The cult of JW apostates is a worldwide phenomenon that keeps growing. Unlike their counterparts it takes very little to recruit new members. While the JWs spend thousands of hours in making a new convert it only takes a moment to get someone to open their eyes and wake up from the social hypnosis the JWs induced upon them.
There is no legal vow an apostate needs to take. In fact nothing is required to join, and many apostates have infiltrated the ranks of JWs to the very top. This of course makes the JW leadership paranoid and puts them back into the McCarthy era. By some estimates apostates outnumber JWs, the problem in verifying the facts is that apostates are not required to turn in time cards.
Like their JW counterparts apostates have their motivation and agenda to congregate.
They join to do among other things the following:
1. Acknowledge each other’s experience and witness the atrocities many suffered at the hands of their “brothers”
2. Give an encouraging word or two at times to those that are depressed and in pain of leaving or being dfed
3. Poke fun at themselves and their counterparts for all the silly things they did
4. Vent their anger and rage at apostates wannabees and each other from time to time
5. Share common past experiences
6. Keep track of former friends and acquaintances
7. Help each other out by sharing their quest to find spirituality devoid of dogma
8. Keep up with current events related to their counterparts
9. Aid in exposing to the rest of society the secrets of loss of life, sexual, emotional, mental, and spiritual abuse behind the walls of the Watchtower
10. Debate with apostates wannabees
11. Educate each other on the doctrinal flaws of current and past theology
12. Find fans for their newfound writing talent
13. Find a support group that is for the most part non judgmental and a good yardstick for individual progress
14. You can join this club but you can never leave, some leave for years but they always come back even just to lurk
All in all apostates are some of the best people anyone could meet. They are genuine in their love and compassion for each other and mankind. Their past experience as JWs is not in vain, they congregate like veterans of wars to chat about their battles and scars they wear proudly.
“Great spirits have always been violently opposed by mediocre minds.” A Einstein
Victor Escalante