Enigma wrote:

Thank you very much Liezel RD. This site is great, ive just come from JWD where ive found it a great help on the long road to recovery ,even after eight years of being outof the ' untruth' ! XXimage
Welcome aboard Enigma.

At first when I left, I was too stoned and drunk most of the time to even care about them. But I still felt feelings of guilt and hellfire whenever I would see them.

Fast forward to now....I haven't had a theological discussion with them for quite a long time now. Occasionaly my mom, but the last one was that I really didn't believe in the bible at all, so there's no use discussing religion, who's right, who's wrong, etc. These day's I feel more pity for them than I used to. This came home to me more recently as my coworker is a JW, and is so antisocical, anticoworker that no one likes him, even though he's smart as einstien. I feel pity for him, but on the other hand, with him and all others, I'm calloused. They are grown adults, they've made up their mind to be miserable, it's their own fault, so why should I feel pity on them? I've come to believe you can only be brainwashed if you allow yourself to be brainwashed. And if a person continues to be a borg and it makes them happy, good for them, just don't preach to me. Kinda like my feelings toward gay people, do what you wanna do, it's your business, but don't start telling me how I should be, or how life is so much better on their side, etc. Don't think I'm bashing gay's, but I've come across a few who considered me a hater because I didn't accept their advances, just like I've been considered a hater for not going with the JW's.

But there are a few who I've just turned my nose up at.

A few I say hi too. But nothing else.