Member: Elsewhere

Elsewhere

Joined: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:09:00 GMT

Location: United States Texas

Post Count: 18296

Year of Birth: 1972

Biography: I was a 3rd generation JW. Basically my entire family and all of my friends were JWs. I DAed myself because I just didn't believe it. I could no longer fake my faith? I could not live a lie.

Result: I am shunned by my entire family and everyone I grew up knowing.

I wasted about four years of my life trying to be nice and win them over so they would not shun me... it was a waste of time and heart ache. I eventually became resolved to the fact they will never be a part of my life again and wrote them off as lost to a cult.

Over the years I have built a new "family" and new friendships.

When I was a kid and my grandfather died they had to divide up the estate. In the process it came to my attention that my grandfather had another son by a previous marriage before he was a JW. All my life I had an uncle that I was never told about, a whole other branch of my family that was ignored and hidden from everyone. I was shocked and horrified that a family could do such a thing.

I am now destined to be that hidden family member, hidden from view, treated as though I don't even exist. This is what I have had to come to terms with.


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Hey WTS.... these fingers are for you! .!..<0_o> ..!.
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"I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do".—D. Dale Gulledge