Do you ever graduate? Hmmm....
I first started coming around here back in 2002. My incarnation then was Bridgette. I finally reached a point that I did not need it. My path was taking me in many different directions: Got remarried to a wonderful man (no ties to the witnesses, only he had a few who'd worked for him in past and knew how crazy and dysfunctional they were---NO, they do not make better employees as the society would have them believe). I moved on professionally, got educated, got into philosophy ala Joseph Campbell....etc. I got busy with life and did not need this.
Then I came back for more (couldn't figure out how to log onto my old account). My brother has gone back to the borg and I miss him...a lot. When we speak now (only occasionally) he is veiled...very veiled. We're no longer making human to human connection which is sad because we were always very very close. He had the funniest sense of humor, too. That's all gone. He never jokes around anymore. We had a constant SNL, Triumph the dog skit going all the time w/each other. I miss him so very much. You see, you guys are the only ones who understand what I am going through. We're a unique bunch, we ex-jw's. It's our own little Scar Clan.
So, I will no doubt get busy again, but I will always return to you, my brothers and sisters in pain, laughter and life. Who else would understand? Also, we need to be here to welcome those who are wandering out of the organization, bruised, broken, almost snuffed out, believing all the lies that those who are out are crazy, cracked out, hedonistic lost souls.
We have to be here to show that there is life (and in abundance) after the Borganization.
Love,
~Brigid