Why did you become a Witness?

JH

Why did you become a Jehovah Witness ? Was it your parents who dragged you into it, or was it a friend, or maybe just a knock on your door from a stranger? With all the religions out there, why did you choose that one?

seven006

The devil made me do it.

Blueblades

It was in the sixties 1975 was looming! self-preservation for me and my family.I know. I was not serving a date.30 something yrs. later still here.Children are grown and married and long gone on their way.Misses and I still around but not for long.Blueblades

bay64me

A momentary lapse, which turned into the most traumatic and unfulfilling experience of my entire life.

finnrot

seven006 you actually made me laugh out loud. You funny

Scully

I didn't have a lot of choice in the matter. My parents started studying when I was 6 years old, and then were both baptized by the time I was 8.

I wanted to quit when I was in my teens, but was dragged to meetings and door-to-door anyway. I was threatened with being kicked out of the house when I was 15 years old if I didn't "smarten up" and start toeing the line.

I went along with it to keep the peace. My mother made my life miserable when I started questioning the JWs and the teachings. It was easier for me to ride it out and be "obedient" than it was to try to figure out who I really was and what I really wanted out of life. I got baptized at the age of 17 because I was told that it was about time that I did. My dad congratulated me after I got baptized. My mom sneered at me and said something to the effect of "You just did what you were supposed to do. Why should you get special treatment or congratulations?"

Geez... the more I think about growing up in the JWs, the more I see how they made my mother hate me. I could never treat my own children the way she treated me.

Love, Scully

Mum

I was a teenager, and I had some strange notions at the time. I liked the certainty and the glib explanations for everything, i.e., pat answers, cut and dried, no thought necessary.

After I got involved, I was shocked to learn that I could no longer associate with my friends I had before I was a JW. But I was the kind of person who doubted myself and always believed the other person knew better than I did what was right for me. A fool such as I and a high control group were meant for each other.

Besides that, I got to go to New York to a big assembly. Such a poverty of existence did I have in my teen years that becoming a JW actually opened up the world in certain ways. Years later, of course, it became quite the opposite, with the JW life and mindset keeping me from achieving even a small part of my human potential.

I'm glad I threw myself into the JW thing completely. By getting to be a JW insider, I was able to see the corruption and hate that emanates from the core. As a young person with no other family members "in the truth," I was much better able to believe in the "love" they told me they had (but took away for the most arbitrary of reasons).

Regards,

SandraC

Carmel

Parental cooersion, plain and simple.

carmel

SPAZnik

I remember with clarity, the day I "dedicated my life" to Jehovah.
And the day I symbolized that dedication by immersion.

Why did I do it?

Many reasons:

Because I was born into it.
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Because I was in love with Jehovah. He had preserved and helped me through A LOT.
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Because I truly wanted to serve him.
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Because I believed the witnesses represented him.

SPAZ

LB

Because I am a stupid stupid man.

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