Before you learned the real truth about "The Truth", did anyone try to help you get out of JWs?

shamus100

Nope.

I knew on a very basic level that there was something very wrong with them. I did no research on the net - and didn't until many years later. I just left.

Frankly, if anyone did try to 'help' me out, I would have been very suspicious of them.

dissed

Outside of debates with workmates, I would say no.

All apostates we knew of were deranged lunatics waving signs at conventions. So those, I kept my distance from.

I was in the Episc church every other weekend for 10 years but they would just have the priest say a few words asking holy spirit to keep vigilant watch over me. While I did learn about their beliefs they didn't say I had to believe them nor directly challenged me when I challenged them, just calm discussions on difference of opinions......(eventually I was kicked out of Sunday School but it was a mutual parting and no hard feelings)

Other than that I guess to some extent you could count the Nazi PO doing his best to put me spiritually/socially outside of the flock's safety and asking me each week to more or less to 'die already'....... can ya feel the love for me as a 2nd grader thru early this century!

Actually JWD was the only time I had any contact with anyone who challenged me as a JW........ and I am eternally grateful!

FreudianSlip

Nope. I wouldn't have listened anyway. This was something I had to do on my own.

Out at Last!

No

yesidid

If they did it was so subtle, or I was so dense, I wasn't aware of it.

jamiebowers

Yes, my best friend from high school. I just thought he didn't understand, because he wasn't in the "truth". His words didn't sink in until right before I left. It took about five years.

WTWizard

They did so without trying. When they told me to just meet other men, I saw that there was no point in continuing. And, the more they set my circle up with just plain men, the more I saw fit to completely blow them off.

That worked much better than any reasoning would have.

Before you learned the real truth about "The Truth", did anyone try to help you get out of JWs?

JimmyPage