Which Way Did You Choose To Leave The Organization? (page 5)

LittleToe

I went out at the end of my last Public Talk (doh, figures that it was my last one, huh? ).
It was short, sharp and sweet. However it left my family distraught, and two years later I'm separated from my wife.
It was a high cost to pay, however I judged my circumstances as not being likely to work out any better if I'd faded.

Nonetheless, I do recommend fading (to reduce the cost on families), if an individual can stomach it. Better still just stop going and don't answer any questions of meet up with anyone (especially Elders).
Why play to their rules anymore??
Live your life, for it truly is worth living!!!

Maya:
You might want to work on the sympathy thing. Everyone has different circumstances, and must judge for themselves. IMHO some courses of action are far more brave that going out in a blaze of "glory"!

Caspian:
I suspect that Minimus is suspicious of you.
If what you have previously reported is true (wife left you / sister is closest relative and she's already left the borg / you don't believe in any of it anymore) then I'm at a loss to see what you have to lose.

I'm in no position to judge you, however, as I'm not in command of all the facts.
Good luck to ya...

badwillie

After only about 3 weeks of seeking out and reading "apostate" literature, I was publicly reproved at a Thursday night meeting for showing someone the UN's website where the WT was listed as an NGO.

.. that was my last meeting, I gave them the finger as I drove out the parking lot. Most of my family are JW's. We have not spoken in over 2 years. Totally their loss..in my opinion. I pity them now.

minimus

Little Toe, you're delicate.

cyber-sista

After only about 3 weeks of seeking out and reading "apostate" literature, I was publicly reproved at a Thursday night meeting for showing someone the UN's website where the WT was listed as an NGO.

Badwillie. How strange you could get reproved for just showing someone The UN site --it is not an apostate website afterall. I am on the FADE but it is starting to get to me a bit.

Maybe I need some advice from the apostate council here...I am still in touch with some JWs and one sis in there. They know I have been "stumbled and discouraged" but they don't know that I am now a total unbeliever in their beloved Org. When they try to "encourage" me I feel really upset and feel like telling them off....I almost killed myself because of what I experienced in there and it makes me really angry when people assume that I have just been "stumbled" by some well meaning, but imperfect elders- and that it is just my thinking on things and I should just study more and get back to the JW program and all would be well AAAAHHHHHH. I think I am entering a whole new stage of exiting. I AM PISSED OFF!!! (sorry, had to tell someone)

blondie

cyber-sista, this is a PBS moment, pearls before swine. Why give up your nebulous status as a fader, a discouraged inactive one, to tell them about something they won't value and will use to hurt you?

If you need to vent, come here, or PM me otay?

Blondie

caspian

Ross

I'm at a loss to see what you have to lose.

The point that I am trying to make is quite simple, everyones circumstances are all so different.

Is it really so that "one size fits all" when we leave the WT

We all have different things in life that we don't wish to lose, not just family but some may have friends that they have grown up with from a young age, there could be serious financial implications and so on. Because of WT policy, sometimes you "have to play the game" to completely stop your life from being fu**ed up worse then it is already.

I am amazed that Mini of all people isn't aware of this.....

As for his description of you being delicate Ross.............perhaps he is right, after all anyone born North Of Yorkshire has to be a big fairy

Max Divergent

Fast Fade... just stopped going. My deletion was announced then I went on a months vacation and just never, ever went near the place again.

When they visited, I stonewalled, played sick and they got the message.

Max

LifeAfter

I told them that in now way could I go on believing what they had taught me since age 4, since I could disprove much of it even with the New World Translation. They sent an elder to see me in Ocotber 1996: we spent two hours chasing each other around the proverbial mulberry bush before I told him he was as enslaved to the Watchtower and has to wake up like millions of others before THEY receive their come-uppance before Christ. He left my house - I left WT for good. I now have helped about twenty with their decision to get out as well. This cost me my family but Jesus said, that anyone who put family before Him was not fit for the Kingdom of God -maybe a litting hard hitting for some of you but I pulled no punches. In early summer of the next year they still tried to get to me but I warned them never to set fot near myself or wife or foster kids again. They now see me as apostate -good, because I go to my grave reaching out to any one I can to help free them from this heartless, cruel, back stabbing, self righteous, hypocritical, yet lost bunch of scared rabbits.

obiwan

........choose, yeah right, that's it! Choose, that's what I did.

LittleToe

Cas:

The point that I am trying to make is quite simple, everyones circumstances are all so different.

A point I've made so many times. I agree, ya soft Southern wazzock!!!

Which Way Did You Choose To Leave The Organization?

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