JWs are a superstitous lot.
inactive ones going back...
by monis1 36 Replies latest jw friends
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steve2
So, monis1, of that big group of friends you had in your congregation, 75% left and 40 years later, 1 goes back. Hardly a trend, my friend. Recalls the saying, "One swallow does not a summer make". But, yes, I recognize the susceptibility of humans in general to fear-provoked motivation.
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blondie
good point, steve2.
I have occasionally seen a young jw return when the get married and have a child and worried the child will die at Armageddon because its parents are not jws. But then after 6 to 9 months, maybe a year, they are gone again, especially if the spouse is a non-jw.
I felt I had to find another religion and I could not accept the trinity or hellfire. Finally I realized I did not need a religion.
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Finkelstein
Personal trauma in individuals can invoke certain ones to return to the Kingdom Halls, but when that trauma
subsides they once again leave.
Kind of like going through a turnstyle door.
This is more of an occurrence with adolescents and young adults.
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nonjwspouse
Fink, from some of the postings on this site, I have seen more just just a few people speaking of thier previously many years long inactive JW spouse deciding to return in the past years, myself included.
Age, and the things that ususally come with it, like recognising mortality, or pain from illness etc... then the person searches out the familiar many times especially if they never did the work of researching ttatt during their time away.
I have a feeling this is rather common. I imagine, though, it doesn't usually last, or at least I would hope not.
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