Everyones comments have been so great. The one thing I have found for myself is not going to the meetings has been huge in getting me to break the hold. It is amazing to me to how hypnotic the meetings are. You just do not think of it like that.
I had three pedophiles in the hall I was attending one moved away but the other two with the elders totally blessing were around children and of course the parents were not told. I felt I had to be a the meetings to stop it. To try to snap pictures on my cell phone etc. I have even been demanded by some here on the board to call C.P.S. the police etc. Like I never thought of doing that I have tried all I could do to stop the pedophiles from being around children and still I felt I could do more I have called C.P.S. the police you can only do so much. No one wants to truly hear it inside or outside of the WT world. People do not care that Jehovah Witness send pedophiles to their doors. I do not get it.
I think people are afraid to realize that JW's are a cult. I think it scares the heck of everyone. At lest with the Moonies people felt you had to go to them so they were safe but to realize JW's with the sweet little lady who comes to your door with the nice Bible magazines is a cult member or the nice man with his sweet little girl could be a pedophile selling WT and Awakes is too much for people outside the witness to think about. Evil prevails when good men do nothing. That is what I love about you Flipper and Mrs. Flipper that you go outside of your comfort zone to help. You both are so wonderful.
But I tell you that not being at the meetings is such a total freedom. If I go to just one meeting now for my husband it is amazing how clear you can see and feel the hypnotic way the meetings are run.
I now understand why they stress for you not to mess even just one meeting. It is all for cult control. If you go on vacation your are told demanded to look up a Kingdom Hall where you are at and go to the meetings. My Word you can not take one stupid week off to go away. No you are still demanded to be at the meetings and made to feel bad for not doing it. That is total mind control how can people not see that. We just got back from a vacation and the few JW's that I have run into the very first thing they say to me was how were the meetings where you were at and did you get a chance to go door to door. Oh my God.
I loved of Finally Free were he said as a JW I was socially isolated and always flet like I was on the outside looking in. No matter how hard I tried, I could never really be one of them - en equal. I was often angry at the JW's for going door to door looking for converts they really did not want, expecting us to throw away our lives and loved ones and offer nothing but an emotional vacuum in return.
I loved what Finally Free wrote that is totally how I fee.
I am sorry Flipper for high jacking this thread and putting in about pedophiles but to me that is also part of the cult control. Please forgive me.
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