---Read by Hyghlandyr
Cygnus
This post made me really glad that I am going back and reading the threads you have started. Amen to the all of the above.
Like you I havent really been hurt by the JWs. Or their policies. My sisters were no doubt about it. That is really the only pain I have suffered from them.
As to other issues I had with them, well I've pretty much run into the same thing in any group dynamic I have been involved with. Humans are goofy. What can I say.
I went through a period where I was pissed because I had been lied to. Oh well. I've lied in the past. I decided not to hold them to a stricter standard than I hold myself. I think most here do just that. They glee at the mistakes of the watchtower society, and do not even research the history of their own system. Christians are a good example of this.
Personally I feel the witnesses have had their time as a fringe religion. Each group is given about a hundred years to hold such an honor. Now it is time they moved into the mainstream. They are resisting as all the others have done, because that will make them passe. I dont actually know what passe means, but it seemed the right thing to say. So kicking and screaming into the mainstream they will go. It is a matter of economics and surival. With more than six million active members and ten million or more inactive, there simpy is no other choice.
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To the others who tried to change the thread from one topic to another and didnt really pay much attention to what you said:
Well fellas I can't speak for ole Cyg, but ole Hygh here believes that when you die, you are pretty much dead. That's why we call it death. You return to The Great Nothing. All hail The Great Nothing!