When You Were A JW Were You Disturbed By "Apostate" Literature or "Apostates" At Conventions?

by minimus 47 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  I was always curious about what they had to say. (I guess I was an apostate in the making).
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  cedars

  Consciously, no. Subliminally, quite possibly.

  Signs saying things like "don't be slaves of the Watchtower!" used to grate with me. I think they hit a nerve.

  Cedars
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  minimus

  I used to wonder, Why do they say that?

  I always would go to the library and read "apostate" books and then I'd go to the KH library and read the publications for verification.
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  Vanderhoven7

  It was apostate literature that my Dad picked up off the grounds while leaving a convention. One of JWs with him grabbed it from his hands , crumpled it and threw it on the ground declaring it to be APOSTATE LITERATURE. Curious, my Dad snuck back later and picked it up and read it. This was I believe the first turning point in his withdrawl from the organization.
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  minimus

  I love hearing that. The forbidden fruit!
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  wallsofjericho

  I remember almost being short of breathe reading apostate lit. I remember praying after and being scared of demons. so ridiculous. I can't believe I was so indoctrinated.
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  Open mind

  As a kid, I always found it kind of exciting and entertaining if there were sign-waving apostates outside a DC.

  I thought that most of the sign wavers seemed like they were off their meds, but, equally, it was amusing seeing some of the paranoid responses by true-blue JWs.

  om
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  ScenicViewer

  I've seen signs with a string of many dates, going back to the 1840s, that I never understood.

  I now know that these dates represented Watchtower's failed predictions. And the 1840s dates, which I knew were pre-Russell, were the failures of the second adventists and William Miller, whose works Russell later studied.
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  minimus

  I did think that when they were screaming at the Witnesses, it was a turn-off.
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  DesirousOfChange

  I wondered why they just didn't go set up their own churches where they could preach their venom.

  Evil Slave.

  Doc (who drank the KoolAid)