who escapes more often, those born into it or adult converts? (page 4)

Satanus

I was raised in it since i can remember.

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MerryMagdalene

I was born in.

Had doubts all through my childhood which my mother would try to pacify by saying God would make it all clear, in due time, to those who stayed close to his organization.

Allowed myself to be pressured into being baptized even though my doubts and questions remained insufficiently answered and my spiritual longings went unfulfilled.

Faded in my early twenties.

~Merry

Momofmany

My Mom started studying, and attending meetings when I was 14. Went from stict Catholic to JW.

My mom started studying when I was 14.
Before that, my parents were hippies and into drugs, free love, etc... My childhood was pretty wild. We lived in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love".
My parents divorced when I was 9 and my mom became very isolated and paranoid. She was unhappy and "searching" for something to help her cope. A neighbor befriended her and told her about the "truth". She became a devoted dub right away and forced me and my siblings to study.
I resisted for a year, but I had no place else to go. I was baptized at 15 after being sucked in by the love bombing. Then I grew up. I had always had doubts and I hated field service. I just didn't believe it enough to convince others. I wanted to go to college and I definitely could not see myself being in wifely submission to some icky dub boy. (no offense to all you former icky dub boys)
After graduating from High School I got a job and was exposed to "worldlings". I worked and saved in order to move out. I think I was 22 when I finally moved to a different town and faded. My mother was devastated.

Eva

googlemagoogle

born into it. though not publicly escaped yet.

when you grow up in the "truth", you probably are more likely to see all the hypocrisy going on behind the scenes. there are also a lot of never answered questions that pile up. the only chance to go on is dismissing those questions, but that does not work for all too long.

i could bite my bum to be so dumb to get baptized - i actually got baptized becaues of a girl i was going out with back then. we were baptized together and were dating for a year or so. then she was going "spiritually mature" and dropped me (because of my bad music). she started pioneering and shortly after that she was DFed for immorality. stupid girl. could have stayed with me in the first place.

DannyBloem

hard to say who escapes more often

1) some born into the 'truth' has to make his own choice later. Many of them do not stay. but the pressure of not leaving is bigger

2) outsiders who come into the 'truth' do this on purpose, (for whatever reason), but have less presure of leaving

I think that people born into the truth will leave more often. I think it is as higher then 50% (including the once that never get baptized)

for me: born in the borg. left much to late. (not out yet in flesh)

mtbatoon

I was born in and left at 16 as soon as the subject of baptism came up, in hindsight one of the best things I've ever done. There were certain things that didn't scan right for me but they were mostly with the bibble rather than the WTS. I'd like to say that I thought long and hard, did lots of study and asked elders probing questions but hamstrbait's got my number, bored and horny teenager.

prophecor

I'm still escaping. It's a long, slow process. A lot harder than I thought it was gonna' be. I came in from the outside, so I don't have the memories or the history like those who've been raised in the truth. It can still be difficult from time to time. I still feel like parts of it are the truth. The predicting the future, the moral high ground that they ascribe to which can make serving God, feel so correct.

Then I look at the other side of the street. The destruction of the family through disfellowshipment. The negative wishing for and wanting for the world to correspond with the nightmare. The earthquakes, the death and destruction seen everyday on the news, " Yep, the end of the system is sure getting nearer."

The robotic, drone type, emotionless protective bubble that seemingly shields you from the pain of seeing your loved ones die, physically or spiritually. To regard those ones as good as dead, who've been disfellowshipped. It should be a requirement that one be well within years, at least 18 years old before baptism is allowed. The suffering as a teen will cause so many to get themselves involved in problematic behaviour.

homesteader

adult convert for the record.

zev

raised in it.

spent 40 years in slavery to the borg.

freed myself in dec 2001

disassociated in march of 2002

and moving on......

who escapes more often, those born into it or adult converts?