I think we should all start reporting how many hours we have put into the work, how much literature we have placed, how many people are on the way to to becoming ex-jw's................or Maybe not.
Ex-JWs, How Many People Have Left the WTBTS Due To Your Efforts?
by ziddina 30 Replies latest jw experiences
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cantleave
Tuesday - you rock! As I have said before you videos helped me to see through BS.
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WTWizard
I haven't helped anyone leave, but I have prevented one who was studying from becoming a witless. A workmate was studying and starting to go to the boasting sessions, and I recommended checking Six Screens of the Watchtower before doing anything else with the religion. And that killed that study.
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willyloman
My count is 4, so between me and Tuesday we have 119.
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Heaven
To my knowledge, I haven't helped anyone escape ... yet. I work on people who haven't joined. I educate them on the WTS, especially the remainder of my family not in as well as my friends and colleagues. I never run the JWs down but I do call them a destructive religious cult and I back up my statements. I explain the facts and what my experiences have been. I hope that this, in turn, ensures they pass on the info. if someone they know is considering joining.
Right now my personal quest would be to get my father to see the light. I use his own experiences and beliefs to point out the fallacies. Especially the pedophilia case that went on in his previous congregation. I like to use examples that make him uncomfortable. It demonstrates to him why I would never join. I think it's good to make them uncomfortable as it shows they know there are issues. Does it eventually result in them leaving? I think it all depends on the individual's circumstances. As with those such as Yknot, she knows it's BS but has family still in and is unwilling to lose all that. I totally understand. She can do some good work from within so I see those like her as having the covert advantage of being able to conduct 'the inside job'.
For me, the defining moment regarding whether I was to become a JW or not happened when I was about 15 or 16. The "Your Youth" book and an article describing how a wife is to subjugate herself to her husband were the icing on the cake for me in deciding never to join. It was the defining moment of a number of things that I had doubts about. As I got older, I realized that a lot of it was/is a pile of crap. I was increasingly disagreeing with their interpretation of scripture and I could see how they went well beyond what was written in the Bible regarding their doctrines. The flip-flop that my Mom did regarding Evolution vs Creation was another big eye-opener for me. She also pressured us into going out on service even though she did not. She used her smoking habit as a reason for not going. I told her that she can't expect us to go if she is unwilling. I never went.
When I turned 19 I was outta the house like a shot, off to College. None of my siblings joined, nor have their children.
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Bonnie_Clyde
Between Clyde and myself - two sons - 1 daughter-in-law - and helped a person who was studying to quit.
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Satanus
None, that i know of. I don't have an obligation to, anyway. That's me.
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AllTimeJeff
Not yet. :)
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leavingwt
Two.
Both of them had reasons to think that their lives would be better outside the organization. Hence, their willingness to indulge their doubts and examine the evidence.
Steve Hassan says that cult members who are truly happy, are virtually impossible to extract. I think I mostly agree.
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AllTimeJeff
Steve Hassan says that cult members who are truly happy, are virtually impossible to extract. I think I mostly agree.
I agreas as well.