What was the last straw?

freedom96

For those who just up and left the WTS, what was the one thing, if any, that made you think to yourself, allright, that is it, I am outa here!!

In my case, what affected me was the lack of true love. I always was a generous person and always gave more that my share, but when I lost my job, and I saw how no one cared about my well being, then I could see that they didn't have any love for me. The organization is a one way street. Give give and give. I saw how greedy they were. I didn't need to scan the bible to find this out. It was clear that they didn't have the love that Jesus said would reign in the true religion. I only saw hypocrisy and control.

imanaliento

For me it was when Dateline aired the pedophile issue, then reading Crisis of Conscience and how the Gov Body opperates along with the chapter on double standard. at first I thought that to keep things normal we could still go through the motions of meeting attendance and so on. but I couldn't stomach listening to them diss the Catholic church with their pedophile problem when theirs was just as huge if not worse. so it took me from May to Aug, missing meetings and coming up with excuses but I felt how could God approve of that organization so we wrote DA letters. now it seems like it's way in the past.

Soledad

once Saturday morning I was in a small group in field service. It was pretty warm. I was walking and looking down at the ground and for some reason I decided to look up. It seemed that everyone was walking with their heads down. I said to myself we all look like pathetic drones, like robots just knocking on doors pushing worthless crappy magazines on people. That's when I realized it was over for me. I attended the district assembly a couple of weeks after that, but I felt so out of it, so bored, I couldnt even remember what any of it was about, it wasn't like other years when I look so forward to the assemblies I could hardly sit still. That year it was all over, I couldnt take it anymore.

Nickey

It was the control and hypocrisy. My whole life was controlled and held back and I too was one walking with my head down in field service. Shuffling alone and dragging my bookbag. Knocking on door with hypocritical magazines. And having to be judge on my time card. "Only 1 HOUR?"

The "do as I say and not as I do." The last straw for me was seeing that they were just like the one's they accused. Not caring about me as an individual. Only made house calls... or the annual "shep call" when rumors popped up and they came to find out what dirt was going on.

Basically, the UN thing woke me up and furthered my research and learning. And now I'm here.

SPAZnik

Love.

reubenfine

The total lack of love from the top down, then the elders desire to repeat whatever the borg said, right or wrong. It didn't matter if I was right or wrong, only that I was different. Plus they wanted me to violate my conscience. My conscience didn't matter.

nelly1

i relate to every single one of you, i noticed that the more hours you did the more attention you got, if u got studies you got attention,if u placed alot of magazines you got attention, if you were related to an elder,CO.DO,someone at bethel. a pioneer, you got attention.

if you were a sole parent or a poor person, or had something wrong with you, you were ignored, and as far as service in the western world well it was like going around the walls of jerhico, big time, and it got to the stage where I was soooo sick of not at homes, telephone witnessing i loved that but everyone else hated it to it was never done, bunches of excuses were made.

and yes the lack of love that is soo evident, i know maybe 2 witnesses now that are still in who were very loving to me. but the rest bleh, out for themselves and that is all.

one is a farmer filthy rich wouldnt help a dying dog on the road makes me sick.

and yes the hypocrisy, never mind about what is good for the goose is good for the gander,it doesnt happen.

to be honest i felt like feild service with endless not at homes was like a waste of gas a waste of my time and a waste of jehovahs time... simple as that. and not many people wanted to listen they are sick of us knocking on the door and to be perfectly frank I used to force myself to go out. i got so sick of it.

and yes that peodophile thing is dispicable, imagine what jehovah must be thinking and saying. doesnt bare thinking abt.

and there will be alot of millstones when hes ready to use them all, a big clean out or judgement day is coming, and the WT needs to look and see if it itself is not part of babylon the great. food for thought.

love to all

nelly

No Apologies

The last straw was the UN membership. Proved to me that the Org was not misguided, not simply incorrect, but purposefully deceptive.

Mulan

We were doing a gradual fade, and I read Crisis of Conscience. That did it. The lying and hypocrisy was so blatant, and I just couldn't do it anymroe. I told my husband I will never go back. And neither of us ever did. That was 1997. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!