Single Incident

by Paradise Found 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  Odrade

  Bleh, SFJim. What a disgusting story, that the "loving brothers" would use a movie to engage in a power struggle like that. They must have been already looking for a way to get you. I'm disgusted, but not surprised.

  For me, there were many things that made me leave, although at the time I didn't know I would never go back. I was just staying away from the meetings and feeling bad and guilty about it. The one specific thing that finally lifted the guilt for me, was finding out about the Mexico/Malawi incident. Also at the same time, I learned that the reason the JWs in Mexico were not allowed to sing and pray at the meetings was NOT because of persecution, but was due to legal manipulation so the WTS could own property.

  I remember very clearly talking about how the brothers were being persecuted and stopped from fully worshipping Jehovah in Mexico. I also remember clearly the night they made the announcement that the Mexican Government had "finally granted our Brothers in Mexico the freedom to worship Jehovah with song and prayer." We were ecstatic! It was such a victory for JWs that we finally had that freedom in Mexico.

  Later, after quitting the meetings, I found out that it was all legal b.s. that kept the mexican JWs from prayer. That it was the fault of the WTS, because they wanted to own property. That our OWN ORGANIZATION had hampered their expressions of praise and worship for MATERIALISTIC reasons. I was so angry, but that was the end of my guilt. Lies, lies, lies.

  I want to add: I'm the last person that anyone ever expected to leave the Org. I did everything by the book, carried it to its farthest application, and was a true believer. If I can get out, anyone can.

  Odrade
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  Nicolas

  For me, the shunning of my mother from both of my older sister was definitely something that made think a lot. That's when I discovered this sites and all the other nasty ;-) apostate sites
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  morty

  There was no single incident for my family..There were many,from The adultry acted out in front of impressionable youths.(young teens)The disgusting behaviour from SOME elders and the lack of respect shown to the young adults in the "borg".These are the three top reasons my parents left, and I was right behind them..Actually you could say I was the leader of that pack...I really rebeled badly till I got my moms and dads attention to leave that cult...Bottem line was me or the relegion..I was damn serious about them never seeing me again if they did not do something about what was going on...Needless to say....They made their point there,and got the hell out...To this day I have the most respect for my parants....My dad left first,then mom followed 3 -4 months later....Mom and dad went and got me and promised me they would never return.....My grandmother is still a dedicated dub,but never ever shunned any of us...(even though she is in the wrong for doing this)...We did those alot of "so called friends" but now that I am adult,I know they were not our friends......sorry I started going off topic......

  mortons68
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  blondie

  A pattern of lying by elders with deliberate knowledge they were lying.

  The straw that broke the camels back, lying about a child sexual abuse case (3rd time over 15 years).

  The WTS is corrupt. There are a few individuals that try to buck the tide....

  Blondie
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  Sassy

  my soon to be ex set me up with the elders regarding crap I never did last summer. (OK it was for stuff I did and was disciplined for a couple years ago but he is trying to make it look like it is current) and I just thought forget this. I am so sick and tired of having the only time they want to talk to you is when they think you need discipline. I know he couldn't have gotten me on anything but was only emotionally blackmailing me but just the same I did not want to deal with them and the minute I walk in a hall I will have to. I'd been away from meetings all year any way so it wasn't difficult to stay away. Once I made my choice, suddenly other things that should have caused doubts for me, surfaced. Sometimes I wonder how I could have been so blind.
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  Soledad

  this is something I have posted about a few times here

  I remember two specific times when I said to myself ?enough is enough?: the summer district assembly at Nassau Colliseum in 1996 and a time I was participating in field service shortly after the assembly. I somehow just woke up, so to speak, and looked around me and realized that at age 21 there was just no way I was going to spend the rest of my life living like this, sort of in a void.

  so as often as I revisit in my mind thoughts and feelings associated with wanting to leave JW-land I always come back to those two instances when I just said "enough."
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  Undecided

  I didn't really have anything anyone did to move me to quit, I just got tired of all the stuff I had to do and just said enough is too much. I didn't even think about it anymore untill I got on the net and then I learned the real TRUTH.

  Ken P.
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  Athanasius

  In my case there wasn't a single incident, but rather a series. It began in 1981 when I was researching background material for a public talk that I was preparing on the Trinity. I had an extensive personal library which included many book on Christianity and early Christian history. Since the Watch Tower writers often quoted from these works by nonJW authors it didn't seem wrong to include them among my reading material. However, it soon became evident to me that the Society's writing department was engaged in scholastic dishonesty.

  Also in that same year the Organization became much more oppressive. The freedoms that were gained in the 1970s during Watch Tower Vatican II were abolished shortly after Raymond Franz was removed from the GB. I saw a lot of people hurt by these changes. So by the summer of 1984 I had had enough 1984 and walked away from the JWs.
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  rocketman

  So many incidents, so little time. I'll sum it up in one sentence:

  ".....before the generation that saw the events of 1914 passes away".
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  Stacy Smith

  No single incident here either. It was basically the lack of love shown within the organization coupled with the huge amount of gossip that surrounded me. The gossip was the final straw for my parents and I left with them.