Initially because I could not believe any "god" would expect a parent to feel sickened and guilty for allowing their own offspring to ACTIVATE THEIR OWN BRAIN, and that that human would perhaps think and want to believe differently than me. I didn't need a dead kid and forcing kids to go to meetings is just insane and driving all in that direction. I also would not sit and have pounded into my head at each meeting the topics of "death and destruction and judgement" of all mankind but JW's any longer. I informed the elders I would go running and screaming out of the kingdum hall if I heard it expressed one more time.
Why did you leave?
by greendawn 43 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Narkissos
I didn't leave, I was df'd. But why did I put myself, very consciously, in the situation to be df'd?
In two words:
Love made the whole thing meaningless to me.
I read the NT again, and faith led me to the clash.
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xjwms
Guilt, fault and blame. Elders have way too much control. The FILES. Ah yes, the files are always there.
Elders who just don't want you there, will make it work so you won't be. That will always happen, even it they have to start the gossip. That was me.
I never knew many of my family members, non JW's. I do now. When my cousin buried her 25 year old daughter due to cancer, and I never knew them, I asked after the death, ... Where was I all these years, caring for those in the cong., who did'nt care about me.
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fleaman uk
Firstly for purely selfish reasons..i wanted some fun for the first time in my life.
Secondly the nagging in my head regarding the Generation change in 1995 was a huge factor too.
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Seeker4
Yeah, there were tons of reasons similar to what everyone here has written, but the turning point for me after +30 years was the change of the 1914 generation in the mid-90s. That gave me the permission I needed to look into all the other questions I had accumulated over the years about the WTS and the Bible. The entire Witness belief system collapsed like a house of cards after doing a few weeks of research.
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hopelesslystained
becase my children and myself were invisible to jw family and congregation. because i felt intense sadness every time i entered the hall, due to the invisability and experience.
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Bonnie_Clyde
The lack of love. They put preaching ahead of showing loving concern for the needs of the sick and elderly. I saw that clearly when I was taking care of my mother.
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Reefton Jack
Because I could not keep up the charade anymore i.e. that only the WTS had THE TRUTH - when, in fact they were wrong about just about everything!
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rocketman
If I were to put it to a one-word answer, it would be: extremism.
The WTS and the jw religion is in my view extreme in virtually every facet of life. They are today's Pharisees.
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bvet
I grew up with an intense love of reading. I don't think I have to tell you how absolutely boring most JW material is. By the age of thirteen I was reading anything I could sneek into the house. A friendly teacher at school turned me on to C.S. Lewis. Reading Mere Christianity did it for me. I told my family (at age 14) that I quit a week after I finished that book.