While a JW, Did You Ever Let On That You Were "Going Apostate"?

minimus

I never did, although I did tell my former Bible student/tennis partner that the Bible does not condemn celebrating birthdays or recommend celebrating anniverseries. He told his JW brother who told his elders who told my PO. When the PO asked me about the conversation, I told him he asked me some questions and I truthfully answered., I said, "Nothing I said was wrong or incorrect". The PO indicated that to the elders, by the time the story got to them I could've sounded a little bit "apostate". I reiterated my comments. He just dropped it......What about you?

RichieRich

I've never really challenged the doctrines to anyone's face. Many young people confide with the other young people that they every intention of leaving the truth, but that just stays among us...

I guess I show my apostateness by attitude more than anything...

minimus

"Apostate attitudes"....I like it!

Honesty

I think I started showing up as a blinking red light on their poztate scope when I asked them why a certain Greek word was only translated in the New World Order Translation as 'obeisance' when it referred to Jesus and as 'worship' in all other instances and why did all the bible translations I had in my possession maintain consistency that the word was indeed properly rendered as 'worship'.

Scully

I was warned that the "first hints of apostasy" included complaining about how people in the congregation were treating you like crap. Oddly enough, it isn't "apostasy" for people in the congregation to treat you like crap, but it is "apostasy" to complain about being treated like crap.

Who the hell are they kidding?

minimus

Yup, the elders would start watching you for that question.

GetBusyLiving

I always tried to make them think. Didn't work. I would get them to the point where they would say their little canned responses and then I would just stop talking, hoping to get them to realize how stupid what they were saying was just by my silence alone.

GBL

sf

"Going Apostate". I love it babe! LOL

What is interesting in my case is that after I was disfellowshipped, I really basically had left that life behind me, after a stint of pain and bewilderment. I eventually started to just get on with my life. A pretty wild life, at that.

During a few years in AA, I had done an inventory on my life and found that I still had huge amounts of rage and sadness yet could not figure out where I was getting stuck in the process of recovery.

During that time my mom, a baptized jw, had had a relationship with my daughter. But that all changed when back in 1998 I read Rays book. [ EDITED TO INCLUDE ]: My world halted and all the anger and sadness made sense now. I was broken. On THAT day I "went Apostate". Before that, I was just a dfed jw for "conduct unbecoming a christian". Yet, while reading Rays book and starting my research on the net, I pulled in the reigns on their relationship. I was then dubbed by her "very apostate".

So, I've been "going Apostate" ever since. And see no time soon when that will change. YOU WISH TEDDY!! LOLOLOLOL

Good question mini.

sKally

minimus

I like being "very apostate"! LOL.....That's even worse than simply being "apostate".

sf

Ha. Yea mini. When she said it I felt a surge of power OVER her. It's hard to explain. Yet I felt like she could not intimidate me ever again.

It was actually taken as a compliment.

There is something about being one of your enemies worst nightmares. lolol

sKally, evil "Very Apostate" klass

While a JW, Did You Ever Let On That You Were "Going Apostate"?

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