I don't know, it's a tie between these 3:
- lack of love in the organization
- a certain friend / intelligent, kind hearted "worldly" people
- and this forum
Who Or What Influenced You The Most To Leave The Organization?
by minimus 51 Replies latest jw friends
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Lozhasleft
The elders and their corrupt judicial committee hearings drove me out....Ray Franz's CofC set me free....this site helps me along on my way.
Loz x
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WontLeave
Just like we can't physically leave the earth, but Jesus tells us we are to be no part of the world, I don't feel I have to go anywhere. If I'm following Christ and reading the Bible with the goal of understanding it instead of drowning it with man-made commentary, I am on the right path. If someone has a problem with that, they're the ones who need to adjust their course, not I. The GB love to point to the apostles asking Jesus "whom will we go away to?" and try to "by extension" themselves into the equation. But, just like then, Jesus is the one we need to follow and nobody else. The GB and their puppet elders are the ones who push the "organization" adherence and worship. If we don't allow them to, they lose all their power and suddenly become insignificant. The time is coming when God will be on one side and our friends, family, "brothers", and the organization will be on the other. Do not be weighed down with the group so that when it goes down it pulls you with it. None of those men in NY can save us. As long as we keep that in mind, we should be fine.
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wobble
The Governing Body of the WT Org just made me leave, I really had no choice.
The problem was that I actually had what they talk about a lot, but rarely exists in a JW, a Bible Trained Conscience.
99.9% of JW's have a WT trained conscience, one that is very flexible and will only stick to its principles if the WT tells it to.
My conscience would no longer allow me to associate with people who idolised and worshipped the Governing Body by looking to them for salvation. A group of men who stood in the place that only Jesus should stand, as mediator between us and God.
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TheLoveDoctor
My wife who was not as supportive of her elder husband as she could be, to manny young ministeral servants takeing More meeting parts freed me up, giving me more time to look up stuff that bothered me, free time to read other books and thinking wow people arnt all that bad. the internet this and other outstanding sites. U can easily i u take the proper time to investigate separate the mad, disgruntled, negative apostates from the true ones that have ligit reasons to feel the way they do and offer the wts liturature as proof
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Lunatic Faith
Feeling like life was passing me by. Like I had spent my life making sacrifices and it hadn't gotten me anything but a whole lot of anxiety and self hatred. Then watching my dad die even though he had been assured in 1953 that Armageddon was six months away. I realized I didn't want to end my life like him. I came to the realization that the death the WT promised for the unfaithful was better than a life as one of them.
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meangirl
Like many others the lack of love, the blood doctrine, the politics in the KH and I also did not like not being able to make any decisions for myself.
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Heartofaboy
Among many things the final straw was the GB glorifying themselves at every opportunity & as wobble suggested their 'standing in a place they ought not' as mediator between me & God.
Hoab
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donny
For me it was the behavior of my ex plus the paranoia displayed by the elders when I would not be pacified with their quick canned responses to my questions on JW history and doctrine.
Donny
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sizemik
The merciless persecution of an elderly brother by the PO and his wife, closely followed by the suicide of a delightful young man who also incurred their wrath . . . nasty, nasty people.
Being heavily involved in both issues (the young man was my B student) cost me my mental health, and gave me plenty of time to think and read.
The rest is predictable history.