Has anyone here actually convinced someone out of the truth here?

by bottleofwater 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Found Sheep

  I helped three out!! and one that was DF helped her mentally out
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  flipper

  I am in the process of helping and facillitating the fades of one of my nieces and one nephew. I did not initially help them to stop attending, they did that themselves. BUT - I am giving them access to information they may not have known otherwise by my hanging out here on JWN and reading I've done. So it's an ongoing process this " making people aware " thing. My 26 yr.old son actually left the JW's a year before I did 9 years ago. So he and I pack a one-two punch in exposing the WT society to his cousins- my JW siblings kids
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  james_woods

  Oh yes - quite a few. It is a long story, but right around the time (a few years before, actually) of the Ray Franz scandal, and when Ed Dunlap was kicked out - about 50 people left in Oklahoma City. Or, perhaps more. No one person did it all, but there was a big episode of many walking away. It still persists to this day.

  I was a young elder at the time, and I am proud to say that I was the first to resign and first to be DFd for apostacy. Even before Ed's brother Marion - I was young and rash at the time. He was the city overseer at the time - and nobody could believe we both walked. Most of the 50 who left never had "JW-judicial" action - I think Marion and myself were the only ones to be formally disfellowshipped.

  I would also like to say - (for the thousandth time - and, on the record) - nobody tried to start their own religion. Everybody just quit, breathed in the clean fresh air outside the prison, and got on with their lives.

  James
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  wha happened?

  3 of the 5 voices in my head convinced the other 2
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  james_woods

  3 of the 5 voices in my head convinced the other 2

  
  Well, at least you were able to meet the 2/3 majority rule, like the Governing Body does...
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  N.drew

  3 of the 5 voices in my head convinced the other 2

  Good one!!! LOL!!!
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  moshe

  My kids admitted I was right and my ex-wife admiited to them I was right- it just took 5 years of my harping to get it done. Thank goodness the kids were only 9 and 11 when my JW wife divorced me. I had many years of court mandated visitation to tell my side. Had they been over 18, it might not have turned out like this.

  Now for JWs on the outside- In my experience, 5 minutes worth of WT expose' at the door, doesn't have much sticking power, unless they are already having doubts. I still gave'em hell, just so they left with a sore arse and they remembered talking to a householder whose objections they couldn't overcome.
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  Magwitch

  James....

  Everybody just quit, breathed in the clean fresh air outside the prison, and got on with their lives.

  Priceless
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  james_woods

  James....Everybody just quit, breathed in the clean fresh air outside the prison, and got on with their lives.

  Priceless

  Thanks, Magwitch. It really was the way it happened. I will try to PM you the next time Mai and I are up to the cabin near Boulder - maybe we can BBQ a steak. Next Spring.
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  Magwitch

  Would absolutely love that James!