Poll: Who Left Whilst Still Believing? (page 4)

Out at Last!

1. Started "studying" at 12, baptized at 14

2. Crap

3. Crap

4. Not at all, also crap

5. B, but leaning toward C. I strongly agree with Missing Link on this one.

CHILD

1. I converted as a young adult, baptized at 21.

2. Partially. I still believed some of the doctrines when I left. The social control and the way JWs seem to suck the joy out of life irritated me.

3. Only Jesus is the truth.
4. I had no fear of Armageddhon; just wanted to please Jehovah.

5. I am a christian.

SnakesInTheTower

1. Were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?

Mom baptized when I was around 4. I, too, remember seeing pics of a single x-mas and/or birthday. (I am sooooo looking forward to celebrating it this year). Foolishly, I was dunked at 16.

2. When you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?

(c) I knew it was BS....and had inklings that it was BS prior to the 1995 Generation™ change due to my outside research on Bible chronology..... when I left I didn't know if there was supposed to be anything else. Probably why I stayed another 10+ years...on the Theocratic Treadmill.....

3. Now, do you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it is all a load of crap?

(c) Still know that the WTBTS/JW/GB is/are full of crap.

4. When you left, how afraid where you of armageddon TM ?

Armageddon™ I do not think had any real effect on me, either when I was in or out. I think I always knew that the Big A story had holes. However, I was saddened that I would not see my dad in a fantasy Resurrection™ in a Paradise Earth™. I had to regrieve all over again.

5. Do you class yourself now as (a) christian (b) agnostic (c) atheist or (d) other (please state).

(d) completely uninterested in religion. figure there is some sort of Intelligent Designer out there...or its kid is running amok in the universe making science projects and getting bored with us. try to respect the planet and leave it as I found it when I got here.

SnakesInTheTower (aka Rich, of the "finally free of the cult" Sheep Class)

GermanXJW

1. Were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?

born in (4th gen)

2. When you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truthTM, (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?

Very partially believed if at all.

3. Now, do you still (a) fully believe in the truthTM, (b) partially believe or (c) realise it is all a load of crap?

c

4. When you left, how afraid where you of armageddonTM?

Not consciously.

5. Do you class yourself now as (a) christian (b) agnostic (c) atheist or (d) other (please state).

b

jookbeard

1) born in, father was baptized in 1965 1 year before I was born mother was baptized 2 years later just after my sister was born

2) answer c had known it was B/S by about 1991 3 years after I was baptized , which was at The Surrey Ass'embly Hall Hays Bridge

3) answer c realise it is B/S even more

4) the complete opposite I'm looking forward to the Big A, because (if it comes) I believe all Dubs will be destroyed

5) b, complete Agnostic.

wobble

1) Born in

2) Believed very little was correct, when I left.

3) Total CRAP !!! Found out ,mainly on here, how very little of WT teaching is any good.

4)Never was afraid of the big A,always figured God was just,so no need to worry.

5) christian, but more the ethics than any fundy belief.

Love

Wobble

tenyearsafter

1) Mom converted when I was 10...semi-born in

2) Partial belief, but didn't really think about it much

3) Crap

4) Never gave it much thought after I left

5) Christian similar to Wobble

FlyingHighNow

1. Were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?

I moved in with my sister when I was 17. She was studying. They worked on me for months. My brother died. I started studying. Baptized at 20.

2. When you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?

B

3. Now, do you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it is all a load of crap?

C

4. When you left, how afraid where you of armageddon TM ?

Didn't care anymore. Felt that WT Jehovah was basically evil and death was better alternative to living under his tryanny.

5. Do you class yourself now as (a) christian (b) agnostic (c) atheist or (d) other (please state).

D. Other: Universalist, attending the Episcopal/Anglican church of my youth. I believe as I did naturally as a child, God loves all. Makes a way to save all.

Casper

1. Converted as an adult

2. Partially believed - I had nothing else to compare it to at the time.

3. Partially believe - Still hanging on to certain aspects of it, dealing with the "What Ifs"

4. Concerned to a degree, but felt I made my choice.

5. Agnostic - always searching

jwfacts

1. Were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?

Born-in

2. When you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?

c) realized it was all a load of crap - for the 10 years that I was undecided I continued to go to meetings half-heartedly

3. Now, do you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it is all a load of crap?

c) realize it is all a load of crap

4. When you left, how afraid where you of armageddon TM ?

Not afraid

5. Do you class yourself now as (a) christian (b) agnostic (c) atheist or (d) other (please state).

Agnostic

Poll: Who Left Whilst Still Believing?

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