What Factors led you to Write your Letter of Disassociation? (page 2)

PrimateDave

I just didn't want to pretend to be a Jehovah's Witness anymore. I got to the point that I knew it wasn't the TRUTH, so why waste time at boring meetings and in uncomfortable clothes preaching to people who could care less anyway. Besides, it wasn't like I believed what I was preaching anymore. I was tired of the theocratic treadmill, my book study conductor always 'suggesting' I go in service more often, asking why I had missed a meeting.

So, I wrote my family a letter saying that I was DAing myself. I told the PO I was DAing myself, but I haven't sent a letter. I also told the PO that I didn't want to discuss my reasons for leaving. I just wanted peace. The fault lay with the WTS, not the people in the local congregation. No point in arguing, really. And that's what I said to my family. I'm out, and I just don't want to argue about it. When pressed by my family for some idea as to why I did this, I did give them a list of reading materials, but I know they won't read any of it. That's okay, because they are still willing to communicate with me, so I'm not cut off from them, which was my biggest fear of DAing myself. I lost my friends in the congregation, but at least I still have some family ties.

Dave

Honesty

I didn't write a letter.

I just called Brooklyn up and told them, "I QUIT." Then I called the PO in my hall and told him the same.

AuldSoul

the wanderer,

I have answered similar question differently in the past, but Arthur recently helped me to frame a more accurate response.

I considered leaving because of the nonresponses offered by the WTS and its agents as answers to valid concerns and Scriptural questions. I disassociated myself because my family would have never left me alone until the elders had disfellowshipped me for "apostasy," which I discovered actually means "genuine expressions of heartfelt dismay, unrest, or anger over nonresponsiveness."

I am not sure what style my DA letter was written in. I never even thought about it. Perhaps others could judge that better for themselves.

http://watchtowerwhy.home.mchsi.com/to.htm

Respectfully,
AuldSoul

GermanXJW

I had moved and was literally under the radar of the WT. But I felt like running away. On the other hand, the WT was fighting for a legal status and blew the number of their members. They gave a much higher number than the number of publishers. I guessed I was included I did not want to be part of their propaganda. So, I wrote a legal letter not being a member any more. (In detail I wrote that I never stated to be a member of their new founded legal corp. all German JW were suddenly members of.)

Lo-ru-hamah

AkJeff,

I just finished reading your disassociation letter and wanted to comment on what an astounding job you did. I hope that when I am able to write mine it will be as compelling as yours. Bravo.

Loruhamah

IronClaw

For me it was the Mexico/Malawi double standard the Society had in the 70's. After reading Ray Franz's Crisis of Conscience , I started researching more and more. Was in the process of writing a DA letter when 2 elders cornered me at a local gas station. After some bullshit talk, I told them both to go Fu-k themselves and was DF'd about a month and a half later. I came to find out that I had actually DA'd myself when I told those two elders I wanted nothing more to do with the WTS.

The Claw.

dido

I wish i could have the opportunity to d/a myself, but i`m afraid they got there first. If i knew then what i do now, i would have d/a`d years ago. It would have given me personal satisfaction to say to them that i didn`t want to be part of them, and their `sins`. I think that scripture applies more to them than to Babylon the Great! I got d/f because i could not live up to their unnatural expectations of human beings, but it was the best thing that could have happened, to free me from their clutches.

Kaput

Primarily the UN scandal, which led to further research and the realization that this was not, had never been, and will never be "the truth".

Finally-Free

There are a lot of fundamentalist faders on this site that oppose all DA'ing but I think it just depends on what your life situation is.

I agree. Whatever course a person takes should serve his or her own purpose. As long as that is the case no one can say "you've played by watchtower rules" or that the watchtower "controls" you. Writing a letter is no more evidence of watchtower control than fading is of cowardice.

My own letter was written to advise the elders that any more attempts to contact me would be viewed as harassment, and that tresspassing on my property would result in prosecution. The letter and registration receipt serve as evidence in case I should ever see the need to prosecute for trespassing or harassment. They can't say they didn't know.

W

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