After leaving a controlling sect, it?s normal to want to live ?freedom?. What did you do to show that you were no longer under the influence of the Watchtower? Did you grow a beard, start having sex with whoever, start drinking, start gambling?
How rebellious did you get after leaving?
by JH 38 Replies latest jw friends
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kwintestal
Yes
Kwin
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JH
I just love letting my whiskers grow and then meeting a witness at the market
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Pole
I commit spiritual adultery on a daily basis.
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avishai
Grew my hair long. The dumbest thing i did to "show everyone that I was no longer a dub" was take up smoking. It's effective, yet stupid.
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kitties_and_horses_oh_my!
Sex (no elaboration sorry lol), drinking, smoking occasional things hehe, cussing - basically enjoying life. Sometimes I catch myself with residual guilt, but it's fading. Old dub morals die hard.
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AloneinOh
Serious partying!
Hairy buffalo parties, gallons of Bacardi and JD, smoke weed, acid, shrooms, strip clubs, rock concerts, smoke cigs,....you name it. There wasn't a whole heck of a lot that I didn't try once. Good thing I grew up....probably be dead if I hadn't.
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under74
I rebelled before I left...
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eyeslice
Not at all - they all think I am going back soon!
I am thinking of growing a beard - though I did grow one once on holiday and come back and take the Ministry School and a few meeting parts for a week or two after. It didn't go down too well amounst the 'right wingers'.
Eyeslice
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blondie
No beard--physically incapable
No smoking--not a JW decision...a health decision....mine and others
Gambling--boring
Married and happy---no desire to cheat on my spouse to "prove a point"
Serious partying--don't enjoy hangovers--alcoholic family dynamic
Rather than choosing to do just the opposite of what the WTS taught, I try to make each change a personal choice with knowledge of how it affects me and others. I would hate to think that I changed from doing everything because the WTS said to to doing nothing the WTS said just because they said to.
Blondie