Question for those raised a JW
by New Worldly Translation 45 Replies latest jw friends
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freedom96
I was raised a witness, and I never knew anything appealing to the religion, and even less now. There is no way I ever would have become a witness.
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JustTickledPink
I don't think I would have as an adult become a JW. The religion makes no sense to me at all. I suppose that is why I left when I turned 19 and became an independant adult. Up until that point I did it out of obligation, although I really did BELIEVE it until I left.
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RichieRich
Definitely no. If you arent a witness from day one, I have no idea (no offense to the late-joiners) why you would leave not going to church at all or going when you want to for 5 meetings a week and service whenever you can. Plus if you go on Sundays only, you get holidays and you get to go to heaven while witnesses do all that work for what... an eternal camping trip?
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Mary
I was wondering if anybody feels like I do that if I hadn't been raised a JW I would never have embraced the religion.
Oh good god no!! While I believe I would have enjoyed going to another church, the second I found out that this religion demands you to go to 5 freaking meetings a week, and then banging on people's doors Saturday mornings, that would've been enough for me. Plus, the whole 1914 invisibility crap never sat right with me, even when I believed this was "the Truth". I'm the type of person that questions everything before I embrace it, and if I had started studying with Witnesses as an adult, it wouldn't have taken too long before I realized their doctrines were wacky, or for them to realize that I was asking too many of the wrong type of questions.
Even if I could have gotten past all this, I would never have accepted the whole shunning family members, or giving up birthdays and Christmas---no bloody way.
I can't even blame my parents because they were both raised in this religion too---so I guess I can blame my grandparents!!
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BluesBrother
Maybe - it would all depend on the timing of the contact, and the skill of the witness at my door . I am deep down an idealistic person and the dream of the world without fear and misery would certainly have appealed.
i have known some witnesses who could make even this baseless pipedream seem sooo plausible , and I might just have bought into it - especially if the "love bombing" and ready made friendships were evidently on offer
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talesin
My personhood is really connected to nature and the earth. It has always been my 'soul longing', my natural way of being. It's why I left the JW, because they were far too UNnatural for me to remain ... born into the wrong clan, I guess.
To answer your question, no. ;)
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Golf
In time, my 'spiritual' common sense would have kicked in and tell me it was a religion.
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Taylor S.
almost impossible to answer this one .....
but I doubt I'd would have been interested as an adult ...
know for sure as a teen I wouldn't have given a polyester suit clad nuisance on the corner even the benefit of eye contact, let alone enough conversation to convert me.
Beening born in, you just accept it as is ... like your last name. But I've been doubting religion, the bible, creation, since I've been a teen ... and that's with all those years of programming to the contrary.
The only way the dubs could have got me would have been through the use of a stun-gun and ample amounts of duct-tape.
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Tuesday
I doubt it but I guess anything's possible. Who knows what my life would've been like if I wasn't raised a witness. I'd like to think I'd be smarter.