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haujobbz

I dont know if you been asked this before but what made you give up your religious beliefs,i assume that not all on here were jehovahs witnesses so if you were not please say.Well i will telll you why i left, i got baptised as a jw 2 yrs ago and then started to notice say 6 months after baptism that the followers didnt really heed the what they were being taught it didnt seem to motivate them in their hearts, to say display genuine love it was more like a routine to them to be at meetings,talk to same ones,read watchtowers,it seemed so mechanical like robots,im not saying this is what caused me leave because i was serving genuinely i was really interested in practising what i preached,but i found it hard because everyone wasnt trying to do the samething.So then gradually i started to question things and then i got the internet last year and was itching to look on these so called apostate sites,you see i wanted to prove these sites wrong but in the end i was proved wrong with things like prophecies,jws past history,etc. So thats my story

Francois

I like your story. Succinct. To the point. clear. Mercifully brief. (I could learn a lot from you!)

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heathen

I never was one but was studying and trying to become one but the reason I called it quits was because I couldn't take the petty cheezey crap that I kept running across in the congregation.I mean you could be deemonized for not going along with their beliefs .[&>:(]

onacruse

Welcome to the board! I was a JW for 40 years, and congratulate you for being so much faster than I was to see reality.

happy man

Onnacruse

Hello, when i read abaout thing like you wright i am very confused, if you being inn for so long time and serv in this positions, why leave, intresting to here your story if you want, ?

DakotaRed

I was raised in the First Assembly of God, but stopped going to church in my mid teens. After many years of seeking a religion that I could agree with, I answered to door and found two JWs. They came back and we started a study. For me, the biggest draw was their non-belief in the trinity. Gradually, I bought into much of what they teach and was baptized in my forties. Much like you, thoguh, I soon noticed that although they don't believe in the trinity, they don't follow what they teach in their literature.

What made me leave, though, was that I married a JW woman and right off the bat, started getting interference from elders some 10 years my junior. It seemed that everybody was running my house but me, although I was the only one paying the bills. After a period of about 5 years inactive, two elders decided that I needed to be DF'd and came by the house to deliberately provoke a confrontation with me. When they succeeded and I threw them out, I was sent the infamous letter informing me of their JC. I refused to attend and cited many scriptures and Watchtower quotes as my reason and indicating they were actually in violation themselves. However, this did not stop the interference and backbiting, so about a year later, I DA'd.

Should have done in 8 years earlier and saved myself a lot of grief.

Lew W

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SloBoy

I joined the JW's looking for the truth, and I left the JW's looking for the truth. I saw little truth in what they teach and how they act.