Were YOU A Mindless Witness?

by minimus 31 Replies latest jw friends

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow
    Were YOU A Mindless Witness?

    For most of ny time as a jw, yes I was.

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  • daystar
    daystar

    I was born in the truth and I am still amazed at my LACK of Bible knowledge!!! I studied for all the meetings, gave talks, and went out in the preaching work and I wonder where all my knowledge went! I must have just been going through the motions.

    Ditto for me, woofer! Now, I just don't care to have much "bible knowledge". I'd rather read the dictionary.

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  • Forscher
    Forscher

    Well, lets see...

    I seem to recall the word being put around in my first congregation that I was a "fighter against Jehovah." I also remember a circuit oveseer being told basically the same thing when he objected to some lies written about me in a letter to the Society, that was enough for the lies to remain (ironically though, I've never been difellowshipped). So what do you think?

    Forscher

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  • minimus
    minimus

    Obviously, we here aren't "mindless". There comes a time when every soon to be "apostate" wises up and realizes the truth about "The Truth". Thankfully, we can start enjoying "normal" aka "worldly" things for the first time.

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  • GermanXJW
    GermanXJW

    I was not mindless but following men in autority for a long time - because they surely knew better...

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  • SirNose586
    SirNose586
    I was not mindless but following men in autority for a long time - because they surely knew better...

    Same here. I figured, "There are some unanswered doubts I have about this religion, but I guess I shouldn't worry because there are these anointed brothers and sisters, and you can't fake that." Once I dismantled all the claims to authority the Borg had, I got my mind back, and now I question what I can without raising too much suspicion.

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  • garybuss
    garybuss

    I was a COW, Child Of Witnesses, I accepted Witness claims just as unquestioningly as I accepted my own name and the identity of my parents.

    I stayed a Witness supporter in spite of the Witness people as long as I could. The fiasco of 1975, and the disrespect I took from the Witness people before that mess did me in for keeps.

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  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once

    I was in denial. I knew something wasn't right but wanted it to be so bad that I stuck with it since I wasn't offered any viable alternatives. Little did I know that they were only deemed non viable by me due to the indoctrination of the Faceful and Excrete Salve.

    Now I knows betterer.

    W.Once

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  • greendawn
    greendawn

    No that's why I became inactive after only a year. I was a good dub and was doing everything correctly yet I could not see any of the promised love after leaving the world to find many brothers and sisters in the org. I gave them enough time they didn't respond and I gave up.

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  • Lady Lee
    Lady Lee
    Were YOU A Mindless Witness?

    Absolutely.

    Growing up in a physically, emotionally and sexually abusive home taught me about the penalty for lack of obedience. When my mother joined the JWs it only gave ":God's/WTS" stamp of approval for controlling women and children and that dissent would be dealt with harshly.

    I had been so conditioned by the previous abuse that once I was a JW, I stuffed doubts and questions down so deep it took 10 years to finally begin thinking again

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