Born in as 3rd generation.
What Ever Possessed You To Become A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends
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seek2find
A Lot of us 3rd gen people.Huh?
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Dagney
Born in. Parents baptised 1938. You know i have ALWAYS throught if a JW came to my door, and I was a non JW, I would NEVER believe that load of c**p. So I always wondered "why oh why oh why" did my parents.
Now, I do think my mom has an addictive personality...not to food or liquor...but she does to the JW. It is crazy...she never developed any interests outside the JW, no hobbies, no talents. Everything centered around the organization. Even now, in her 90's, it is nuts. She is anti-social in the nursing homes, except when she can preach. It is very off balance. She is "so excited" to study the Rev book. (**sigh**) Lucky me.
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Blueblades
My sons were born into it. They don't blame me for losing their childhood. They understand that I was looking out for their future. They were smarter than me and got out while they were still young enough, early twenties, to make a future for themselves. Now they don't belong to any religious afffiliation. They lead happy lives with many friends and have soundness of mind.
Blueblades
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love2Bworldly
I think the keyword in the title is "Possessed".
Evil spirits must have possessed my mind to believe that load of crap.
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jaguarbass
I was born into it. Blame my mother. 1975 caused me to take it seriously for a few years.
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choosing life
I was young and expecting my first child. I had been living a pretty wild life and knew I had to settle down now. Along came the jws with all the answers to life's questions. And they promised that I would never have to grow old or die. My child would never even have to go to school in this "wicked world".
Then there was the love bombing. You would have thought we were the most important people to the ones we studied with, me and my husband. Not. Dropped shortly after baptism. I never believed in hell or going to war, so that helped their cause.
When I realize how impressionable and naive I was at 19, I really cringe at the poor kids getting baptized at even younger ages today. You just don't know what you want or need from life at that age. That is why they prey on the young. It's not because the older ones are too set in their ways, it's because they are more mature and experienced in real life.
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I quit!
I will also have to go with the temporary insanity defense. I was young and trying to change my lifestlye. I was looking for friends who weren't getting wasted all the time and knock knock who do you think came by and love bombed me? No need to mention it but I will anyway. All the love bombs were defused and removed the minute I said I no longer believed it was the "truth". You've never seen such a hasty retreat. Well, you probably have.
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puck
born into it -- third generation, like so many others.
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lurker
Like so many of you I was born into it, third generation. Now at nearly 60 I am seeing them for what they really are. Wrong about most everything! But as a kid you want to please your parents and make them happy with you. So you comment at the meetings, you pioneer after high school, then you marry a witness girl. Then you get made an elder, then you spend 35 years as one and before you know it your life is almost over and you have no children because armageddon is right around the corner. What a life! I have promised myself that I will not live the rest of my life in slavery to man. Oh well I feel better just had to rant for a little while.