Comments on: Religion Makes Me Sad

By: Dirt

Dirt — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:05:58 +0000

I just want to say, for all the people who know it’s not the truth but are staying in because of the fear that was programmed into us, that it’s OK out here, after all. I promise. Life will go on when you leave.

A year ago I was turning in my letter to disassociate myself, and even as I did it, I was convinced that my life from that point on would consist of lying in bed alone all day. I mean, after all, outside of the society there’s no life, right? No true friends, no meaningful work, nothing…but I had to turn in my letter because I didn’t believe it. My heart wasn’t in it and I couldn’t live a lie. I worked as a cook in the city and was pretty lonely, realizing that all my “true friends” weren’t going to have anything to do with me.

And now? If I didn’t know better, I’d say I live in the new system. It didn’t take long to find lots of good people to hang around, and with breaking away from the ‘truth’ came the realization that this is my life, and this is all I have, so I’d better do what feels good. I also realized that without the restraints of going to meetings, out in service, and all the rest, I could go anywhere and live whatever lifestyle I wanted. So, now I’m in the Catskill Mountains, on a 160 acre farm. I designed and built my own house, I’m surrounded by wonderful friends and lovers, I have beautiful animals (goats, ducks, a dog) and a self-sufficient lifestyle focused on nature and the earth. Throw in the proverbial ‘white tiger cub’ that every witness boy is raised believing he will have and all the Watchtower’s promises will be fulfilled. Funny I had to break away before I got them.

Of course people will tell you, “No one out there has the answers,” or “Where else will you go?” And you know, they’re right. Nobody has the answers. WELCOME TO LIFE. That doesn’t mean that you can’t find something in yourself or live the life you want, or, hell, maybe even try to make the world a better place instead of damning it all and waiting for God.

Remember - we love you. You don’t deserve to be forced to live a lie out of fear. Life will go on, and it will get better.

By: ricky

ricky — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:06:21 +0000

I had an experience when i wanted to date this girl but she rejected
for another jehovah witness guy and they hang out together . so i stayed away from the kingdom hall every since. she told people she didnt like me so i sucked it up and never attended the kingdom hall.
I just got tired of trying to prove myself to her so that was it.
they use the women to keep you in there they use sex to keep the men atttending the kingdom hall they know that is the mans number one weakness.

By: Rain

Rain — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:27:04 +0000

I am still in the “truth” as in a silent atheist who is finding it harder by the day to be silent. I missed going to the hall today (it’s sunday) and later my mum guilted me about not going. I just wish I could tell her that going to the hall makes me feel empty and hollow inside. I come out depressed, frustrated and in pain. I’m bisexual and the homophobic meetings are really getting to me now Just the thought of going makes me hurt inside. I hate it so much, I hate living this lie. I feel like a puppet. Anyway, my mum making snide comments about going made me feel like self-harming. I’m so tired of pretending. I’m just happy you have this blog up so that I can vent my feelings. I feel so trapped in this religion and feel I have no way out since I will lose everyone I care about by being myself. Why is it so wrong in their eyes? In “God’s” eyes to just be me? It hurts.

By: csilla

csilla — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:06:14 +0000

I belonged to Jehovah Witnesses for more than a decade in the past. I left them due to ethical reasons. I was thinking about while I was reading this article what my beleifs were about Armageddon during the time I was one of the Witnesses.
I never beleived in horrific details, to be honest I didn’t concentrate the date of Armageddon at all. For me, those people in the congregation, who were waiting for Armageddon ‘just around the corner’ by reading in every line, even between the lines in the Watchtower, were very annoying. I didn’t beleive that either just JW will be saved and everybody else will be destroyed. As the time went by, I noticed that not every JW are honest and not all ‘wordly’ people are dishonest. So I fully trusted in God’s judgement in this issue who has right to decide. Those people, who need to face God’s judgement (I mean, which will have a negative outcome),they don’t feel sorry for other people when they ruined others’ life so they will get what they gave.
Because of these reasons I don’t feel myself as a freaking psycho because I used to beleive in JW doctrines.
On the other hand, I found the spirit of the congregation supressive, agressive and generally against Jesus’s teachings. Their leaders ‘wash their hands’and using responsibilities as a showing-off privilege without taking them. As human beings, they are pathetic, live a vegetable-like life in endless emptiness. Honestly, I feel sorry for them. I couldn’t attend to the meeting when I realised these facts because physical symptoms started to develop in my body as a way of protest. Also needed to reconsider my beleifs.

By: hope

hope — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:11:14 +0000

i really enjoyed reading all of this plus the comments.Sad that jehovahs witnesses dont realise they r so pathetic.lol

By: Pigfarm

Pigfarm — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:11:02 +0000

Please tell me 5 things that I can say that will really stump the JWs and even upset them enough to not return next week to my door.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:11:30 +0000

also i think its really fucking sad that people in the kingdom hall would say things like that to so-called worldly people. where is the love in that. those kind of humans are not loving but hateful anyways and i know for damn sure that god doesn’t desire any to be destroyed. better read that bible again i used to go out in service as aunbaptized publisher but lost it to smoking cigarettes and drugs. i’m not sure what i’m gonna do but i love to play guitar and write my own music. i wrote a song called destroy the hate disease out of inspiration do to all the crazy religions. i really am grateful to have read your thoughts on all this. thank you jimmy t.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:02:30 +0000

you know this whole letter or article whatever ya wanna call it, blew my mind because i’ve been thinking about the same things as far as religion as a whole. wow! i was raised catholic, i quit going there back in 1997, i went to a bunch of different churches and now i’m going to the kingdom hall, although never got baptized as one of the jw’s. i feel bigtime thrown off. when you described witnesses being happy at the destruction of millions of people, i have to agree with you, this is extremely scary and quite disturbing as well! a lot of times i feel like the song sober by the group tool. really flipping sad the way people have become that’s why i think music is better than most religions anyway. although i still believe in God, but i don’t think hardly any of us really know i feel extremely lost at times

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:02:30 +0000

By: cheonggon Nam

cheonggon Nam — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:32:42 +0000

I recommend you Zen Buddism of South Korea .
I recommend you a book,The compass of Zen , written by Zen Master Seong-San .