Average age of apostates survey.

by sleepy 118 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gopher

  1. df'd at age 39
  2. baptized at age 16
  3. brought up in it since birth

  GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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  wildeflower

  1. left at 17, df'd shortly thereafter
  2. baptized at 16
  3. raised in it
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  JBean

  Doubts started at 38, 40 now...quietly (hopefully)fading

  Baptized at 17-18

  3rd generation JW...born & raised : (
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  William Penwell

  Baptised at age 19
  Felt it wasn't the truth about age 30
  I was raised as a JW

  Will

  "I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
  Mark Twain
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  peaceloveharmony

  1.Age you left the watchtower.(Or Age you found out it was wrong)

  left at 17

  2.Age that you were baptised.

  15

  3.were you brought up in it or converted?

  RAW (Raised A Witness)
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  musicnonstop

  1. 28/29 - Started having doubts somewhere in mid-20s, then a major personal crisis meant I started 'fading out' from meetings etc. at about 27, but the final decision to mentally 'divorce' from the WT took a while...

  2. Never got dunked (so no DF/DA - a small mercy )

  3. Brought up in it.

  "They never told me what was the truth - just a young man losing his youth..."
  - The Stranglers, 'Bear Cage'
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  jaded

  Started to fade at 45, four years ago. Last meeting was last year's Memorial, will not go this year.
  Baptized at 23.
  Converted. Now can someone tell me what the hell I was thinking???
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  waiting

  left at 50
  baptised at 20
  Converted.

  Obviously I was thinking the same thing Jaded was.........

  waiting
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  outnfree

  1. left at age 46 after about 10 years of doubts

  2. baptized at age 34 (didja notice that the doubts were not long in appearing?)

  3. converted (first introduced to the religion at 17 ...)

  outnfree

  It's what you learn after you know it all that counts -- John Wooden
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  waiting

  ok - my husband

  left at 55
  baptised at 15
  bred & born into it.

  My kids:

  girl - left at 20 (df),
  baptised at 16
  born into it.

  boy - left at 18
  baptised at 16
  born into it.

  boy - left at 18
  no baptism (I was getting wiser)
  born into it.