by Check_Your_Premises 20 Replies latest jw experiences
I have been an opposer for 3 months now, I have already taken out a Bible study by providing info by proxy.
I think I will put a notch in my Bible!
How about you all? How many? What methods have you used? How many people have you helped leave? How many people have you kept from joining?
Well I think I may have put something in a few peoples minds when I was at the Laundry mat (washing my duvet comforter). I saw the WT and Awake magazines on a table. I went mad ripped them all up showed everyone who was watching telling them don't ever read this Crap because it ruined my life! They seemed shocked yet smiled at me!
Brooke
I really wish I knew that exact number, but I am comfortable with the fact that I never will.
I do know that some on this board have thanked me because my website (http://quotes.watchtower.ca/) was useful to them when they had questions, as it provides a neutral place to study the WT's sordid past, by their own words.
One regular poster and former *ELDER* here told me in email that in addition to helping him to smell the coffee, he then used the info to get some other elders to exit.
That's the power of the internet: leverage!!! Why help one person exit, when you can help MILLIONS??? (raising my pinky finger to my mouth).
~Quotes, of the "Hollowed Out Volcano Layer" class
I helped one person leave the dubs, does that count? Then along came the internet...
I've talked to about 5-6 of people online that I believe I had a significant role in "stumbling", LOL. (Speaking of people I spent an extended amount of time talking to, not just a comment here or there on a forum.)
Then there are the untold millions (I wish! ) that have visited my website and read my posts on the dozens of forums I participate in...who have silently been discouraged from further contact with dubs....
think I will put a notch in my Bible!Lmao
They seemed shocked yet smiled at me!
Were you dressed like your avatar pic when you did this? Maybe there's another reason for the smiles, LOL!
Well being on this forum for a few years i hope i have helped some to not join or have helped some leave . I am not much on Bible knowledge so i leave that up to the pros here.
So i can't say how many i helped or even if i have but it would make life great if i had .
:I went mad ripped them all up showed everyone who was watching telling them don't ever read this Crap because it ruined my life! They seemed shocked yet smiled at me!
That is so funny Brooke. I always thought you were one of those crazy demon eyed apostates!
GBL
That is so funny Brooke. I always thought you were one of those crazy demon eyed apostates!
I am! No, I am some what normal they just got me at a Crazy Moment!
Were you dressed like your avatar pic when you did this? Maybe there's another reason for the smiles, LOL!
Yes, I was dressed all cute and I was having a fantastic hair day!
Brooke
I'm still working on helping my wife. There was also a girl in my class who either said she was a JW or her family was, but the way she was stating my wife was only DF'd because she couldn't live up to "their rules" leads me to believe she's a JW, herself. I wrote a letter in reply to hers explaining my feelings regarding my wife's DF'ing, the WT's obvious problems with interpreting the Bible, laying out numerous false prophecies and setting itself up as really the god of the org via their own literature that must be obeyed as if it was the voice of God rather than who's truly coming up with all their rules and changes. I explained Jesus said nobody comes to the Father but through him and asked where it mentions the org's involvement in that process, etc... Don't know if she read the full letter, but I'm hoping so!
Also, back in about '91, a JW man (I think around 50 yoa) came to my house 3 times to talk about religion. All I knew of the WT back then was they didn't believe in a hell and that Jesus was "a god." I don't know if this impressed him at all, but I compared Genesis 1 with John 1 and read numerous verses explaining hell and how the beast and false prophet (obviously human) were still shown as being in the lake of fire 1,000 years after being thrown in it at the time the devil himself is thrown into it, and it states they will be tormented day and night eternally, etc... By the end of the 3rd visit, the man left looking very down and almost looked confused. I was worrying about him, but if it wasn't him really thinking hard about what I said, maybe he was just really disappointed he couldn't get a kid like me back then into the org. I've always wondered what he was thinking when he left that last time, and he seemed like a genuinely good guy.
