What a great question. Since leaving 9 years ago I have achieved so much. I got a professional in the criminal justice system.This job was so great I got to see all those naughty witnesses who committed crimes and give them an "oh dear what are you doing here look". You would be amazed how many convicted sex offenders attend the KH. (THEN AGAIN YOU WOULD NOT BE SUPRISED)I have been to Uni and achieved a 2:1 degree. I have had two children,have a great partner, have 6 businesses and a fleet of top of the range cars, in which I have endless fun driving past borg members and watching the "hater" reaction. I was so weak and naive while in the borg but I am so strong now it is scary. I am so confident now that I have managed to achieve a bit of a role reversal when I see witlesses. Instead of me putting my head down and crossing the road when I see them I make them so uncomfortable and nervous that they have to look down and cross over. Strangely enough I was visiting a fellow dissed sistren only yesterday and another very confused dissed sisteren arrived who still wants to go back. She asked the usual sad mentally programmed question of when are you coming back and just could not get to grips with the context of NEVER. She then robotically ranted about how selfish I was because I was not thinking of my kids to which I responded thats exactly who I am thinking about I want to protect them from brainwashing. She then tried the death angle to which I replied I don't need to worry about paradise or ressurection I will be content with just having lived life and dying happy.Again she just couldn't understand that that I would not succumb to armaggedon scare tactics. Just for clarification I added " It's not me who should be worried about armageddon its the rest of you I will be standing there looking at your dead bodies on the floor because god likes the genuine article . With that she decided to leave. So the moral of the story is you can achieve inner strength when leaving the borg and defeat them. If your not sure how your inner strenght is progressing - try it on a witless you will soon know where your at.
the outspoken one
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What Positive Things Have You Achieved Since Leaving?
by sweet pea inpurps' wonderful thread about love made me wonder about something else.
what have you achieved/become since leaving the organisation that proves there is a happy, successful life outside being a jehovah's witness?
for me, although it's only been a very short time, too short to achieve much, i count becoming: non-judgemental of my fellow man; a mum that can give her kids all the room to grow and blossom without fear of 'sinning' or being kicked out for bad behaviour; a person that can feel comfortable worshipping in a church or not, depending on whatever i feel like doing; someone who can love and give freely and celebrate life in all it's glory (i just love birthdays!
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Revelation book revisions in Sept KM
by becca1 inthe insert in this months km is 4 pages of revisions for the rev.
book i am going over them one by one.
most seem pretty insignificant, updated figures and such.
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the outspoken one
I was wondering when the amendments to the Revalation Bk would be a topic of conversation. I know a sister who keeps me informed on everthing that goes on in the "witness wonderland". She has been going to the KH for almost 30 years and is in her 50's. She told me about the changes and is starting to question the WBTS. But as with many of you it doesn't suprise me that they have twisted the lyrics to suit themselves again. The problem they have with the peace and security proclamation at the moment is that no world leaders in their right minds would even dare proclaim peace and security because they know it is unrealistic. So rather than the JW's sticking to their original ideas (since these are supposed to be inspired) They change the meanings to suit whatever happens to be on sky news at the time. I would say they are not very confident and trusting in Jehovah, wouldnt you?, surely Jehovah would make their sayings come true since they are his ONLY true servants. Either Jehovah is deliberately ensuring they look like idiots because their haughty ways piss him right off or they are always wrong, whatever the case may be they seem to be getting it wrong an awful ot lately.
By the way the same sister told me about a recent Watchtower that basically said that if a husband goes away on holiday or works abroad and has an affair , his wife should welcome him back and forgive him, anyone seen it? I'm sure that article would make for good conversation
The Out Spoken One