The Young Witness Exodus Continues

by metatron 69 Replies latest jw experiences

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  willyloman

  Southern California precinct reporting:

  The trend here is for young ones to grow up and disappear in droves. All of my kids = OUT. Wife and I = OUT. Checked an old phone list from the congo we were in when all the kids were good little dubs: Vast Majority of "Youths" = OUT.

  Recent congo: Almost all old folks; the few teenagers sit there bored out of their skulls with that vacant, "WTF am I doing here" glaze, and one by one they disappear. An elder, commenting on the loss of young ones in a talk, said it's as if there were a serial killer in the neighborhood, picking them off one by one. Of course, he mean "the devil" but I've come to believe the real killer is the WT message.
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  xjw_b12

  I have found out that EVERY SINGLE one of the young people my age in my old congregation are out. Not only are they out but they live lives as strippers, pimps, drug dealers, etc.

  Well there is a stereotype JWs love to hear. Of course if you lived a life as a stripper, pimp, drug dealer, etc before you became a JW that's OK.
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  Valis

  xjw..what if you could be a pimp, stripper AND a drug dealer...man that would be the life!

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer
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  what_Truth?

  Vallis,

  I have been all of the above at one point or other. It's not as glamorous as you might think.
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  Valis

  ya I know they are not glamorous, however I refuse to believe just because young people leave the borg they default to those lifestyles or whatever you wanna call em. When I left at 17 I had a job making lots of money, more than my parents...Kept that job till I was 20. Eheheh then the real fun started. Went on umemployment and travelled the US, worked at a rennaissance fair, follwed the Grateful Dead, camped in national forests for months at a time...wasn't until later years did I do the real stupid stuff...w00t!

  Sincerely,

  District Overbeer "Joker, Smoker, Midnight Toker" class
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  Balsam

  I, and my two sons are now all disfellowshipped Glory Be to living a life free of that organization. Their Dad is an active JW and he and his new wife continue the march to the Watchtower Societies drum. But we are free. I has been 3 1/2 years since I walked away from it, and then answered my sons questions and gradually they walked away too. So now my ex-husband can say his old family is dead to him. Its a good death, a blessed death to dy to that sick religion.

  In the congregation we used to attend all but about 3 young people still in high school continue on with the witnesses. It used to be the congregation was full of young people, but no more. Mainly just the ones over 40 and up still continuing worship of that organization.

  As the little ones continue growing they will leave too. Very very few young people stay or leave and come back. My sons and I will never return to the religion that killed their brother by their blood policy.
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  Valis

  balsam
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  what_Truth?

  Your right Vallis. The ones that don't become pimps, strippers, or drug dealers usually end up becoming white supremacists or self proclaimed witches and warlocks. Many of them are diagnosed with mental illnesses later on. The org is right when they talk about those who "turn away from Jehovah", although not for the reasons the GB says.
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  the_classicist

  So now my ex-husband can say his old family is dead to him.

  How sad. He must be a really evil person to not even care anymore about his family.

  I don't really know for sure how many "young witnesses" are left. I started fading at around 14, while occasionally going to memorials or an assembly (the assembly because that meant going on a vacation). At age 17, I was fully liberated from this destructive cult when I received the Sacrament of Baptism "In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit," not in the name of the Jehovah, the GB, and the Watchtower. It was a real intellectual journey.
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  GetBusyLiving

  :the few teenagers sit there bored out of their skulls with that vacant, "WTF am I doing here" glaze

  It's even worse when you see those same teenagers become adults and still sitting there with that messed up stare. My last stint before I dissed myself I would just look at my friends sometimes as we were all sitting there at the meetings. It was ghastly. They were just staring ahead at the speaker, all signs of life totally gone. There eyes were like looking into a void. Faces just blank and placid. What a waste of lives.