He's absolutely right! Everyone on this board is a thin skinned fornicating queer
According to one JW there can only be 1 of 3 reasons why you left.
by Bonsai 54 Replies latest jw experiences
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Spiral
We've heard that reasoning from the relatives lately.
It's all an excuse because they don't want to see reality - nothing about the bOrg makes sense. It's all a joke, and some people DO see through it.
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scratchme1010
Let's see...
...The vast majority of those who leave the truth do it for one of three reasons:
1). They want to go out and fornicate, or are already fornicating, get caught and leave.
Checked.
2). They have homosexual desires and finally go out and decide to act on those desires.
Double checked - actually, I "acted on my desires" while I was still in (oh, the brothers...) - multiple checked.
3). They've been stumbled and their pride pushes them out."
BS. - Not checked.
Obviously, they are in complete denial about many of the real reasons why people leave.
I remember what I said to a former friend who was a JW and he was also my coworker. He asked me why I wasn't attending meetings anymore. My reply was "because bad associations spoil good habits".
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Bonsai
I told him I left because I couldn't imagine raising kids in a Pharisaical atmosphere where I may be expected to shun my own kids or deny them life-saving medical treatment. He rolled his eyes and said I belonged in category #3: Bitten by pride.
What's pride got to do with wanting to protect your kids from a harmful religion that alienates its young ones from normal society, then ostracizes them when they don't do every little thing the mother org. asks them to do?
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Disassociated Lady 2
Why is it always about sex with those people...there is so much more to life!! >:-( x
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never a jw
I never left, because I was never in, but my view of the religion started a dramatic U turn the moment I typed Jehovah's Witnesses in the Google search engine. It went from positive to very, very negative.
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Disassociated Lady 2
After being interrogated by two elders who refused to believe I was not having a sexual relationship with anyone I never returned and because I would not attend a judicial hearing after the aggressive way they were with me. I have been disfellowshipped by them as they do not believe I am not doing in reality the things they "wet dream" about. Pass the nutcrackers I know just what to do with them!! ;-) x
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Tapioca
I have to agree with JeffT. Who has done a qualitative/quantitative study of ex-JWs? From what I've seen on everyone else's post---and from my own experience (and that of my friends)---the anecdotal evidence points to other reasons for motivation to leave the borg. Maybe sexual repression and pride are catalysts for the change, but the reasons for the change involve character and morals and deeply held life-views. We feel a great freedom in following our own moral compass rather than simply blindly obeying old white men who have told us that they represent the creator (ha!).
Sometimes I think that people don't even know the reasons they leave, well, at least not at first. This would make an excellent topic for a doctoral dissertation, or a master's thesis in organizational behavior, yes? After the research, then we could identify which motivations seem to appear more often than any others. Maybe even do a longitudinal study, i.e. follow several people for many years. I'll bet that would be some kind of paper!
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OnTheWayOut
" The vast majority of those who leave the truth do it for one of three reasons:
1). They want to go out and fornicate, or are already fornicating, get caught and leave.
2). They have homosexual desires and finally go out and decide to act on those desires.
3). They've been stumbled and their pride pushes them out."Don't forget the 4th one.
4] They are too lazy to do the door-to-door work.
They rumored that it was #3 for me. I suppose learning the truth about the truth can stumble one out, but pride wasn't part of it for me. -
Chook
My problem lies with the whole concept that they called it the " truth" . I believed it was the truth. Once I established that it wasn't 100% truth, then I knew they couldn't be called " in the truth". To me it became a percentage game if Catholics were 50% , Quaker 40% and JW 75% . I came to conclusion that God is not in agreement with a religion that persists with at a minimum 25% family destroying bullshit. In a court case if a witness lies 25% of time then they are concidered an unreliable witness and ALL their statements have to be disregarded. No judge in an earthly court would conclude that their words are reliable.