Hi Jurs;
I'm pretty sure MOST EX-JWs have had that fear. When you have been indoctrinated for yers, it's not THAT easy just to let it all go. It might be "one big realisation" as JanH said, but most people have a little personal demon sitting in the back of the head, whispering: WHAT IF......?
A few years back there was a nasty autumn storm on the Norwegian West Coast, and in a town called Aalesund a guy came screaming into the welfare office - he had completely lost it. He had been worried by reports on hunger and earthquakes, and when this storm ripped the roof off buildings, blew ships on shore, he lost it. Paniced. ARMAGEDDON IS HERE!
It's easy to laugh at stuff like that, but most people I know coming out of the Watchtower DO have those doubts, or maybe more FEARS. WHAT IF?
The only way of getting rid of these things - and the only way of getting mentally healthy (!!), is to study. Study the claims of the false prophet in Brooklyn.
Study the Watchtower records as a prophet. Some record! So far 100% miss!
Study the record of their excuse of a "god". This Jehovah chap, supposed to be the editor of the magazine in the world who has printed the most false prophecies!
I'd say this Jehovah has been pissed since the day ol' Booze Rutherford arrived, organizing a new smugler-route from somewhere to heaven - drinking all day long!
I guess that's the reason for the so called "remnant" to grow in numbers as well. The poor bastards are dead drunk, steps outside a cloud, and falls down! So, they need a new idiot down here. That's how even people in the Senile Body came to be "anointed", remember?
Knowledge, my friends. That's what makes it. Knowledge - not superstitions. Psychological crutches; "Where do we go now??" - no use. Learn to stand on your own feet folks, take your own decitions, and tell the Watchtower, their redicolous joke of a god, the window-cleaning elders and the rest of the mindcontroled grown-crew to go f*** themselves! (I was a good guy now, right? I didn't use the word "fuck"!)
Welcome to the real world. It's actually real good. In the real world the "satanic" governments even try to handle pedophiles!
Yakki Da
Kent
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