reading COC for the first time

by This is my tigersuit 52 Replies latest jw experiences

  • Fernando
    Fernando

    Welcome This is my tigersuit!

    I believe shock is one of the emotions that are common to the awakening process for many.

    It is a rollercoaster ride.

    There might be anger and related emotions.

    All in all it is a process of transformation. It is not an event. One can't simply "get over it".

    It can also be painful when giving birth to something better.

    New found freedom can also be initially confusing.

    Professional help from a good Psychologist (who does not push addictive and synthetic psychoactive drugs) can smooth and aid the process greatly.

    Best wishes on the journey.

    Holler out via PM if I can be of any help.

    Greetings

    Fernando

    SEQ, Australia

    ex since mid-2009

  • villagegirl
    villagegirl

    THink of that song by Paul Simon " Make a new plan Stan, Slip out the back Jack,

    but get yourself free" Your real life begins now.!!

  • steve2
    steve2

    COC has opened many eyes and continues to do so.All new growth entails some pain as we come face to face with the realization of having wrongly assumed we had the truth when we so did not. It takes guts to face up to this uncomfortable and painful realization. The choice is, do we stay stunted in a religious organisation that treats us like docile children or grab hold of this opportunity to learn how to grow up, stand on our own two feey and start behaving like the thinking adults we are capable of becoming...free from the shackles of human-inspired religion.

  • DJS
    DJS

    TigerSuit,

    Welcome to freedom, especially freedom of choice and conscience. You will absolutely love it. And you know what? You will likely be a much better person. Leaving the Borg is the best thing that I have ever accomplished (entering the Borg was the worst). After reading COC i just laughed out loud and realized what a deluded dumbass I had been all of those years. It was humbling, as I would have never thought before reading it that I could have been so blind and manipulated.

  • adjusted knowledge
    adjusted knowledge

    I just began reading it yesterday. I've been out since around 99. I thought the book was outdated and written in the early 80's. I was surprised it has been revised up to as recently as 2004. Too bad Franz is dead to give his comments on jw.org and the current path the org is taking.

  • Focus
    Focus

    This is my tigersuit:

    Good luck. I am sure you will make it.

    However, understand that CoC is but the starting point. Its author, at the time of writing, was far from objective and still very much mentally enmeshed in the Evil Watchtower Sicksiety, still in denial about many of the worst aspects of "The Truth" (i.e., "The Big Lie").

    Later on, you will realise that those of us who fully understand the scam, right from its origins in the late 1860s through to the present day, view Ray Franz as a Cult-Apologist.

    But first complete reading CoC and let the import of its words fully soak into you. You are not yet ready - I can tell from your response - to receive the full truth about The Truth, which creatures such as I (and but a few others here) are competent to deliver to you.

    It is helpful if you say to yourself, at least once a day:

    "I was a deluded dumbass, a retard, a moron, a fool, an idiot, a gullible naive cretin. I must not feel sorry for myself, but instead cringeingly apologetic to all others I tried to preach to or to convert, and thus tried to infect them with the foul, disgusting mental disease that I carried. I am very angry with myself and with the Wicked Watchtower Cult which scammed me."

    The rage that should grow in you is cleansing. Aim it at the right people - not at other deluded idiots (like yourself, in your past).

    And improve your QoL - what the Watchtower Liars' Cult robbed you of.

    Personally, I fully understand why members of the Governing Body travel with escorts. Occasionally, ones carrying licensed firearms.

    I'm actually surprised none of these scumbags, or their predecessors, has been assassinated for their appalling and malevolent crimes. Well, I guess almost all dubdubs are sheep, and the wolves (who would pose a physical danger, if they put aside their evil lying and left) are a thousand times less likely to leave - they choose stay within the folds of the Mother Whoreganization to continue to prey on the sheep and lambs.

    A rollercoaster lies ahead of you.

    __

    Focus

    ("Wise" Class)

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    TIGERSUIT, I went through the very same emotions when I was first awakening, and that's been over 3 years ago. The emotions remain a rollercoaster. It takes time to cope with the reality that you've been so foolishly blinded by what you were positive was The Truth(TM). In reality, it's a lie built on a lie to cover another lie.

    Good luck in your journey,

    Doc

  • DJS
    DJS

    @ Focus: "I was a deluded dumbass, a retard, a moron, a fool, an idiot, a gullible naive cretin. I must not feel sorry for myself, but instead cringeingly apologetic to all others I tried to preach to or to convert, and thus tried to infect them with the foul, disgusting mental disease that I carried. I am very angry with myself and with the Wicked Watchtower Cult which scammed me."

    The only thing I would add is to use the anger as rocket fuel to accomplish as much as possible in life: education, travel, culture, art, etc., etc., and whatever fuels your fire. Anger can be a positive emotion if used correctly. Focus, I was a born-in, so can I get a bit of a reprieve?!! LOL.

  • KiddingMe
    KiddingMe

    Welcome This is my Tigersuit!

    I described my feeling and emotions when reading CoC with the exact words "a roller coaster ride". I had feelings of shock, hurt, and anger. I even felt fear and nausea at times. I cried on the Malawi part. I also felt very lonely, in that I couldn't share any of this with my closest friends and loved ones.

    Thankfully, I could come here for support. Continue to do the same.

  • This is my tigersuit
    This is my tigersuit

    thanks everyone so much for the comments! i needed this support. as for my wife, as one of you asked, she is taking this journey with me. in fact, she confessed that she ALWAYS has had doubts and saw that something wasnt quite right here.

    yes i see too that franz was an apologist. we are not. we still love our brothers and sisters, and thats why the malawi thing hurt so much. but we are both filled with anger and hurt now.

    i plan to make a post about our experience, but i was kind of holding out to see how this pans out. we had already made our plan to fade prior ro reading this book, but the fade will be accelerated now.

    thanks again everyone, its so good to know we're not alone

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