My grandmother infected my father and he infected my mother and together our parents taught Witnessism to my brother and I as our core beliefs. Our parents like the Witness people and they like being Witnesses, so I guess that'll be their payment for services offered.
The whole thing chapped my ass. It sucked!
The dubs that brought you into the WTS
by greendawn 21 Replies latest watchtower bible
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garybuss
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purplesofa
The lady I studied with changed my life. She is dear to me and I have the deepest respect for her. She was a very good teacher, kind and patient. She came along at a time in my life when I really needed what she had to offer.
A sincere and genuine interest in me, and I hope she got all the time she needed out of me to pioneer.
purps
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blondie
Father - not JW
Mother - intermittent JW
I grew up in a family that had one foot in the "world" and one foot in the "truth." No one studied with me. But the abuse at home made the KH attractive. Like someone who gets married to get away from home, I got baptized hoping that a good relationship with God and Jesus would help me heal. The only problem was that people got between me and them and the God and Jesus they portrayed were not the persons I saw in the bible.
I figure that JWs who do actually study with people are a minority. If they took the time out of their social schedule...I give them some credit. I remember that most JWs are true believers, deceived like I was. Wouldn't it be great for people to tell how ex-JWs helped them out of the "lie"?
Blondie
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return visitor
As a nineteen year old I moved in with a friend of mine's family for the summer, I knew that they were JW's but we had been best friends since I was nine. My first night staying with them his mother told me that her children went to 3 meetings a week and that I could go or stay home we their father who was not a dub. I went, and that's how I learned the truth, no books, no study, just the meetings. That was 26 years ago, in the time since we have continued to be best friends even though we live in different parts of the country. He became inactive years ago but because his and his wifes family are all dubs. I on the other hand became very active, became and elder, and raised my family according to the party line. Now I have come to see the real "truth" about the society. my friend is comming up over the Chrismas Holidays, (not to celibrate them just that is when he got time off) I am hoping to talk to him then and let him know how I feel. He is one dub I feel comfortable talking to about anything. I don't know how DAing myself would dampen our relationship but that is a major concern to me and is one reason i have not.
He will alway be my brother and best friend,
RV
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read good books
The dub that brought my dad in went to Gilead,South America and then came back with bad health, but now is an elder in a Spanish speaking congregation. I think he is was and will always be a JW because his family is in it and his whole life has beem spent on it. He wrecked my childhood, I don't know whether to hate or pity the fool.
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Dismembered
The major player that was responsible for snaring me into into that Witness trap ultimately became an "elder" who's 1st wife ended up being an anorexic, broom closet drinker that went to her grave with that secret at an very young age. When she died, they canonized her at the KH. Even though dubs don't believe in drunkeness & sainthood.
His second wife was DF'd for drunkeness yet he remained so popular amoung the watchtower droves. I remember attending an anniversary party where I was assigned to sit at the table with him and his drunkard wife. I swear they counted the number of drinks my wife & me had at that affair.
Amazingly it took me years to find out that all this shit happened right under my schnozzle.
Suffice it to say he sucks
Dismembered
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zanex
hmmm the dubs that brought me by way of my parents into the religious grip of steel I have mixed feelings for..I havent been around for well over 20 years from that specific congregation and I imagine that they are probably still jw's...i know that they bridged a huge language barrier when they "brought my folks into the fold" hours of bible study done on paper writing back and forth..prayers done on paper and written back and forth...and the 80's werent the best of times for the deaf community...they at the time opened a door with total communication where no other religious communities were...
on the OTHER hand...just because the bait a fisherman uses is tasty doesnt make the idea of biting the hook right. The thing which was created now enables scores of jws to infiltrate the deaf community with ease..and all they have to do is sign...the masses seem to be swallowing it up whole. The lengths the interpreting/deaf/jw community have gone to to ensure that their message of "truth" blow even me away....the "bait" has hooked more fish than I have seen in a long time...sigh..
so what do I think of those who brought me in to all of this...? Geez....it hurts to think about it..I try not to.
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restrangled
My parents indoctrinated me from birth. I had no choice. I had 5 pairs of aunts and uncles in, 2 spent time in Bethel, 2 spent time in prison and were pardoned, 4 out of 6 Uncles became elders, plus almost 30 cousins were raised as I was. One Uncle was of the annointed,
The Oldest Uncle served in WW2 and sent 3 of his sons to Vietnam who trained as Marines. Each of those boys came back but died of exposure to agent Orange.
There are too many details to this family legacy, and I will answer any questions, but this is a 3rd generation ex-witness that can answer many questions.
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dedpoet
The jw that I studied with is now in prison, doing a 7.5 year sentence for sexually abusing his 4 daughters, but is still a jw in good standing, he was repentant, apparently. The jws around here ignore me anyway, though I occasionally speak to them, just to see them squirm, but I'll definitely shun him when he comes out. It sickens me to think that I ever shook hands with him, let alone regarded him as a friend.
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Mulan
The people who studied with my parents were lovely people................about 20 years later, the wife was disfellowshipped, divorce and got married to a Naval officer, and years later got reinstated but never did much again.
When my parents divorced about 10 years after that, the husband married my mother. He was my stepfather for 32 years until he died. He was the best. He was a Gilead graduate (2nd class), Branch overseer in The Netherlands and CO in the U.S., and he spoke to us in the years before his death about how things hadn't gone the way he had thought they would. He didn't understand that either and was always very kind to us after we left. He never acted like we had done anything wrong.