Good article. I agree with your accessments.
It's hard to wake up and smell the coffee and become responsible for your life
and all the negative karma you have spit out.
I think that is why many never leave, the little voice inside tells them they can
not deal with realtity after living in never never land for so long.
I'm hoping there is a next life and I will be better prepared when
I put my order in.
I think in my previous life I was a dog so I guess I am doing better this time around.
If I wasnt a dog, I must not have been a real good person, to be saddled with
this JW curse. This life was like a punishment for something I did in another
life.
I probably wasnt real good and I probably wasnt real bad.
Maybe I was a used car salesman, or a politician,
Being raised by a witness mother I was pretty clueless until I escaped the tower at 31.
I have to be thankful I made it this far.
I have to be thankful that I didnt go to vietnam and get blown up or crippled.
And if there is no next life, I guess I wont know if I am dead.
I never had the luxury of playing with demons or visiting Psych wards.
When I escaped the tower in 83, I spent 7 years at AA.
They gave me free therapy, 1$ a night.
With no criminal record or mental record to follow me around for life with all
the JW bullshxt luggage my mother gave me.
They kept me from hurting myself or anyone else.
5 of those years were the best 5 years of my life, heaven on earth nirvana.
I would say I was a recovering Alcoholic when I would speak at the AA meetings
but to myself
I would say I was a recovering Jw. then I worked the program.
All the while never touching another meeting or publication.
I know I have said a lot. I guess I am trying to say I am thankful for 1975 and getting out several
years latter. I started my fade in 76.
I quit being a servant, and giving talks, field circus.
So once I saw the light of 76 I did very little damage to anyone, very little
bad karma.
I just had to figure out how to escape.