the roller coaster ride of leaving the jw.org cult..... guilt .
fear.
anger.
The roller coaster ride of leaving the JW.ORG cult....
Guilt
Fear
Anger
Disappointment
Anger
Less Guilty
Happier
Less Angry
Thankful
Lucky
A bit angry again
Dissapointed
Regretful
Empowered
Happy
At peace
Happy
At peace
Happy
At peace...
Hilarity at what we once believed.
i've been lurking for about 3 months now and thought i'd better finally sign up.
you have all been an immense help to me as i have come to realize that this isn't the truth so i want to say a great big thank you!
what a crazy, emotional ride it is to finally face the truth about the doubts that i have carried for many years.
Hey man, congrats on your bravery and free thought, I am sincerely impressed by your inner strength, knowing what it takes to dare to even doubt.
you can make it very easy on yourself and your wife. The Watchtower literature have sold you a god, it's a fatherly, warm, loving God who cares so much for you he even notices a leak, amongst all of earths goings on......etc etc etc... He cares when you are financially broken, when you are emotionally exhausted and when you are physically ill.....
The best thing I ever did, was read the bible, from scratch.... I mean, not in a robitic JW way with a JW focus on specific sentences, ignoring the rest, but reading it as you would read literature, a book. I STRONGLY recommend it.
By by the time you have read a few books with continuity and context you will see things you had never ever seen before, things that will make you realise the bible tells a very different story with a very different God, a very, very, very unpleasant deity.....
trust me, the good book will sink the nails in the coffin itself,,... You have to love the irony
"there are only three reasons you should miss a meeting.
fever, fracture or funeral.
everything else is a sorry excuse.
the science is in: god is the answer.
research shows kids raised with spirituality are happier and healthier in the vulnerable teen years.
why arent we all signing up?.
Tell your kids Santa exist and they will be happier for it and behave better on the assumption of reward,
Doesn't make Santa real.
Correlation does not imply causation and is a well known logical fallacy.
(Assuming some took this OP as sincere!)
(sorry for any typos, i'm on my ipad) so, remember how in my last post i mentioned that i had told some of my dear friends why i decided to leave?
well, one of those friends was a girl... not just any girl, but rather, a girl that i've loved since the moment i've met her.
she used to say that she considered me her best friend and we were really close she just never really returned my feelings for her due to different circumstances i presume.. but i always felt a connection.. anyways, after telling her that i decided to leave because of multiple reasons but that the tolerance of child sex abuse was the final straw, she responded asking where i got my information and that she wanted to talk about it with me.. this feels like an opportunity for me to tell her about my findings, what do you think?
after leaving the dub religion behind, i read everything that i could get my hands on, be it about other religions, beliefs, gods, occult, evolution - you name it - i read it.
i did this to 'catch up' and to educate myself, so that when i can to a decision it would be an intellectual / educational one.
not just because some book or person told me to believe it.. i have over time and with reading aids come to totally believe and accept evolution.
Check this out for basics...
what is the wackiest...strangest....most unusual jw teaching or practice?
Passing around the blood and bones of a dead gods son, under a full moon.
nb: blood will be represented by a cheap red wine, bones by home made crackers...
cuckoo....
and i am finding the adjustment to the real world far more difficult than i ever imagined...i f...it has been about five years since i totally woke up to the fraudulant nwt and then all my other doubts i had carried for years were proved true as well.
but almost all of my few friends are exjw or slack jw's and i feel so isolated...my sons friends are mostly exjw too but not their gf's and they have way more normal friends .
how have you done at replacing lifelong friends and family?
Ouch.....
enough said
recent events and book reads (one suggested by cofty i believe- thank you) have lead me to the only logical and acceptable conclusion:.
there is no god.. simple logical reasoning: matter can neither me created or destroyed.
so the amount of mass in the universe is constant.
What a great thing to read, made my day. Good work.
Reason, evidence and effort along with a huge dollop of honesty will lead people to this conclusion, there is no other.
after leaving the dub religion behind, i read everything that i could get my hands on, be it about other religions, beliefs, gods, occult, evolution - you name it - i read it.
i did this to 'catch up' and to educate myself, so that when i can to a decision it would be an intellectual / educational one.
not just because some book or person told me to believe it.. i have over time and with reading aids come to totally believe and accept evolution.
May I strongly and humbly suggest reading "The greatest show on earth" by Richard Dawkins, not only will it inform you about evolution, but give you mountainous undeniable, evidence that you can share And help others with.
Now you have opened your mind to science and evidence, don't stop there, go look at the data, it's where the exciting element to science begins....
