What Ever Possessed You To Become A Jehovah's Witness? (page 4)

minimus

This thread tells me that most of us were "born in the Truth". How many more are ready to get out???

I was listening to a lecture a couple of years ago and the speaker said addiction, whether to alcohol, drugs or religion, stems from "a hole in the heart that needs filling." I filled mine with dub religion and like most addictive substances, it worked great for a while. Then it stopped working and, eventually, after a lot of soul searching, I quit taking it. By then I was almost 30 years older and found I could fill the hole in my heart in ways that did not require toxicity.

free2think

Was born into it. When I was younger I ised to wonder if I wasn't one whether I would have become one or not. Eeven then I used to think I wouldn't, I must have known the troof deep down, but I didn't realise I had a choice.

free2ihink

Poztate

I was raised in it but saw it as a bunch of crap and dropped out at the age of 16. I was not baptised at that time.

Fast forward to the early 70's and the ramping up of Armageddon hysteria for 1975. I was convinced by my family that only a few weeks or months until the big "A" would be happening.

I wonder where they got that idea from.. I got dunked and just snuck in before the deadline. Lucky Me...

Honesty

Sheer Stupidity.

OnTheWayOut

I say this story for self-therapy.
I was a young alcoholic that made a mess of his life. I had trouble at
work, trouble with relations, I wrecked my car, and could have killed the
other people in the other car. I decided I had thoroughly messed up
my life. I put a revolver in my mouth and tried to pull the trigger.

Well, I thought I could do it, but I didn't go through with it. I checked into
the hospital and got some help from a doctor. Eventually, I was enrolled
in an alcohol rehabilitation program as an inpatient and I received more
excellent help. They made me go to AA, but I really didn't like the way
people smoked and drank coffee so much and stayed in their own
pity parties for such a long time. AA was not for me. My mother
is a JW, it was the only religion I was seriously exposed to as a child.
She was DF'ed after 1975, but went back when I was older. I did not
go to the Hall with her. When I told her what I did, she asked local
JW's to call on me.

I already scoffed at Christianity, but I gave this "studying the Bible" thing
a try. I guess I could have been taken in by any cult that approached me
then. Not from any JW's, but from my receiving "help," I convinced myself
that God must have prevented me from pulling the trigger, then made sure
that I got help. If God led me to the JW's, then they must have the truth.

Many years later, I am stable, but realize that my own mind led me to
believe that a higher force prevented me from committing suicide. My mind
allowed me to believe whatever fit best at the time. I now say that there was
no GOD involved in the entire process. I really give him the benefit of the doubt,
because saying he wasn't involved, I don't blame him. Still, now I say if God
wants me to do his will, he will have to contact me, personally, and let me
know what his will is, because I am done with organized religion.

I have shared this with only a handful of people in my life.

wozadummy

A bad ex-wife

yeh that's me

Abandoned

In September, 1987, my wife of around five months started acting weird. I figured that our relationship needed god and so I decided to investigate what was available. While I was studying churches, she was studying one of her co-workers. She found an affair and I found the jw. Damn, she always came out on the better end of the deal.... LOL

So, I guess it was to soothe my troubled heart.

What Ever Possessed You To Become A Jehovah's Witness?