Welcome, from a fellow JW refugee.
JWs certainly don't make life simple.
Sorry to hear about the family situation, though. My sisters had left "the truth" many years ago, and I had built up a network of non-JW friends so that by the time I realized that I was done, it was relatively painless. I have no clue what it would be like to be in your situation, aside from thinking that it would be pretty awful. Hang in there, freedom from insanity is worth it.
(April 22, 2013 at 5:27 pm)Sansbury Wrote: Being a believer would make my life far simpler but truth trumps comfort as far as I'm concerned.
JWs certainly don't make life simple.
Sorry to hear about the family situation, though. My sisters had left "the truth" many years ago, and I had built up a network of non-JW friends so that by the time I realized that I was done, it was relatively painless. I have no clue what it would be like to be in your situation, aside from thinking that it would be pretty awful. Hang in there, freedom from insanity is worth it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
