I have the same feelings now. Know that you are not alone. I have been seeing a counselor it does help to talk about it.
You might want to give it a try. Some days are better than others.
Hang in there
i have been having doubts for years about the org, but it's mostly been just the past couple of months that it's really all unravelled for me.
i'm at that stage now where i don't know what i believe about anything...esp about what happens when you die.. and maybe it's just cause i never had to think about death before (was always countin' on that resurrection in paradise earth!
), but lately i can't stop thinking about it!
I have the same feelings now. Know that you are not alone. I have been seeing a counselor it does help to talk about it.
You might want to give it a try. Some days are better than others.
Hang in there
minimus had a great thread recently asking if any who were witnesses felt guilt as a jehovah's witness.
thought i would build on that a little dealing with how you have moved on after being a jehovah's witness ?.
one definition of guilt in the american heritage dictionary is : " self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing ".
No, I feel fear because gossip can still get around and has been a source of
guilt it can produce in me at times. A lot of sick dubs out there.
I have been working on overcoming these issues though. hope to be able to get over these feelings someday. I still feel their hatered for me
but, I am not going to let it destroy me. I am so happy to be out of that cult. Am still able to get on with the healing with this site and making new
friends - non dubs.
so for some time i have been threatening to burn my remaining watchtower literature.
i had gotten rid of two bookcases worth via a thread or two here, mailing it to various jwders for (hopefully) nefarious purposes.
i was down to one last 32 gallon rubbermaid container.
If you have a fireplace you can burn them to keep warm this fall/winter.
yesterday as i was leaving the apartment, there were two women in skirts, holding bibles at the door across from me.
i almost panicked!
i definitely want to talk the jws if they ever come to my door (no one knows me in this area) but i'm not ready yet!.
I definitely want to talk the JWs if they EVER come to my door (no one knows me in this area) but I'm not ready yet!
The Mormons do and I just hope they don't know some jws and start to gossip about you. Please be careful.
yesterday as i was leaving the apartment, there were two women in skirts, holding bibles at the door across from me.
i almost panicked!
i definitely want to talk the jws if they ever come to my door (no one knows me in this area) but i'm not ready yet!.
Be careful , I had my door open and two mormon guys were standing there and one of them showed me a tract
They could see that I had company and I took the tract. They came back later and I said that I read it and if I had
any questions I would talk to a family member about their beliefs. One snapped at me with is he a jw?!!
I said no and they said oh. and smiled and left my porch. Some one in my apartment must have told them that I was a witness because I never told
them. So much for the fading. Hope they will be nicer with you. Thought the whole thing was kindof funny afterword. Try to keep a open mind.
it has always bothered my how witnesses are discouraged from doing volunteer work because "preaching to them about the truth is the best thing we can do!
" ok, yeah, whatever.
it's true that the bible talks about preaching as being important for christians, but that's far from being the only thing that christians are encouraged to do for their fellow humans.
hey baby
NOBODY is talking about solving the problems of the entire world; I'm just talking about doing what is within my power to help those that I can. It's like saying to someone with the flu "these pills won't cure the flu, they'll just ease the symptoms, so it's not worth taking them." That's freakin' ridiculous!! The flu will get cured in it's own time, but nobody would rightly object to getting a bit of relief while you're waiting for it to happen
How long do they really continue helping some one in need. They always have to get back into the field.
How do you think that makes the person in need feel?
I do a lot of vounteer work and I found that is more rewarding than any time I spent
going out in the door to door work. What happened to the good smaritan that they preach about in the door to door work? I say go for it.
i've never posted something like this before.
an xjw friend of mine sent me this link for a charity that provides birthday gift bags for underprivileged kids.. http://www.cheerfulgivers.org/socialsummer/.
just thought that as xjw some here could relate to what it's like not getting birthday presents and may want to pitch-in..
Thanks for the link. Good idea,one more thing dubs are missing out on.
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why follow "the christ"?
6:15; luke 2:11; john 1:1; matt.
True Christians share Jehovah’s feelings toward such apostates; they are not curious about apostate ideas. On the contrary, they “feel a loathing” toward those who have made themselves God’s enemies, but then a Christia Christian must hate an must hate leave it to Jehovah to execute vengeance.—
A christian must hate those that don't go by what the wt has to say. oh, yah and God is going to kill them for that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5knbrhbul0.
Wonder what they did or will do now that it's been on tv and utube. Maybe there is hope for mj's kids after all.
Hope they will have birthday parties like they did with mj.
instead, they seems to be mostly about legalese, rules and such.
there are some prophesy ones that they pull out of their butts, but aside from that it's all about following the rules better so god doesn't smote you.
they are just so bossy in those mags..
wt studies = fear tactics to keep the rank and file so scared that they find it hard to leave or think for themselves
because they would be running ahead of the slave and willl be killed for sure. Oh,yah at the big A at any minute. So they say- over and over again
and again.