Who Are You?

by compound complex 20 Replies latest jw friends

  • jp1692
    jp1692

    Thanks, CoCo.

  • LV101
    LV101

    I feel your pain and concern re/your own child/children in the cult. I can't read enough topics about it's demise no matter how unrealistic/absurd. Escapism is certainly not the answer but hope is always there. I constantly remind myself to allow people to be who they are -- even JWs. Doesn't matter - nothing I can do.

    Great video link re/depression -- what a hold.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    IT'S A STRANGE TWIST, somewhat for the better, but not a totally satisfying state of affairs.

    More and more of my family's younger members, raised as Witnesses, have left the organization (some very recently). On the one hand, I am grateful once again to be in contact with them. On the other hand, however, I feel bad for their still-in family who must grieve for their "lost" children.

    We all lose, somehow or another . . .

  • punkofnice
    punkofnice

    Call me Ishmael.

  • Tara N Seals
    Tara N Seals

    Call me Jonah.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, punk and Tara.

    I appreciate your pithy posts; would you kindly explain. Your meaning is probably obvious, but I just awoke and the cobwebs have yet to clear.

  • Tara N Seals
    Tara N Seals

    LOL.

    Call me Ishmael, the narrator in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

    Call me Jonah, Kurt Vonnegut's The Cat's Cradle.

    I was just poking at Punky.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Thanks, Tara!

    Some people need a poke!

    Edited to add:

    Now I get it! I asked a question, viz., "WHO ARE YOU?", and you both replied. Takes so little to throw me off track!

  • punkofnice
    punkofnice

    coco - tara - It's been a bloody long time since I had a poke, I can tell ya.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    That's what friends are for! Thanks for posting.

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