in 1975 was branded as "weak".
After 1975, I encountered a number of JWs who reckoned that they never believed that the year would see the big A. Significantly, though - if these ones did believe that in the pre-1975 years, they kept it to themselves.
It is true enough that the WTS did not say in so many words that 1975 was going to see Armegeddon - but they certainly and repeatedly left the thought hanging there; which is just as bad!
i wonder what the profiles of these people are.
the fact is that every sentence they write is taken by over 6 000 000 people almost as a word of god.
(in fact most of us here, i would imagine, at one time or another felt the same).
After an International Assembly back about 1985/86, I met someone from the Writing Department. It was a disappointment, to say the least! This person (who shall remain anonymous) remains to this day one of the most arrogant so-and-sos that I have ever met. I doubt if his education was to any great degree, but talk about a mouth full of razor blades!
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i know people have left for people issues but what about jehovah god and jesus?
what have they done?.
Jez and Serenity Now both sum it up beautifully.
If Jehovah of the Watchtower is what God is, then I loathe the creature!
As an extension to that - if even half of those that reckon they are going to live in the "New System" are going to be there, then I would not want to be.
anyone here master the art of pressing in the doorbell without really pressing it?
how about knocking where it seems loud on the outside, but you know it can't be heard on the inside.
or standing at a door for up to 5 minutes when you know nobody was there.
Just remember - The "Worldwide Witness Work" being carried out by the JWs is an important (only?) sign that we are "Living in the Last Days."
My understanding is that you are residing on the West Island!
what is the wt publication you hated the most?
why did you hate it?
for me, it was probably that damn pink great teacher book.
The "Happiness - How can you find it" and "Making Your Family Life Happy".
In the case of the first one - because they haven't a bloody clue what they are talking about.
In the case of the second one, because the borg is not family friendly to start with.
Our side of the ditch is "Down Under" as well!
