by truthseeker 12 Replies latest jw friends
I sometimes think about what would have happened if the Web hadn't been invented yet. What would I have done?
Would I have ever learnt the truth about "the truth"?
Have you ever wondered this?
Personally, I would have been of the "where else can we go" crowd, and despite being thoroughly miserable with the "troof" I would have stuck with it.
Nope, I would still be "waiting on Jehovah".
I would be very very stressed and miserable by these restrictions too.
Reformist hate, hate, hate clampdowns!
I would never have known the truth about the "truth'. I have the internet to thank for that, and it shows why the WTS hates the internet.
The scales on my eyes fell off in 1987, before I was really on the internet. But I thought I was the only underground dub in the whole organization!! It really would have helped me adapt if I had been part of a community. I felt so incredibly, unbelievably alone.
I would have still been out, but far more bitter. I wouldn't have found out that what I thought was just some local elder problems was actually worldwide, and a sign of systemic failure.
Well truthfully, no different.
In about 1993 my sister sent me some 'apostate' literature to tell me about the 'truth' ... I remember a couple of articles in particular about the Society's not so truthful past about dealing with black JWs. At the time, I barely read it. Later, many years later, like 7 or 8, after I had already left the JW, I saw those same articles online.
When I came across them again, I read them with much greater interest but I had already left, due to how the JW organization treats human beings, not doctrinal issues.
I suspect you will get two different answers; some the same as mine. Others, who left because of doctrinal issues they found out about while researching on the internet.
There's no doubt how much a role the net has played in their leaving the 'truth.'
No internet? For someone who has no life, that's unthinkable. Probably still be DFed for smoking and caring that I was. And having a lot of sex.
I would have still Da'd but would be living in fear that any day Armagedon would come, praise the internet :-)
Uneducated,uninsured, trailer living, bucktoothed, childless, meeting going, door thumping, talk giving, assembly going, submissive fool!
I effectively walked out in 2005 (though the process began in 1996) because I got tired of their telling me to just meet men (no Internet needed for that). I realized that, if all I was ever going to get was other men, that I would be miserable in the New Dark Ages anyways and would be better off out. And I did not have Internet access at the time I joined the "secret" society that the washtowel was warning me against.
It was that "secret" society that suggested that I get a computer, if only so I could have independent sources to verify things and more fully integrate my thinking. And it was only then that I went and ordered one, and got online. After it was too late for the witlesses.
However, I would not have had the opportunity to get others to stumble out of it.
