by JW_Researcher 18 Replies latest watchtower bible
It took 9 months from the first study until I was baptised. It took over 14 years to escape.
It took less than 10 minutes for me to accept Jesus. I was baptised as a Christian a month later.
If I had researched what the JW's were all about instead of allowing myself to be gradually indoctrinated I would have never joined their cult.
The fear of leaving is greater than the pain of staying.
So true.
This is interesting. I do think I was predisposed to being a JW. Overly idealistic, battered a bit by events in my life, insecure, wanting concrete answers to things that there are no concrete answers for. I was ripe for the plucking. Not that I was an especially easy convert. I "studied" for three years on and off. But it seemed inevitible that I would become a witnoid. I actively participated in my own brainwashing and indoctrination. I wanted to believe it was "the truth" so very much.
Getting friendly with the witnesses so the peer pressure from inside the congregation is greater than from those outside. This will eventually cause some students to participate in FS - something they probably never thought they would do. Once that point is reached - I think there is a good chance they will continue on to get baptized.
for some, like me, makes u feel like u r a part of something....u feel important, ppl are nice, u almost immediately have lots of friends.....i can honestly say that a few were truly my friends, even trying to contact me for sheer conversation after i left
my mom says that the organization is for those who have severe emotional problems....i used to disagree even as a df'd person, but now i seem to be agreeing more and more with her
I was hooked once I'd been to a dew meetings, and enjoyed all the love bombing. I had a boyfriend at the time who didn't share my enthusiasm, so I broke with him and also had to break a smoking habit, which was difficult, before I got baptised, so I associated for almost 2 years before I became a fully - fledged jw, but there wasn't much doubt in my mind I wanted to be one after the first couple of months.
I have known people who came in very quickly, and some that took longer than me. I suppose it depends how susceptible you are to being brainwashed.
A thousand apologies for hijacking but this just came up on the news wire high ranked and it has a provision for you to speak out and add your comments
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Thank you for the thoughtful replies.
It's hard to tell because different people react in different ways and have different expectations from membership with the dubs, what is certain is that the JW spirit works in a very insidious way and begins to clutch on the depths of the spirit after only a few meetings with the dubs and totally unperceived.
They no doubt carry in them powerful, destructive satanic energies that operate according to the principle "charm and harm".
