Special Post: 1 year anniversary on JWN - My intro finally posted

by Awakened at Gilead 50 Replies latest jw experiences

  • Doubting Bro
    Doubting Bro

    Well written. Your story resonates with me and I'm sure with others.

  • Nellie
    Nellie

    Let me add my thanks to you for sharing. Stories like this will help others who are doubting, but questioning their doubts.

  • Olin Moyles Ghost
    Olin Moyles Ghost

    Fantastic story, AAG--you're a talented writer.

    Your account of the assembly part about the "life saving preaching work" resonates with me. I never could reconcile these two teachings: (1) the preaching work is life-saving; and (2) the end is right around the corner. When you put these two teachings together, it looks like the 2-billion-plus Arabs and Chinese are just ____ out of luck!

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    Great story - thank you very much

  • jwfacts
    jwfacts

    Wow, that really was an outstanding story. It is a fantastic deconstruct of Watchtower doctrine, but I think that by being padded in an autobiography it could be palatable to many active JWs.

    It lines up very much with my life and thinking and age of finally breaking free. I never really wanted to be a JW and from a young age kept thinking "what if it isn't the truth". I feared getting to 70 and looking back over my life thinking that I had lived a life that I never wanted to, and it wasn't even based on truth. It is sad that it takes decades of living with these thoughts to finally make sense of it and move on.

  • Quandry
    Quandry

    Thanks for your story.

    I wonder how manyothers just sit there at the meetings, pushing doubts into the far recesses of their minds? I know I did, and felt guilty, thinking that I "lacked spiritual understanding," was "like a wave of the sea" as I was doubting.

    I always wondered also, if there were annointed on earth at all times since Jesus, why Russell didn't go looking for them and attach himself to them! Why was he the beginning of the modern-day organization?

  • oompa
    oompa

    You da man!.......awesome..........oomps

    thanks for sharing

    glad you are making up for lost time so well (and fast!)....

  • LockedChaos
    LockedChaos

    Thanks

    A true inspiration for

    all those questioning.

    Never stop thinking

  • donny
    donny

    Very good account and I can identify with so many of the points you made. Very good.

    Don

  • no more kool aid
    no more kool aid

    Thanks for the story. I can relate to going back to school and that really getting the wheels turning. Then coming to point where I could not possibly attend one more meeting.

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