How Many Here Left The Organization? How Many Got Kicked Out?? (page 6)

MerryMagdalene

A bit of both for me... I left very quietly, could no longer buy da NWT, da WTBTS, nor da BS. Didn't make a fuss about it. Didn't try to make anybody else doubt or leave. Quit all fellowship except for lingering ties with much-loved JW family members. Several years later after a traumatic car accident, recuperation at my JW mother's house, then a d-i-v-o-r-c-e, three of the big boys (whom I had known since childhood) came to my tiny apartment and questioned me about my current beliefs and practices, fearing I was going to be a bad influence on members whom I no longer even had any contact with. I answered their questions honestly, except for one which I said was none of their business. They insisted it was their business then asked me to write a letter to the congregation DAing myself. I meekly consented but, after thinking it over, wrote them a letter telling them instead exactly why I did not wish to DA myself (love of my family, etc.) and assuring them that I would do nothing to influence the rest of their flock. By that time I had moved to a different town and thought I might be "safe" from purging, but they distance-DFed me any way. I don't know what official reason they gave for it, but my mother was devastated and everyone (but her) blames me. I'm only just now beginning to discover how much anger I stuffed down inside. But beneath that? Freedom! Joy! Hope! Adventure! Healing!

Insomniac

I faded away. Sometimes I wish that I'd been more overt about it, made some sort of statement to people, but I just didn't want to deal with the fallout from that, so it was a semi-slow fade.

Love, Me

Left!

minimus

GOOD TO HAVE SO MANY NEW ONES HERE!!!!!

Mysterious

I left of my own free will..something I certainly didnt have as I was dragged into the organization since birth.

Black Sheep

Left, stage right.

nb-dfed

Left, hunted down several years later, kicked out

BoozeRunner

DF'd, and tried to return, but became disillusioned from being treated like less than a human being by PO, so I left, never to return.

Boozy

Terry

I had already left the organization. I stopped going to the Kingdom Hall. There wasn't anything at all there. It was an exercise in habit. It was a bad habit like picking my nose or trying to secretly pass gas without making that telltale sound.

But, I was called on the telephone to meet with the judicial committee.

So, I left and got kicked out too.

Why did I ever comply with the request to attend the judicial committee meeting? I didn't have to; there was no secret police arresting me.

It was just the habit. What habit? The habit TO OBEY.

See what it got me?

minimus

Terry, the lesson to be learned is----if you're out of the organization, you're no longer under their rules.

How Many Here Left The Organization? How Many Got Kicked Out??

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