Were You a 100% True Blue JW Believer?

minimus

Did you at any time-- totally-- accept everything being taught to you by the Witnesses?

oompa

guess not....i started living a double life in third grade...never stopped........oompa

details...so i started liking worldly girls in third grade!..df me.....plus i saluted the flag...just hated to be the freak.....

OUTLAW

Absolutely..When I was 12..LOL!!...............As I got older I had no idea why a grown adult would believe WBT$ Bullsh*t...................... Laughing Mutley ...OUTLAW

Quirky1

I am 100% sure they are a bunch of fruitcakes!!

Witness 007

I was the best "Terminator" Witness robot on the block........"Come with me if you want to live."

sacolton

I believed 49% ... the other 51% was bullcrap.

I guess at some point, I tried to be a 100% true believer. I squelched the doubts and questions long enough to continue to be programmed to obey and follow orders. Even though I lived a double life as a younger person, by the time I hit 30, I was trying to be a good little dubbie.

But there always seemed to be something there that kept me from going full speed ahead. I never wanted to pioneer, go to Bethel, be a missionary or even an elder. Something deep down said, "Don't do it". But I kept doing the bare minimum, and accepting "privileges" when they came along. I thought for awhile that I just wasn't faithful enough to be a good JW.

It wasn't until I was out that I realized that my subconscious knew something was wrong. I just wish I had woken up much earlier...

blondie

Only if I understood that the Bible supported it; otherwise it was optional.

asilentone

Well, yes I was 100 percent JW believer, Thanks to my parents for brainwashing me from infancy.

Jeremy C

This is hard to answer. For so many years, I suppressed any doubts and cognitive dissonance that I had. On a counscious level, I would say that I did believe 100% for most of the time. On a subconscious level, I'm sure that I did not believe various teachings. I always had trouble with the legalism and rigid thinking within the organization.

For me, the crack in the dam emerged when I began to research the Old Testament; particularly Genesis. I knew that if the Garden Of Eden account was not a real historical event; that the entire Christian paradigm of sin, salvation, and final judgement was just a house of cards. Then, when I read Steven Hassan's book: Combatting Cult Mind Control; the dam completely burst.