by PaulJ 33 Replies latest jw friends
I had googled JW, and found Randy's site with the listing of names ... spent hours and hours going through it, and found my cousin. :) Then, I googled again, and there it was - Jehovahs-witness.com - I read for a few days, and realized that after decades on my own, I had found a group of people who were just like me (well, sort of).
Hesitantly, I signed up ('net noob, felt weird putting myself 'out there'), and the rest is herstory!
tal
JWD is the first "real" "NEW LIGHT" I've seen since joining The Cult.
u/d (of the hook, line and sinker class)
i came here from beyondjw.com
i only looked briefly. i already knew what apostates were all about by simple extrapolation after doing a bunch of research by myself. so nothing on this site, even the extreme stuff, really surprised me.
it wasn't until after i had made sense of everything that i needed to make sense of, and DA'd myself, that i started to feel lonely. and that's when i remembered "simon's board" and Timothy Campbell put it.
i went to a couple of other ex-jw boards, but it seemed like this one had the highest population of "people like me". and then after posting a bit, i noticed GBL's avatar (the one of his face, silly), and realized that he was a long lost associate of mine (was actually more friends with my sister, but we did go to a Modest Mouse concert whilst in the borg), from the borg days. and then i thought that if a smart guy like that is here, then perhaps i should stick around and learn something.
of course, since then i have ended up totally addicted to this great board.
TS
I was struggling, and I was told, "You never made the truth your own" So I started at the basics. I thought, ok, I love math, it's my strong suit, so I will go over the 607/1914 thing. So I googled info on 607, and that was the begining of the end. I was directed to this site, and it's getting better every day.
I used to be a poster at a pro-JW board when somebody from this board spammed the site I used to post at (I think his name started with an S). I knew back then it was apostate rubbish and I left it alone. 3 years later, I found myself here.
I was using Google to find the CNN interview transcript on the sexual abuse coverup, when I came across several websites dedicated to JW's. I had been out over 10 years and I never ever wanted to associate, speak with, or read anything dub related, it was part of my painful and emabarrassing past, that I desperately wanted to forget. I clicked on the links and realized they were "apostate" websites, to my surprise I had a slight twinge of guilt for reading apostate propaganda, as I read through my stomach turned, I could not believe my eyes, all the pain and suffering that the WT had inflicted on so many people. Then came the 607 and UN information. I was literally glued to the PC for days. I was partly relieved to see that I wasn't the only one with a screwed up childhood, but sick at the thought of my parents and 6 million others believing this shit.
DL76
I had been disfellowshipped for years. Like many others here I got on this site accidentally looking for Jehovah's Witnesses. I was trying to locate the convention grounds in order to attend. I inadvertently got onto Free Minds, Inc. and from there to here. I was shocked at what I read! I lurked for a few months and then posted.
What Dragonlady said----that's pretty much how it happened for me and what my reaction was.
I had watched the Panorama show on JWs and child molestation cover-ups and, even though I hadn't been a JW for some years, I was shocked and horrified. I later went on the internet to find Silent Lambs and look for an update on court cases and such. Their site was down and I ended up here via Freeminds.
What an amazing journey of discovery, soul-searching, and connecting with others!!! It's helped me work through issues I didn't even realise were still affecting me.
Thanks again, Simon. I know more than one person who has said that finding this site has been an actual life-saver for them.
~Merry
I was struggling, and I was told, "You never made the truth your own" So I started at the basics. I thought, ok, I love math, it's my strong suit, so I will go over the 607/1914 thing. So I googled info on 607, and that was the begining of the end. I was directed to this site, and it's getting better every day.
Momofmany - that is amazing! That is almost precisely how it went for me. My thought was 'what could be wrong with doing research on the Bible's chronology?' - I could not find a thing except 'apostate' attacks on 607. I went to some history sites - they never mentioned 607. I finally came across some life stories - prob on links to Randy's site, but not sure. I was willing to read them. Then I found silent lambs. Boldness finally let me look at some other sites - I think the whole deal took me a year before I found this site. Glad I did! Jeff
I was in a small town public library at a computer and typed "Jehovah's Witnesses" in the search engine.
I was soooo nervous, so frightened that someone would see me, and just about had a coronary when a JW actually walked through the library while I was visiting the old H2O site.
BUT...what a liberation, for the first time in my life, to understand that I wasn't the only one that had serious doubts about some of the JW teachings. To know I wasn't just a too proud and too arrogant brother. That there were all sorts of intelligent JWs and ex-JWs who were struggling with exactly the same things I was.
I'd found my home.
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