by xjw_b12 63 Replies latest jw friends
Seeing this is the 5th anniversary of JWD, I was curious as to how many who still post here, were dyed in the wool JWs, but later sucumbed to "the truth about the truth"
OR
Were an active/semi-active JW, and this site and others were enough to convince you that your doubts had substance.
I first stumbled on the site when I was an active JW in Sept 2002 and my first reaction was something like:
OMG!!!!!! DEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMUUUUUNNNNNZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!
I immediately closed my browser and resumed playing solitaire. It didn't help - the demunz had already invaded my feeble mind and I was doomed to be an apostate?.
Four months later I was inactive, and I finally joined the site in May 2003, and I DA'd in June. Marriage went down the toilet 6 months later.
It's been a helluva ride.
Walter
THEN: Active JW with doubts.
NOW: Active JW with malice.
No. I was looking for ways to get Nina and the kids out
I was and still am a 'spiritually weak' JW.
Aspiring to be an disassociated ex-JW soon.
DY
I was sorta active, but this site has helped me answer some good questions.
I was out, pretty much looking for a new more active board to post on. This is definetly the most active of the boards, and no racial, anti-semetic diatribes on here.
I was freshly inactive with tons of doubts when I started lurking here. Disassociated a couple months before I started posting. Now I usually visit every day when theres nothing to do at work.
GBL
Inactive JW with doubts. Not inactive because of doubts so much as inactive because the stress was too much. The doubts led to research and now I've been inactive for 2-3 years now. Pretty much completely faded. No elders visits or calls. Only the occasional family pressure.
then:i was a guilt ridden inactive jw who felt worthless and totally at fault for my doubts.
now.. i feel like maybe i'm not such a horrible person..it may just be a horrible religion.
