Not to be demoralizing but who has the record for length of time in the WT? (page 3)

I started going to meetings spasmodically in 1954 and my last meeting was August of 2006--that's 52 years. I was slowly fading for about the last 7 of those years, however. Clyde quite going before I did, but he started attending with his mother about 1952.

ferret

42 long years

ex-nj-jw

Born into it, baptized at 13 out at 18 - i think I got unscathed compared to most!

n j

Seeker4

I was baptized in 1963 when I was 11. Started fading in 1995 or so, and out for good by 1998. So I guess around 35 years. I was super active - elder, Pioneer off and on, Assembly Overseer, Pioneer School Instructor, etc. for 30 years.

Glad to be out. I wonder if I'd given that same intense focus to my writing career, where I'd be now...

S4

restrangled

My Grandmother got the "truth" in her 20's; and raised 5 kids in, (before the great depression)... the oldest couldn't stand it and signed up for WW2 getting injured in Pelielu and survived.

(So my grandmother must have been hooked in the mid 1920's).....My mother was born in 1932.

1 uncle decided he was of the anointed (never married and no kids), 2 served in Bethel, and 2 served in prison. 3 of the 5 kids, raised their children in the "truth". offspring out of the 3rd generation (19) kids are "out".

So Rutherford was alive when my mom was in and she remembers walking the streets with placards (Religion is a snare and a Racket) There are untold grand kids, most out.

My generation never had the shots required, forms were filled in and lied about. I have never had a small pox shot, whooping cough, or polio.

All based on Rutherford's blatherings.

I have a very interesting history written by my mother, but I don't dare post it as it would give our entire family away.

r.

yesidid

Father baptized 1914

I was born in 1938 out 2002 = 64

Baptized 1948 out 2002 = 54

wannaexit

35 years

DeusMauzzim

Born into it

Baptized at 16

Out at 19

Minimum Years Record

- Deus Mauzzim

LennyinBluemont

Publisher - 1973

Baptized - 1974

Last Meeting - February 2001

Years baptized - 27

It's amazing how many of us sacrificed literally the prime years of our life. Like S4 and many others here, I was extremely active as a JW. I remember when I resigned as an elder in May of 2000, a good friend commented, "Well, you can take satisfaction in the fact that you gave your best years to Jehovah by serving as an elder." Of course, now he won't even talk to me. I guess part of the reason many of us are here is to try and gain some understanding, or find meaning in what amounts to an almost incomprehensible loss of decades of our lives. To know there are so many of us who have lost so much is profoundly sad. Sometimes it reminds me of the movie, "Awakenings", except we don't have to go back to sleep! Oops, forgot this isn't supposed to be demoralizing. Well, too late for that, I guess.

Not to be demoralizing but who has the record for length of time in the WT?

R.F.

Bonnie_Clyde