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Gregor

I don't know anyone personnaly who was fortunate enough to start their life with a silver spoon in their mouth, then grow up in a warm loving family with every advantage of wealth and community, the best health care and education leading into a satisfying career, successful marriage and personal fulfillment. I know such people exist.

I am intrigued by those of us who have had a life full of challenges and, yes, injustice. I won't list mine here but suffice it to say it has not been a bed of roses nor has it been all bad.

Every so often someone posts here and scolds us for not getting on with our life and forgetting about the JW experience. My response is that I have got past it. It is water under the bridge but I feel a desire (responsibilty?) to help others avoid it or get free of it. Maybe I am partly motivated by revenge but so be it.

AK - Jeff

Could have written that myself, Gregor.

I do not envy those with the silver spoon, but I don't respect them much either. I think that those of us who have to make our own way in this world are better off. The roses smell just as sweet to the poor.

Regarding the Jw experience. I am over it, mostly. I am angry at God for allowing the whole damned thing. If he is isn't there, well then my anger is unnoticed isn't it? I am frustrated more by my past due to my rural area. I run into them often, don't see a move in my plans due to age and circumstance. So I play the game of 'if you are mean to me, I will make you miserable in public before those whom you hope will listen to your message through your acts of righteousness'. So what? I hit 50 without a religion, or friends left over from the one I left behind. Still, if I seek to make the self-righteous bastards squirm a little sometimes for their hateful treatment of me, so what? Sometimes revenge is theraputic.

Jeff

rebel8

I reserve my right to vent as often as I see fit. Rather than venting being a symptom of not "getting on with it", venting makes it possible.

As far as envy goes, I'm not as kind as you guys. I am jealous of people who are born with health and loving, nontoxic families.

aligot ripounsous

I became a JW as an adult, past 30, having had a university degree before being involved with JWs, was already well engaged in a decent if not high flying civil service career, so I didn't have to suffer from education starvation in my young age nor professional frustration. That allowed me to always consider myself as a free, if individualistic, JW. Got married with a JW girl, I don't regret it because it provides a common stock of values and, all in all, although she's less vocal than me, my wife is close to my independent approach to the organization. So far, so good, I'm getting on with it, all the more so that being a JW has always remained a personal affair since I didn't force my children to become JWs and, as an actual fact they are not.

hemp lover

I'm over the religion, too, for the most part, but I like this board and I like seeing what's new with the JWs. I miss my family, but I've learned not to dwell on it, except for when I get letters like the one my new stepmommy sent me, asking me when I'm coming back to Jehovah - LOL. I've been drafting a reply in my head for about seven months now. There are so many ways to go with that one and so many nuances to consider, such as do I ever want to meet this person and do I care if my daughter ever sees her grandfather again?

parakeet

" Every so often someone posts here and scolds us for not getting on with our life and forgetting about the JW experience. "

If the WTS was a defunct organization, we all could forget about the dubs and what they did to us. But it's still limping along, spreading misery and death wherever it goes. Many posters here are trying to reveal the WTS for what it really is in hopes of saving at least a few people from having to go through what we went through, and what some are still going through.

If those scolders were trapped in a burning building (this tired cliche again), would they want those of us who escaped to just get on with our lives and forget about those still trapped?

Gregor

Excellent analogy, Parakeet. Not a cliche to me. Don't think I've heard it put that way before.

ninja

well said greggo

I am 100 per cent committed to doing what I can to expose the lies of the watchtower to my dying day

I promise to help others see through the lies of the watchtower by whatever means possible

I promise to support anyone struggling to leave the web of deceit they have been involved with...at any time they need said support

and all the above I vow to carry out dilligently......well...except for when "big brother" is on television next...kept to 4 lines for ippy the hippy to read

ninja

oops....soz ippy ....it was 5 lines.....................

JeffT

As a one of my spiritual advisors says "Families that don't look dysfunctional just hide it better." I had a lot of advantages growing up. I don't know if that counts as a silver spoon, from my standpoint it wasn't without challanges or low points.

I came in as an adult, was probably considered as having a bad attitude and left. Yes, I feel it is important to help out those that are still trapped in a destructive cult.

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