No. They're just men, nothing more, nothing less
I realize that now; but back then I, actually, thought that they were "God's visible organization". Now, I think they're big pimps!
Were you totally petrified to question the teaching of the dubs?
by MsDucky 23 Replies latest jw friends
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MsDucky
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dgp
Marked. May I say I felt about the same way when I first went into a Kingdom Hall?
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man in black
when I became a jw as a teenager i enjoyed the fact that many young people in this religion were
1), heavy drinkers,
2),they smoked cigarettes, and smoked some other things .
3), They went to R and worse rated movies on a regular basis The PO's sons took me along to see many movies that were really bad
4), They swore like sailors, yet appeared to be total angels in the hall. .
5), They dated different worldy girls pretty much every weekend.
So I never questioned the teachings because this was an entirely different, and totally enjoyable hypocritical world,,
completely different from my old religion (RC).
Straightened up after many of my friends were df'ed for drug use, got married. had kids. I really had no time to question things then,, too busy trying to become a MS, (what a waste of life, and time that was)!
Kids grow up, suddenly the JW Utopian view of the future started to look really false sounding to me, I researched several major questions by myself and I began my fade.
Getting out was a good thing for me, FINALLY I realized that it was all based on lies !!!
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wobble
As a born in, I always questioned, and rarely got good answers, just "wait on Jehovah" etc.
Hence I was never a 100% Witless, over the years I preached by my own methods and my own understanding of scripture, not the WT party line.
It got to the point where I could not even push the literatrash on to the public, so I stopped preaching.
I waited one year for an answer to the 1914 thing, got none, so walked away.
Looking back I wish that I had come to my senses decades earlier, but better late than never, at least what is left of my life is MINE.
Wobble