8, 10
Poll - on a scale of one to ten...
by slimboyfat 47 Replies latest jw friends
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blondie
until 1974--10
After that it was more like 7
Imagine being disillusioned before 1975............I knew the end was not coming in 1975 because so many JWs thought it was...at a time you think it not
Blondie
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nowisee
10-10
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Wordly Andre
Dams,
I think you & I were born Worldly he he he
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TweetieBird
10
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AlmostAtheist
Certainly interesting how "almost" atheist and "fullofdoubt" now have always been certain in their convictions - in both directions...
It's funny you'd mention that, it struck me as I was typing it how strange is to go from 100% convinced of one thing, to 100% convinced of its opposite in such a short time. It's scary, really, to know I can be tossed from one extreme to another like that. The only explanation I can offer is that faith is powerful, and at the time I had absolute faith in Jehovah, as I knew him thru the Watchtower. Once I abandoned faith, reality was standing there looking at me. Once you know how the trick is done, you become 100% convinced that it isn't magic.
Still scary though.
Dave
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slimboyfat
bttt for newbies
And what happened to AlmostAtheist?
Slim
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BizzyBee
Convinced they had the truth - 10 (I was also a child, uneducated, isolated from outside knowledge, not allowed to read other material, and brainwashed)
Convinced they do not have the truth - 10 (Mature adult with real-life experience, educated, read voraciously anything I want, brain is dry-cleaned now) The burden of proof should have been on the WTS - but they stacked the deck by means of intimidation, isolation, coersion, cult tactics, outright lies and blackmail.