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by JustMeNonJDub 20 Replies latest jw friends
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Valis
People become JWs the same reason railiroad hobos sang this song...At the end of the journey everyone wants a paradise..
1. On a summer day
In the month of May
A burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane
Through the sugar cane
He was looking for his liking
As he roamed along
He sang a song
Of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay
For many a day
And he won't need any money
Chorus:
Oh the buzzin' of the bees
In the cigarette trees
Near the soda water fountain
At the lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
On the big rock candy mountain
2. There's a lake of gin
We can both jump in
And the handouts grow on bushes
In the new-mown hay
We can sleep all day
And the bars all have free lunches
Where the mail train stops
And there ain't no cops
And the folks are tender-hearted
Where you never change your socks
And you never throw rocks
And your hair is never parted
Chorus:3. Oh, a farmer and his son,
They were on the run
To the hay field they were bounding
Said the bum to the son,
"Why don't you come
To that big rock candy mountain?"
So the very next day
They hiked away,
The mileposts they were counting
But they never arrived
At the lemonade tide
On the big rock candy mountain
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Honesty
I was going through a divorce and my business was tied up in our estate. A friend had grown up as a JW, left and went back. He invited me to the Kingdom Hall and I got love bombed. The rest is a 15 year nightmare of Hell and cognitive dissonance until I became a loathsome apostate.
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kls
Mine and Kazar 's recruitment are exactly the same.
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the_classicist
I was born in it. So was my mum and her mum before that. I suspect my father joined to piss off his parents, seriously.
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JustMeNonJDub
bttt
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Effervescent
I was born into it, my grandmother on my fathers side was the first to convert. We weren't really active though until I was about 8 or so. From then on my father worked his way up the ladder to power and things got worse and worse in our family. At 17 I decided I couldn't believe the same things he told me I HAD to believe and escaped by leaving home and the state. I'm just glad I found the strength to do it. If I hadn't done it then Im afraid I would never had and I'd probably have swallowed a bottle of pills long ago.
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La Capra
I was born into it. At the end of 1967. About two years before I was born, my second brother was born and my mother decided to give up her teaching career to raise her children. My mother is a brilliant, well-educated, very articulate person. My father, on the other hand, while quite bright, was not well-educated, and enjoyed simple things like watching television and reading books about history, and is not very social or talkative.
About a year before I was born, my mother miscarried her third pregnancy, and I can only guess at her devastation-and all the self-loathing that goes with a failed pregnancy. She must have been depressed, and feeling very unimportant-just a mom with two toddler boys at home, and a husband who didn't challenge her intellect.
Then one day (probably about the time she got pregnant with me), an old man with not only a Swedish accent, but a speech impediment, knocked on her door, while she was up to her nose in dirty diapers and Cheerios, offering her a paradise (where miscarriages never happened) of perfection, and a pseudo-intellectual pursuit to fill & sustain her mental cravings. They got her when she was weak, insecure, and feeling unappreciated. I am sure she was love-bombed. And she was educated-a real catch for the dubs back then (and probably still now).
A few months after I was born my mom got baptised and is still, to this day, fully ensconced in the cult. I have one brother who is "sort of" in, but my other brother and I are out. My dad never joined. And for all the times he could have left us and gotten himself a normal life and family, he stayed. What character! I know that was a true parental sacrifice on his part - not to leave - when leaving could have been so easy.
And as for my mom, because she is married to an unbeliever, she will never be in "the in crowd" that she so longs to join, nearly 40 years, never being good enough. What a waste.
Shoshana
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stevenyc
I was born into it.
A few years before I was born my mother (2nd generation JDub) had an elder visit here at home. My father was not present, just mom, and my two bothers (5 and 6 at the time) and my sister(baby).
My mother was drifting away and hence the visit. The elder told my mom that if she turned her back on Jehovah that not only would she die at arrmagedon, but also her three children, pointing at each one individualy. Scared her enough to go back.
steve
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lilbit
I know my parents became JWs to save their marriage. I guess it worked they are still together. I dont think they will ever understand how badly they messed up their kids though