My last meeting was memorial 2003..........before that it was memorial 2002.........before that about a half dozen meetings in 2001 and 2002.
But my fade began a few years before. (no more guilt)
HappyDad
SURVEY: How Long Have You Been Out Of The "Truth"?
by minimus 45 Replies latest jw friends
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HeyNow!
Faded from meetings in 1990, last Memorial in 1999, came to realise how wrong it all is in early 2003..
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iiz2cool
Yesterday was the first anniversary of my disassociation!!!
I forgot to celebrate. I'll have to make up for it on the weekend!
Walter
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Emma
I've been out about ten years. I wish I'd noted the last meeting; it was like fleeing a burning, collapsing building. I never looked back!
Emma
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Nosferatu
Close to 8 years now.
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dorothy
Still strandling the fence. Can't deny the entertainment value of sitting in a Kingdom Hall trying to keep a straight face after all the things I've read here.
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Undecided
That's a hard question for me. I can't remember exactly. I don't think I have been in service for 30 or more years. I went to the memorials for many years after leaving. My mind hasn't been free of the dogma until I read C of C, about three or four years ago. I have been out of the congregation, not feeling a part of it for 30 years.
Ken P.
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morty
It will be 18 years next month and I still have issues about the cult sometimes....
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iiz2cool
Can't deny the entertainment value of sitting in a Kingdom Hall trying to keep a straight face after all the things I've read here.
Wow! How do you do it??? I tried that for a while, but I always found myself either getting very angry or finding it almost impossible to keep a straight face. I'm not very good at hiding how I feel about something, so I often had elders coming to me and asking "what's wrong?" or "what's so funny?"
I soon discovered that painkillers helped. When they ran out I stopped going.
Walter
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glitter
Memorial 2000. Before that it was Memorial 1999 - then before that it was a couple of months previously when I attended the bookstudy for a while in another neighbourhood (boundary change and mum didn't get on with the new bookstudy host *at all* from way back!). Hadn't been to a Sunday meeting since about 1995 and hadn't been to a Service meeting since... god knows, maybe since about 1993, even then it was infequent (finished late, lived a bus-ride away from the KH, school in the morning, etc)
Still 100% believed it though - until I saw Panorama, and eventaully found this place - then it all crumbled in one go.