What made you "see the light"? (page 2)

Momofmany

It was my children. When my son had a study with someone from the hall. I was a single mom, and he was helping me with the boys. It was a mess, and I wound up cancelling his study. Then I had to explain why to my son. The elders were no help. They tried to guilt me into starting it up again. Then I wondered if I wanted my children always feeling guilty for things that are normal. That's when I started looking. I was told the truth wasn't my own, and I needed to get a firmer grasp, so I started with something simple. 607/1914. Ya know, get back to basics so to speak. Well, that kind of blew up in my face. Instead of it making me a good witness, it made me question more. I think the UN was a big factor in it too.

patio34

I'll bet my answer is unique:

The Disney movie Dinosaur.

Because violence in nature always bothered me and this movie was the final break in the dam.

Pat

ozziepost

1. Seeing the tyranny of fellow elders both in the congregations and at Bethel.

2. Realising that Jesus truly is Lord, not a created angel.

3. Realising that the WTS regards The Watchtower magazine as having equal authority with the Bible.

onacruse

Hello hubert

Without exaggerating, I have to say that it was joining JWD that made (or, perhaps a better term: "enabled") me "see the light."

I won't belabor y'all yet again with details about my 2-decade sojourn ...so suffice it so say that, in spite of the accumulating personal doubts, and in spite of the evidence that had been directly presented to me by others who had walked this path long before me: It was the incredible sense, after I joined this db, of "Wow, wow, wow!! I had no idea that so many people felt exactly like I did."

What consequently happened in me, especially for the first year, was at once a coalescence of the intellectual, activated by the emotional, and catalyzed by the social.

A poignant and unique episode in my life, which I will always fondly remember, along with shades of "Dang, was I a lucky bastard, or what?"

And this is what I consider to be the finest value of a discussion board, that sense of freedom to 'let down the guard' and, as a consequence, be enabled to learn and grow. I hope (and thoroughly expect) that JWD will always remain such a place.

Craigster

logansrun

Parasites of the small intestine. Venemous snakes. Masturbating chimpanzees. Plate tectonics.

That's what started it all.

B.

confusedjw

A Jeopardy question/answer of this nature

"In 587bc this Ancient city was destroyed by Nebechadnesser"

Answer: Jerusalem

onacruse

Bradley:

Masturbating chimpanzees.

Are you sure that you want to post such a disclosure of personal information on an open db???

Carmel

hey Craig! Bradley's spot on!!

Canibalistic black widows too!!

carm

seattleniceguy

in a new york bethel minute said:

then was completely satisfied after reading it directly from the UN's website...

Wow! That means that you were possibly one of the "firstfruits" from our letter-writing campaign that put that article on the UN website!

SNG

onacruse

Carmel:

Bradley's spot on!!

Ignore Bradley...he's all into this "schooling and learning things and shyte like that"...can't be trusted, I tell ya!

What made you "see the light"?

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