MuleJule
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I am feeling the same need! At first I had the urge to disappear and burn all my bridges, because I felt so disappointed and betrayed. But I am finally adjusting to this altered reality. I've been meditating on how to move forward. It's complicated. How can I share without being branded an apostate? Where do I need to be so can best help the people I know and love? As far as the congregation, I have decided I need to remain "semi-active" and keep my jw relationships on good terms, but I have significantly faded into the background. I'm still around, but not participating or contributing.The more I learn from my new perspective of the scriptures after reading RKs book, articles, videos and many of the discussions on this forum, the more I feel a need to help others to understand these things before or during the fall of the WT. Especially those closest to me, those who are still able to reason and use common sense.
Please share your thoughts, strategies and experience in reasoning with others. Just as we were trained to use the scriptures to reason with people on the outside, we will need to do the same with people on the inside. If not now, in the near future.
I hope that when the time comes, I will be in a position to guide anyone who starts to question things. I decided to pray that I am directed to such ones, because it's not easy to know who they are. Surely there are some who curiously research and think for themselves. They may start seeing same the things that made us "snap out of it." But they have to be ready. Nobody could've said anything to make me question my beliefs until I was ready. I had to hit rock bottom (the GB updates), make the conscious decision to open myself up to outside information, research everything objectively on my own. The information is out there for those yearning to have true understanding. That's how we all ended up here, thank goodness.
I currently feel like the subtle route (asking questions to get them thinking) is the most effective to get the wheels turning and keep them open to discussion. For me, the direct approach was not working out. I tried it with family and they immediately shut it down. Not open to any discussion, too much indoctrination. Also speaking my mind openly would surely lead to me being "dealt with" and hushed.
I would be so grateful for anyone on here to share ideas about how to have subtle conversations without raising too much suspicion.
@Driven I am feeling like you about the meetings. I cannot bring myself to go either. It's a very strong intuition. I may go back eventually, but for now my masked family is going to the masked hall without me. There have been consistently 30-40 zoom connections with 50-70 individuals in attendance via zoom at every one of our meetings. The majority have their cameras off.