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When you were an active Jehovah Witness, did you live a double life? Were you a spirtual person at the hall, and in the service, and then a completely different person when no one was around to watch you? Maybe you knew such people?

hippikon

No - To start with I realy believed it - It wasn't untill I had had put up with enough crap that I started the double life

Beck_Melbourne

I lived a double life as a teenager growing up in it....but once I married and had a family of my own I converted over from indifferent to full on believer.

I was still a believer when I left...and just considered myself weak (though I sometimes used to think me wicked) I became a non-believer in the last 12 months after reading COC by Ray Franz.

~Beck~

Mum

Like hippikon, I was gung ho. I think it is the sincere, true believer, honest, clean living JW's who are most likely to exit. The others don't have anything to gain by leaving. I left because I did not like the person I had become and could no longer tolerate the prison I had put myself in.

freedom96

I was always a good guy, and did people right, whether or not they or myself were witnesses. I just faded away, and have not really changed my personality. Just allow myself to do what I want guilt free.

Prisca

I fully believed in what I was doing, and never thought of living a double life. If I wanted to go out and do "worldly" stuff, I would have left. I don't believe in living a lie. You have to be honest with yourself.

I left the Borg when I stopped believing in the FDS and realised they were false prophets.

shera

I was good for most of my Jw's yrs....On the last,I was living a double life.Before I wrote my DA letter,I was celebrating Christmas and hollowe'en and going out to bars.Had a wordly BF and all that stuff.

kelpie

I was a full believer until I got weak and left. Now reading CoC and helping me to break away

Francois

I lived a double life full-blown. I was a real Jekyll and Hyde. But I tired of the game and resented all the time I wasn't Mr. Hyde, especially after I figured out I was wasting my time in a cult.

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bay64me

No double life for me.

I really believed everything I was taught from the platform and did my absolute utmost to do what was required of me.It was only when I saw first hand, the despicable way a good friend was treated by this so-called loving brotherhood that I started to have my doubts. I could not bear to be with such people so meeting attendance slipped, I stopped giving talks and going out in the ministry. I got 'weak' and dared to go on the apostate sites and I've never looked back really

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