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Old 08-19-2024, 05:53 PM   #20
PriestlyScribe
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Default Re: Greetings from an LC member!

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Originally Posted by Trusting- View Post
To be frank, I really tried my best to follow their teaching, join all the conferences and meetings and connect with the saints, but all it's left me in is in a state of depression, fear and guilt. Maybe I did something wrong...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Makes perfect sense to me - you did nothing wrong, neither are you crazy!

How you described your uncertain journey in the LC leads me to believe that you already ARE a Genuine Normal Christian - but you have been trapped behind enemy lines.

Having spent 35 years in the LC starting in 1974 I had need of a lot of self de-programming and un-spiritualizing of my earthly life. One thing that seemed to help me the most was to examine how other high control groups conducted business in the name of God or Christ.

The JW organization shares many painful similarities with the LC but uses completely different proprietary jargon, and that helped me to spot areas within me which deserved emancipation.

I would recommend you watch a recent documentary exposing JW abuse here:

Rebekan Vardy "Jehovah's Witnesses and Me"
https://archive.org/details/rebekah-...ses-and-me-web

Another new resource that I would highly recommend is the blog by Ruth Wise - https://www.inconvenientruth.com/

You seem to be on a very good path to emancipation - keep pressing forward as you sense the strength to do so. There are also countless helpful voices here on the forum so please stick around...

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