by minimus 72 Replies latest jw friends
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It Veried as I Got Older..
child-10
teenager-5
adult-0
Eventually I Had To Leave..
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.........................................................I Never Returned To WBT$ FantasyLand..
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...OUTLAW
I feel bad for those that go back because of family considerations.
Minimus:
On a scale of one to ten, I was probably a 6 on a good day. That's because I refused to quit my full-time job and "pioneer" and I also get a bad rating for not allowing myself to be targeted by all the users looking for single women to do favors.
I certainly wasn't giving up a real job in order to make chump change just so that I could knock on more doors. I always felt to myself that I made enough concessions to be in the religion, but I wasn't pursuing poverty just so people there would like me better. No way.
These people weren't paying my bills so I had no interest in what their opinion of me was. Now, I am glad I am not around there being pestered by people with hard-luck stories.
LHG, you weren't easily fooled!
Minimus:
Yeah, but I still wasted too damn much time there. I should have walked ten years earlier than I did.
As a young teen: 10
As an older teen: 5 (Got to dabbling in other things, like beer & pu$$y)
As an young married: 3 Too busy with life
As a young father: 10 Going to give our kids the "best way of life"
As a young MS: 11
As an new elder: 12 Wholeheartedly did it 110%
As a ladder climber: 20 Good at playing the insider game
As a notsonew elder: 6 Could no longer take the BS insider politics
As a conscious class: .5 Got family in so gotta smile and fake it (as little as possible)
Doc
amazing how we might have so many ups and downs before we decide to flee.
I was 10 or so when my parents came in, last of my dads family to do so. I was never thrilled or zealous about it, I would say maybe a 2 or 3 on my best days. Got baptized at 21 so I could get married in the Kingdom Hall. After 12 years when my marriage broke up I faded very quickly with no thoughts other than feeling a burden lifted. Then married a nonWitness and have never looked back. Until recently had no issues with family, but recently the shunning has started. My parents are both gone now, and my attitude is "to h#!! with narrow minded cousins who are wasting their lives in a cult. I was always embarrassed to admit that I was a JW.
In the 80s as a teenager - 10
In the 90s as an reg aux pioneer - 10
In the 00s post Bethel - 4
2010 overlapping nonsense - 2
2013 - 0 (wife and I fade)
- 10. That's a negative ten . . .
