Posts by ccanova

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Recently Studied With JW's--need help breaking up

by Silvia Plath in

i studied with the jw's for two years and some time this coming week i will be making the "phone call" to tell carol my friend, that i do not want to study any longer with the jw's.

i don't know why i let them into my kitchen to begin with, except there was something about her and i don't make friends well with other women, most of my friends are guys, but carol could tell a irish yarn that made you laugh and feel good.

she made me feel safe and she was fun to go shopping with and talk about problems too, she was like the mother i never had.

ccanova

Another small point, too...Look at how crazy Carol's life is, drinking, the hospital, sounds like she lost some privilidges (sp) in the congregation. She doesn't have it all together herself. Just like almost every Witness that I know or knew. They like to talk about how perfect God and the 'truth' has made their life, but if you really look under the wrapper, it's all gooey and yucky. No one is happy and their lives are a mess.

Just tell Carol that. You want something different for yourself and the organization just doesn't offer that.

My mother (baptized and dedicated for 35 years) asked me, yet again, the other day, to go back to meetings. She thinks my life, which is fine, would be so much better if I went back. I told her that I recieved nothing from the JW's but a life of stress, craziness and dysfunction. I told her that everyone I knew and grew up with had some sort of problem (drinking, drugs, etc) that they were dealing with and NO ONE was happy. I personally would never go back and if anyone told me they were studying with the JW's I would tell them to run and run fast. Then, to thank GOD that they were not raised on that stink. It was horrible.

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They keep preaching urgency but the opposite is happening.

by lost_light06 in

i have not been to the dc yet this year but i have a feeling i know exactly what they are going to say.

do not lose your urgency, keep awake!, dont fall asleep in this old system of things.

basically the same crap we have heard for years, decades, generations (pre-1995 understanding).

ccanova

I hadn't been to a meeting in almost 4 years (currently diffed) but I went with my mother a couple months ago. It was insane. The congregation made up later 40-60 year olds. I was like: "Ma, where did all the young people go?" She was pissed, but seriously, it's as if the younger generation does realize the BS the society is feeding them and they leave. I do believe that this organization will remain, but it will never become huge. The 'information highway' is too vast and there is too much out there for people to read and realize how screwed up people are after they leave. Present company excluded, of course. We're all normal.