Also, we can't wear beards.......... Where does that come from?
I have many non-witness business aquaintances, and the beard is perfectly fine. Some are even salesmen!!!
What first gave you doubts ?
by rick1199 63 Replies latest jw experiences
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codeblue
Watching the Dateline Special 2 years ago about the pedophile problem within the WTBS....I only saw the last 10 minutes...and almost fell off my couch....It was a rather "defining moment"....I could see the hypocrisy...we were no different than the Catholic Church.
Also, the serious lack of love being displayed....and our unloving, unchristian "welcoming" visit when we relocated. The elders said they had to see our publisher cards, cause WE might be pedophiles...I sat horrified in my own home to be treated this way. I knew Jehovah or his son did not approve of such a shepherding visit.
Codeblue
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DaCheech
They would not talk to you, until they saw the card?
Please explain?
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Ciara
My first doubts came at 12 when I had questions about things I didn't understand in the bible. I talked to my dad (the P.O.) about it and found out that he didn't know the answers to my questions. So I took my questions to the C.O. Suprise!!! He didn't have any explanations either.
A week later when we had the district convention, I went up to the Gov. body member that was the special guest speaker and asked him. Well, my folks were absolutely mortified and I was told that I didn't have any faith and I should pray about my spiritual weakness. After that it was a slow slide toward disfellowshippment.
Ciara
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trumangirl
I had loose bricks in my wall of faith -
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trumangirl
Woops, I meant to go on and say these things:
- the Revelation book prophecies applied to conventions in the 1920s
- shunning
- feeling embarrassed by the magazines and the meetings (but this was just my bad attitude)
- not being able to explain to my 5 year-old why the Jehovah would destroy her school friends at Armageddon
- missing out on university in the 1980s, then they softened the policy and I'd missed out.
.... but the brick wall of faith didn't fall over till a relative put me on to Ewatchman. Then the whole wall fell over in one hit.
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exjdub
That is a difficult question. I NEVER believed that the prophecies in Revelation were fulfilled through the WTS, even though I was an MS at the time. There just was too much stretching to make it believable and too much fulfillment after the fact (trumpet blasts and the pouring of the bowls, etc.)
When the pedophile report aired on Dateline, that pretty much did it for me. By that time I had already been in active for 5 years or so. But still, I wondered if maybe it was my view that was wrong, maybe I was being too critical...maybe they did still have the Truth and I was being disloyal and not "waiting on Jehovah. The final blow that removed ANY doubt about JW's having the Truth:
The UN/NGO issue that I found out about on this site. End of story. I know the WTS is wicked and corrupt. Thank you JWD, you relieved the burden of indoctrination and guilt. Prior to that I knew I wasn't going back...but I thought I was going to be destroyed for it. Now I know that it is all hogwash!
exjdub
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DaCheech
How about every 1 creation day was 7,000 years.... But, a symbolic day is 1 year? (1914 prophecy)
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stillajwexelder
I read CoC
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Hauki
The big question I felt I never got a reasonable answer to and could not convincingly explain to others: Why should innocent children get sick and why should they die at Armageddon? When JW, I thought there must be a good reason I just cannot comprehend, of course. To realize that no Spirit of wisdom can be behind the Brooklyn guys: The silly unphysical theory in the old book "Is the Bible Really the Word of God?" for the Flood. The miserable "logic" of the "Creation" book. The "explanation" by the Society for the Book of Daniel, Ch.11 in particular.