Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 16:36:46 GMT -5
When I first went into that work, I often said they either should have given me a sign to hang around my neck, or tattoo it on my chest that I could show when answering questions that simply stated "I don't know!" This was because I would be asked so many questions for which I simply had no answers. On occasion this is still the case, however regarding 2&2istic ministry doctrine and history I have found no need to practice revisionist history, nor claim any longer I do not know.
Whereas I am indeed forth generation indoctrinated child of family first generation believers on both sides of my large family, that indoctrination has completely failed to preserve me in it. I have been companions with first generation workers, and have visited with and known a number more. They had no reason to practice revisionist history which I do see influencing some and their beliefs today. It does not concern me, for I know what certain ones from that fist generation shared with me as I visited with them.
When I was in that work, I had two companions who were known Lotharios who leaving that work soon married and "settled down" to the relief of many. I knew of one man who was attracted to boys, but who was confronted, and soon also married and apparently overcame previous tendencies.
Upon leaving that work! I became aware of others, highly praised to their death, passing from woman to woman like a bee passes from flower to flower. Thus, after leaving that work it was no longer "I don"t know," rather, "I'm not to talk about it." Even today I am made to feel as if that is the course some would have me follow. Nonetheless, I now have no wish to cause anyone harm and am totally out of "the loop." When I witness people in this forum posting from positions of wishful truthfulness, as opposed to factual truthfulness, it is my practice as best I am able not to call them on it, remembering when I once also believed that such was sufficient. Too soon old, too late wise.
Whereas I am indeed forth generation indoctrinated child of family first generation believers on both sides of my large family, that indoctrination has completely failed to preserve me in it. I have been companions with first generation workers, and have visited with and known a number more. They had no reason to practice revisionist history which I do see influencing some and their beliefs today. It does not concern me, for I know what certain ones from that fist generation shared with me as I visited with them.
When I was in that work, I had two companions who were known Lotharios who leaving that work soon married and "settled down" to the relief of many. I knew of one man who was attracted to boys, but who was confronted, and soon also married and apparently overcame previous tendencies.
Upon leaving that work! I became aware of others, highly praised to their death, passing from woman to woman like a bee passes from flower to flower. Thus, after leaving that work it was no longer "I don"t know," rather, "I'm not to talk about it." Even today I am made to feel as if that is the course some would have me follow. Nonetheless, I now have no wish to cause anyone harm and am totally out of "the loop." When I witness people in this forum posting from positions of wishful truthfulness, as opposed to factual truthfulness, it is my practice as best I am able not to call them on it, remembering when I once also believed that such was sufficient. Too soon old, too late wise.