How many left the JW cult after..... (page 2)

Finally-Free

This would have been a problem FF. All the guns would be gone!

Nah, I had a few stashed.

W

AK - Jeff

Would all the guns be gone or would the elders be in control of the guns?

Good point, Blondie! That way they could make sure they were only used for 'theocratic warfare'!

Jeff

Seeker4

Interesting question. Yes, I left after 40 - in my mid-40s actually, about 8 years ago, though I think the whole thing started when I turned 40.

I agree with a couple of the points made. 1. Mid-life for me was when I realized that I was NOT going to live forever. I was, in fact, going to die. After living for so long believing that "living forever is not just a dream," it took some serious thinking to deal with this new perspective and to realize that I would face death just like everyone else. I think that everyone starts to confront their own mortality at mid-age - but for a true-believing Witness of my generation, this is much more traumatic.

Within a couple of years of that I'd stepped down as an elder, and a year or so later, with the 1914 generation change, I really began to research, research, research. Shortly after that I began to seriously fade, and I immediately stopped going house to house.

It wasn't looking back and being dissatisfied with my life - at 40 I'd essentially done everything I'd wanted to in life with the exception of my most consistent dream - writing. I began pursuing a writing career in my 40s, and I've been quite successful at that.

Maybe mid-age is just that time when you have enough experience to see through all the bullshit, and enough confidence to trust yourself about it.

S4

AuldSoul

Became an irregular publisher at 32 and an inactive publisher by this past May. Became DA'd...will become DA'd this coming weekend. At 33.

AuldSoul

doofdaddy

Yeah midlife

Generation issue, kids grown, unhappy marriage, unhappy with where I was.

Around 40-42

PoppyR

Grand old age of 36... think like a lot here I didn't believe it wasn't the truth, was just SICK of doing it, and thought I was going to die at Armageddon anyway cos I wasn't doing it right, so figured why do it at all! Frustrating thing is that you have to have stepped away significantly before you can start looking at sites like this.. but then again if I looked at a site like this when I was really entrenched I just would not believe it. SUCH a relief whenI finally clicked that it wasn't the truth, but lots of other emotions... like.. maybe I should start looking after myself after all! I might get old!!

poppy x

carla

aww man, this thread is really depressing for a non/never was jw, ubm. Way too many years wasted.

aarque

"I agree with a couple of the points made. 1. Mid-life for me was when I realized that I was NOT going to live forever. I was, in fact, going to die. After living for so long believing that "living forever is not just a dream," it took some serious thinking to deal with this new perspective and to realize that I would face death just like everyone else. I think that everyone starts to confront their own mortality at mid-age - but for a true-believing Witness of my generation, this is much more traumatic."

I agree 100%. I did a slow fade when I was in my late 20's. Just before my 48th birthday, my mom was teasing me about being middle-aged. I looked at her and said, "Mom, I was never supposed to be this old!" She was surprised, but agreed...and had no answers for me. I've really been "confronting my mortality" these past few months...I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February and my dad passed away in May. I can deal with the cancer, but losing Dad absolutely derailed me.

TopHat

I faded in 1999 because so many things told me this was not the truth.

I left it up to Jehovah at that time to decide if I was worthy to be in the new earth or not. I had no idea of the Malawi/Mexico and Pedophile issue untill I found this web site 2 months ago...

Actually the UN issue doesn't bother me. maybe because I didn't see the UN as the Beast at that time. Although it does make the GB hypocrites!

But now I see the WTS as the beast trying to take the place of God.

greendawn

I left (disassociated) in my mid twenties but was inactive since my early 20's. I realised early on that not all was well with this org, there was no real love, and too much spiritual totalitarianism, and emotional terrorism.

How many left the JW cult after.....

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