Oh, yes, I hadn't thought of the date in those terms. For me, it was a coming of age thing, 18 YO and just didn't believe.
Thanks. .
Thanks. .
Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized
by ILoveTTATT2 155 Replies latest jw friends
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LisaRose
1) Converted at 13 along with my parents
2)Baptized in 1969
3)left in late1999
Thirty years a Watchtower slave (lol , there was a book written by that name in the fifties or sixties, we were warned about the bitter, evil apostate thing)
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dropoffyourkeylee
Raised in
baptized 1974
1991
17 years
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Brokeback Watchtower
1 No
2 1972
3 2001
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NewYork44M
1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert? - Raised - born in 1957 (3rd generation jw)
2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? 1971
3) when did you leave/woke up completely? 1995 woke up to TTATT and fully left 2004
Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...I will let you do the math. I charge for any calculations.
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Sail Away
1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?
Converted at age 9
2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)
Baptized in 1976, age 16 (I would have been baptized at age 10 if my father had allowed it.)
3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)
2011
Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...
35 years from baptism to exit
Mr. Sail Away:
1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?
Converted at age 5 with parents
2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)
Baptized age 14, 1965
3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)
Left 1984
Learned TTAT 2012
Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...
Physically in baptism to exit 19 years
Mentally in from baptism to learning TTAT 47 years
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ILoveTTATT2
Thanks everyone! Keep 'em comin'!
So far, the data is yielding some impressive insights (no data yet in 2010 since no one has answered that they were baptized in 2010 or later):
Decade Average time to get out Standard deviation1960 25.8 years 7.69 years
1970 22.1 years 11.89 years
1980 21.0 years 6.09 years
1990 14.3 years 6.90 years
2000 8.5 years 3.22 years
It is clear that 1975 led to a much higher variability, meaning that for a lot of people, 1975 truncated their stay with the Watchtower, but for a lot, it made no difference.
It is also clear (and very encouraging) that every decade without exception sees a lower average stay in the Watchtower, and also the lower standard deviation means that the factor that is reducing the time that people stay in the Watchtower cult affects everyone. And I am going to say that the factor is... obviously, the internet.
Now, my data may be skewed because I still have little data, I only have 70 responses, and the responses are naturally of people who are on the internet. Perhaps the people who came in the 70's are not on the internet and therefore will not participate on this survey.
In any case,
Thanks!
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bafh
1) Raise (1971)
2) 1988
3) 2007 (only attend Memorial and funerals)
Time in: 1971 - 2007 (36) total years associated
1988 -2007 (21) years baptized
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JeffT
Converted
1973 age 21
1989 (completely, had not been in a KH for almost a year)
16 years in
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Village Idiot
1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?
Converted.
2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)
14 or 15 years old in 1973 or 1974.
3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)
December of 1980.
Total years in between baptism and apostate d'fing, 8 years.
I was miserable in the last few years and would not have even lasted that long if I had read the old literature that I desperately wanted to collect (I was simply curious and sort of a collector of things).