Does anybody feel like if not for the Internet we could have still been in (page 2)

stillajwexelder

Crisis of Conscience was the big nail in the coffin IMHO - triggered arguably by 607 research by C .O Jonnson. The Bethel purge in the early 1980s then follwoed. The internet and World Wide Web has accelearted the process but it was not the initiator of the mass droves leaving the organization

Namasti

I left long before the net--left the hard way. With no one to talk with and having to start a whole new world for myself out here all alone. How scary that was way back then. There was no thought then that the Org was ever going down, but now with all this exposure, it could be a real possiblility but at this point, it's just a great fantasy for me--that one day the Org won't be and I'll have my whole family back. Don't think that's going to happen in my life time, but thanks for the nice fantasy.

Junction-Guy

I left the JW's approximately 4 years before I came online, I always had my doubts about it, and even displayed so called "apostate" thinking way back then, but I still in the back of my mind believed it might be the "Truth", I could'nt move forward with my life because of this. I was stuck in the middle, wanting to survive armageddon, but on the same token I wanted a normal life. I really was confused and confounded. I married way too quickly in an attempt to have a normal life before I was possibly destroyed. My life had suffered immensely because of their lies, not only mine, but Amanda's too in an indirect way. If it were'nt for the internet I would still be considered just another XJW who still believed it was the truth, now I know different. I always felt rushe through life due to their lying 1914 generation doctrine, I felt like I had to hurry up and experience some things, and to refuse other things because of time constraints. Im very much thankful the internet exposed this to me, but it still doesnt lessen the pain I suffered for years under this Cult. I wish no child would ever have to go through a JW upbringing again, and so I do whatever I can to help expose and eventually topple this family wrecking, child destroying cult.

Dave

Kudra

I like science, evolution, going to school, doing art, being a wino, politics, hanging out with non-witnesses and sex-out-of-wedlock too much. THOSE are the things that made me decide not to be a witness.

All of that was totally aside from all the "apostate" stuff like 607/UN/Mexico/Malawi/flip-flops/lack-of-love that have been the primary information I have gotten from the internet on the dubs.

-Happy Kudra

BabaYaga

Not me, Baby, I'm a "pre-Google exit". I was out for almost twenty years before I found this site... and even then I wasn't looking... it popped up as a search result to something completely non-JW related.

Oh, but it is such a powerful force... and I hope it continues to pluck precious fruits from the WT tree...

Baba

buriram

Dont give the net too much credit, I came out after listening to a Radio prog about cults!

That was in 92

heathen

I think without the web I would be in the dark plenty , I wasn't a dubby, but felt there was something honest and upright about the religion so may have believed their lies . All I needed was some evidence of their treachery , especially the UN deal , it all made sense why they demonized the web , they didn't want it getting out that they were an NGO and signed a pact with the devil . (we all know their teaching was the UN is satanic) and opposing the kingdom of the heavens by challenging the WTBTS authority .or whatever that profound belief mentioned on tuesday night was .............

AK - Jeff

No doubt about it. Without the internet I would not have ever heard of CoC I suspect.

I feel freer and freer every day - and the internet was a major part of that.

Jeff

Kudra

Would have only heard of CoC from the internets.

But, right before I left my hometown for college i was starting to talk to the ...apostates! They always came into the bakery I worked at. Of course that's where the car groups went for break too!

So exciting!

-K

sass_my_frass

I'm a living example of that outcome... I was trying to get reinstated when I let go of my fear of JW internet info. If I hadn't done that, I would probably still be trying.

Does anybody feel like if not for the Internet we could have still been in

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