Ever notice how interested worldly friends were to hear you'd left...zzzzzz (page 3)

Gregor

Talking to a worldly person about having once being in the witnesses is a lot like telling them you spent time in prison. Just embarassing. Unnecessary also, as they perceive the witnesses to be just another religion. That's about it in a nutshell. But I had to get into a few awkward conversations to realize it.

loosie

My friends were happy to hear that I left. :-)

I started giving them birthday gifts...lol

LisaRose

I told a co-worker I used to be a JW. She told someone else I used to be Amish. I laughed my A-- off when I heard about it. BIG deal to me, no big deal to anyone else.

Junction-Guy

I have warned everyone at work about the JW's and by far most have been understanding, a few couldnt grasp what I was trying to convey.

My cousin gets very emotional when we talk about JW issues, she hates the fact that this cult nearly destroyed my life. She says that there needs to be more picketers outside of kingdom halls to warn people about this cult.

themonster123

Yeah, being a Witness my whole life was the cornerstone of my personality!! Now that I'm not a Witness, I've lost a LOT of my identity, and it's like I have to start fresh again. Being a witness (when you believe it) is in your heart, your soul (even though we ARE a soul-lol), your entire being. Your Life IS being a Witness. And to realize it's all a farce after all, then you based your life-so-far on a farce and you didn't even know it, and now...what? What do you believe? What has meaning? What's right and wrong? Everything turns from black and white to a murky gray and it's a nothing-ness that is hard for a worldly person to wrap their head around, but IDENTITY is a huge thing. But it's never too late to start over.

RichieRich

All my friends know, and they all think my story is really interesting.

Now of course, I don't exactly have a standard exit story to tell... mine does have some cool plot twists,

but my friends always introduce me as "This is Richard. Ask him how he took down Jehovah."

It gets alot of sympathy from the ladies, of course...

whyizit

That is because they don't "get" it. They simply do not realize the magnificence of it all, UNLESS they have a family member that they are hoping will one day leave.

For one thing, most people would see it as leaving a church denomination. When we left the Baptist church to join a non-denominational church, no one thought much about it. Including us. We still visit our Baptist friends, etc... No biggie!

If people understood more about the WTS, THEN they would be more interested. But most people have no idea. They just think it is another denomination of Christianity. If you decide to leave, the you'll find some place else. They don't see it as the true accomplishment it is, because they don't know anything about it.

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW YOUR STORY!!!!!!

And I know others who would too. But we are the ones who have loved ones that are in the WTS, and we want to know everything about coming out of it.

undercover

To acquaintances and people I knew but wasn't close to and workmates, if the subject came up for whatever reason, they didn't seem to care. It was like, "big deal".

But for people that I or me and my wife became friends with, then they were quite interested in why I no longer wanted any part of the JWs. I was the one that tried to shrug it off as just a minor thing, but they seemed to sense that this was a major thing in our life and really wanted to understand what made me make such a big change. I was touched that they cared enough to want to understand but yet irritated because I really wanted to be friends with them without the JW baggage.

Ever notice how interested worldly friends were to hear you'd left...zzzzzz

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