by journey-on 22 Replies latest jw friends
12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD's.
Maybe that's why in all the fairy tales, the evil trolls take the firstborn.
openeth the matrix
How appropos!
all of my brothers and sisters left. First left first, Second (me) second, third...third you get the point
I'm an only child.
And out of all the kids that I grew up with at the KH, I think only a couple of them are still in. Several left for a time and returned *gag*.
I'm the first born and the only one out.
Hey there journey-on,
I'm the firstborn of two children and I'm out (way out) while my younger sister is in.
In the case of one family that I know that had four sons and a daughter, the first born (son) was the first to leave. And this was a family that had Dad, two sons, and son-in-law all as elders in the same congregation. I don't think any of them are still Witnesses now though...
If the firstborn stays with the religion, it may be more loyalty to Mom and Dad than real faith. Firstborn children do have a tendency to take on a lot of responsibility.
Anyway,
Ruth
Older brother still in. Younger son me, way out.
I was the first born child in my family and I was the first one out.
This one is a hard one to answer for me, because I've been the youngest, the middle and the oldest. I'm the youngest of my full blood siblings, and they all left by the time I was about 9/10. My mother died and my father remarried and had two more children. For a while we were all at home, that made me pretty much the middle child (my oldest sister left home at 15). Once all my older siblings left, I was the oldest to my two half siblings.
Out of those two, I left first, my younger brother left several years after I did, my youngest sister is still in.
I am the oldest of 4 children and the only one out so far.
