by gydja 28 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
unclebruce,
cheers, unclebruce (hope this didn't put you to sleep
Far from it! You were a "fine example" of a good Witness! Going door to door on your own at 10? Plus 8 is quite the young age to be caned for your beliefs. You are one tough fellow!
Richard
You are one tough fellow!
..tough and soft at the same time skeptic (like a scotish margarine lol)
Much of what I experienced at home and school had me develope a mistrust of adults from an early age. (it ultimately helped me see evil in the cult - being a skeptic has it's advantages eh. lol
your turn - (i'm off to look up your story/s
cheers, bro.
I was exposed to the J.W.'s when I was 11. My best friend was and still is one. She used to always tell me that I had such a sincere heart and therefore it would be natural for me to be lead to the organization. So throughout my entire teenage yrs and in my twenties I was going to the hall. I wasn't baptized however until I was 28. Needless to say my best friend is no longer my best friend. She stopped talking to me in early 91. Oh well, at least my eyes are not blinded anymore. Still struggling but with you guys it is a joy.
Peace,
Freddi
I just wanted to know what the Bible said. At the time I was young and foolish, and I accepted a “free” Bible study. It never occurred to me to thoroughly investigate the Witnesses and the Watchtower, after all they were such nice people an all. And that so-called free Bible study, well it has cost me more then I could ever have imagined.
Freeman
This should be pretty easy...
I was raised in it, so I never recall a choice about accepting it as the truth, or not; my only choice was: how soon could I be accepted for baptism?
Hints of 1975 had started, and I must have been anxious about it because I remember they had to get permission from the Circuit Overseer since I wasn't going to be 10 years old until a few weeks before the District assemlies started.
But my own reasons were more along the lines of: "You Can Survive Armageddon into God's New World" which is nearly a euphemism for "get dipped or die"
Gamaliel
The thing that made me join The Cult was when I heard "She Sells Sanctuary" on the radio. (A little Rock 'n Roll humor.) Like many, the day my dad decided not to wear a rubber the night I came to exist was the day I joined the damn cult.
I was born into the damned thing. And it cost me very many things. However, there is one thing I say with pride. I never, not once, ever donated any money to the WTBTS in that collection box located near the rear entrance. Not one cent did I ever fork over.
francois
The reason I am asking so much, is because that I don´t quite see what urges or triggers people to join in.
I was born in but what triggers it for people ....is a good sales pitch. Have you ever joined a multi-level market scam or bought a 2500.00 vacuume?
It works a bit the same. People are fed up ith what is portrayed by religion. They want answers to lifes questions also.
The Organisation is EXCELLENT in appealing to those desires of people and have done a great job in making them believable through the scriptures also. The dumb as well as the intellectual can be decieved through false promises and hopes.
Gumby
