by snare&racket 16 Replies latest jw friends
waking up to reality is harder for some than others....it is nice to know that you are no longer burdened by the fear of Harmageddon
I have to keep reminding myself that every generation thinks they are special and noteworthy. Then they die like the rest.......oh, wait, even the overlapping ones!
You, sir, ROCK!
Good for you!
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I wasn't even aware of most of what you "don't miss" while I was a JW. Now, I look back at the faulty reasoning and the heavy judgmental attitudes, the constant denial of real information, and all else and I do not miss it either. I miss one single person who was my best friend. Our bond forged within the belief system seemed to go beyond that stuff, but alas, it did not. I have made new, more unconditional friends. (I say "more unconditional" because I couldn't sleep with their wife or kill their dog and remain tight friends, but short of that, they don't care if I go to church or vote/not vote along a different thought as them.)
I think the thing I don't miss the most is the ignorance.
Great thread!
The more we miss the "indoctrination sessions" the more we realise just how much we were part of an "abusive relationship"!
Snare & Racket, your name says it all. A famous WTBTS president once said " Religion is a snare and a racket." It takes the leader of such a snare and racket to recognise it. In fact he was the instigator of one policy in particular that you didn't mention, the blood issue.
Many other things I can think of that I don't miss are:
child abuse
disfellowshipping and shunning
rejection of anyone who can no longer do what they used to do
confusion over the blood issue
lack of compassion for mental illness
children being baptised and then later DFd
over use of chaperones for courting
unable to question anything or even express an opinion
justifying yourself to judicial committees
conditional friendships
And so on, and so on, and so on.
