An earlier tread shows that some of you did FS after realizing important things. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/166684/1.ashx
But did you pray at the meetings/bookstudy??
That must have been weird???
Pleas tell us.
Did you ever pray at a meeting after realizing it was not the truth?
by Samuel Thorsen 19 Replies latest jw friends
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Witness 007
My prayers were scripted as I was nervous as hell!
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LouBelle
Yes - only one - the theocratic school - to give my last talk **shrug** But I wasn't allowed to do it in the end and ended up walking out of the hall halfway during the meeting.
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jwfacts
No, prayers were the first thing I stopped doing. I then started rejecting some talks that I found too disturbing and eventually stopped giving talks all together.
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oompa
I prayed many times knowing i had strong doubts....that was bad enough.....but i think as my faith tanked...then service....then meetings....then privleges....i probably never was even asked anymore....same reason they stopped giving me parts...(I have TD Diplompa)......they were afraid i would go off on the fds and expose some lies...............oompa
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Honesty
NO.
I quit attending meetings, Field Service, etc. as soon as I realized something just wasn't right with the JW religion.
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Witness 007
I once had to pray for the bookstudy and I had worked a long shift and was dead tired so I said: "Our dear heavenly father Jehovah................sigh.............." I had a total mental blank from being tired, and frankly my dear not giving a Damn! I managed afew "Help the brothers overseas who are suffering....those not here tonight" etc etc.
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funkyderek
Yes I did, I gave a fairly standard generic JW prayer except that I cleverly omitted the name "Jehovah", intending to refer anyone who challenged me to Matthew 6 where Jesus also failed to use the name in a model for how his followers should pray.
But nobody noticed. Same thing happened with my subtly apostate answers in the Watchtower study. So in the end I just stopped going.
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LouBelle
Oops misread the topic. Ah well.
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Billy the Ex-Bethelite
Sure. Prayed and gave talks. They are just very short now since it's all a waste of time anyway.
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