As a dub, were the days you doubted it was the truth, maybe even for a split second?
I remember, i was always thinking about something related to that, wondering 'what if its not the truth'.
Hiding from the reality
by KW13 17 Replies latest jw friends
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TweetieBird
Never...until my dad put that doubt into my head. Still took me several years and his death to face that doubt head-on.
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fullofdoubtnow
Apart from some things I wasn't too sure about while I was studying, I had no doubts about it being the truth for many years, and when a few questions finally came into my nind I dismissed them at first, before I finally had to address them.
Once I did, it wasn't long before I left the jws.
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plmkrzy
As a dub, were the days you doubted it was the truth, maybe even for a split second?
no
There were often times though that I doubted the gbs intelligence, if you can make since of that.
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ButtLight
No, never. Not until just in the past 2 years, I started doubting.
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KW13
wow, what a poor dub i was lol...there was i dunno, almost a fantasy - imagine IF the truth wasn't the truth, then i'd laugh at the sheer insanity of the idea.
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done4good
I would say the "seeds" of doubt were planted years ago, but I never really doubted until recently. When that fianlly happened, I began to research, and it did not take long for the tower to fall after that.
-No pun intended.
j
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KW13
I would say the "seeds" of doubt were planted years ago, but I never really doubted until recently. When that fianlly happened, I began to research, and it did not take long for the tower to fall after that.
-No pun intended.
j
yeh i found nothing really stood to close scrutiny (nice pun )
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troubled mind
I always had doubts even as a child . I think it was because my unbelieving father and grandfather would say things to me like : don't believe everything you read , witnesses are commies , anything that sounds to good to be true is. As an adult I tried really hard to push the doubts away . I was in a constant struggle with in myself and thought I must be the most unfaithful person .
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Seeker4
I had LOTS of questions, but I put them out of my thoughts as best I could. I was very much one of those "I'll wait on Jehovah to eventually answer these questions" type of JW.
Once I decided to investigate those questions, the seeds of doubt were really already deeply planted.
I'd come up with a simple test. Could I find proof beyond any reasonable doubt that there were humans on earth more than 6031 years ago, and could I also find proof that animals were eating one another more than 4500 years ago, or the supposed time of the Noachian Flood?
I proved both things to myself rather easily, and then it was just a matter of getting out - which took incredible courage, as it involved losing essentially all of my friends.
S4