Posted by SpudMama [SpudMama] on April 04, 1999 at 21:16:22 {th2VaRoznYL0C/6bPTbUPGEmg6dhnA}:
In Reply to: *Missing the Cong. posted by Tap on April 04, 1999 at 12:53:47:
That Agnostic Person wrote:
For me, instead of looking at "good times" I may have had, I look at what I and others would have been without the organization.
Well, um. It's a tossup. I became a JW because I needed a place where I felt safe. It worked pretty well, for a while.
If I hadn't been a Witness, I could have been a sterling, upstanding liberal politician, or a famous character actress, or an honest guru --
Or a mental patient. Take your pick.
Miserable as I was my last 15 years as a JW, and as essential as it was for me to leave, I can see that it bought me valuable time. At first. Nevertheless, I would have been better off today if I had left about 15 years before I did. I'm not sure that I would have been better off if I had never joined at all.
Spud Mama