Excellent post trebor!!!!! You sum her position up better than she probably realises herself.
Sammielee.....Nice synopsis of life as a witness as it's nothing more than individual delusion. If you can't be true to yourself then who can you be true to?
As for Reniaa....You think we hate JW's?......Wrong again. I hate the entity of the organisation NOT the people in it. I believe there were once many and probably still a few in the GB who know that there are major flaws in the teachings but continue nonetheless.
They have to have the need to believe it as much as the R'n'F otherwise THEY would have to admit they are wasting their time.
But for the majority of JW's it does not even OCCUR to them that it's not the "truth" and if they did they would quickly banish such a notion out of the fear it generates.
I Smile when I see people I used to call friends ignore me, they are the ones who are in the wrong and deeply ,deeply misled.
I don't do this in a malicious way , sneering in hate, but rather in a pity.
Let me give you an example; I was driving down the street yesterday and my brother who's an elder comes toward me in the opposite direction
on his bike. He sees me coming and swerves into the next street accross my path to avoid me.....What sad ,childish, and ultimately hateful behaviour. And this is sanctioned by Jesus and the Bible?
What have I personally done to him? Nothing. What have I done to his "beloved organisation"? Said they are wrong and that I'm leaving them.
Sounds to me like the JW's themselves are the ones who are clinging to THEIR hatred and belief that we are all doomed. They NEED to in order to justify their bullying and antisocial behaviour.
If they are wrong and we are right? Well that would just be to horrible to accept wouldn't it?
HK