Youths and Young Adults Missing in my Congregation (page 2)

moshe

This has to be noticeable to everyone- but it's the elephant in the room that JWs choose to ignore for now.

seawolf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNgONH2ncI

Around where I'm a lot have stayed but the ones that have seem to have one foot in and one out ....do what they can get away with while staying a JW.

Very interesting thread. The internet, cell phones, blackberries, hundreds of TV stations dominate the lives of kids 12 and up. You can't keep them down. Information is available everywhere for young people to know what is going on in the world. They can't keep them in a little JW bubble anymore.

ruruj

Scarred for life you got PM.

miseryloveselders

There were seven or eight of us at my home congregation. Not to mention the teenagers and young adults present who left when I was still a small lad. There are only two of us that stayed in the religion since reaching adulthood. Occasionally I see some of the others out and about, or at the Memorial. As the other post mentioned, it is like a elephant in the room. I told my mother about all the young folks leaving. She volunteerred to help out at a assembly hall renovation. She couldn't wait to tell me about all the young people there as if she was making some kind of point. I told her I guarantee you 2/3 of them will leave this religion, or half heartedly stick with it to appease family. She got upset. It really is the truth about the truth in that they're losing their young people. They can blame it on Satan all they want. You and I know otherwise.

thetrueone

some were dedicated and quite enthusiastic in the "truth".

Most likely they found out they were just being exploited by a corrupt disingenuous

religious publishing house. The truth came to them in way or another.

skeeter1

Young adults are leaving many churches, but none so more than the Watchtower Society. According to the PEW studies, the Watchtower has the highest rate of youths leaving their church; more so than any other organized religion.

The old croonies at Bethel will say that their "Jehovah Based" rules are too hard for today's youth to follow; and think these young people are leaving because they want to live an immoral lifestyle. May be true for some, but why don't the JW kids return in droves in mid-life?

Far from it, they are researching on the Internet and figuring out that the "Truth" has alot of deception, changes, and is a cult.

ruruj

The old croonies at Bethel will say that their "Jehovah Based" rules are too hard for today's youth to follow; and think these young people are leaving because they want to live an immoral lifestyle. May be true for some, but why don't the JW kids return in droves in mid-life?

There are youths from model elder families who are model JW youths themselves. They leave Watchtower control soon after they no longer tolerate (cover-over) their congregation's pressures and not due to immorality. You would probably see their pictures in past Watchtower and Awake magazines.

AGuest

About 90% of the young people who attended when my kids were young are out (they are still in touch with many of them). Of that, about 10% are DF'd... with about 4% of them actually committing some kind of crime (even one murder/suicide). Of the approx. 10% still in, about 8% are there because they (a) want/need to keep relations good with their parents or (b) got in "trouble" when they were younger and are trying to appease their consciences/make up for it. Only about 2% are actually committed and tend to have the same "attitudes" are their uber-JW parents before them. The "apples falling very close to the tree" kind...

Peace to you all!

A slave of Christ,

SA

Sam Whiskey

Seawolf....geez.....I swear, I was thinking of the same exact clip. And you beat me to it!

"These two yutes"....

Youths and Young Adults Missing in my Congregation

Share this