your conversion into the Troof--what "did it" for you?

M.J.

Those of us who never signed on often find it extremely hard to truly understand how one could come to believe in the message from WTS as fact. What really "did it" for you? What attracted you? What sealed the deal?

95stormfront

Frankly, I was arrogant enough to think that I knew enough to be able to prove them wrong, but it seemed they did, at the time have an answer for everything. It was only later that I found that I wasn't asking the right questions, which is half the battle, and that I was ill equipped to recognise the way in which they very slyly divert to another subject altogether thereby totally sidesteping questions and issues who's answers prove to be an embarrassment for them.

Now I know better.

Know your material, their potential objections, and above all keep a JW on point not allowing them to deviate in any way, and any debate with them can be won as their doctrine and what they believe has more holes in it than a piece of swiss cheese.

gaybeat

I was forced in, and didn't really understand it at the time. It went like this.

I went to a Book Study for the first time.
After it finished.

Elder: So would you like to do a Bible Study?

Me: Oh nooo no thanks.

MOM: YES i THINK HE SHOULD. Yes he will do it.

Elder: What times are you available

Me: Umm noo

MOM: You can do it after school...

And thats how i was forced in.

AK - Jeff

I was 'captured' at a particularly vunerable time in my mental growth. I was just under school age when Mom started to study with the witnesses. I had nothing to compare it with, and I grew up thinking it was fortuitious that I came under the wing of Mom at such an early age. I swallowed and they just kept feeding me. Eventually, I was the one who took to the 'truth'. I stuck to my guns all thru school -and then all thru life. I was like an eagle being fed by chickens - I just went along and clucked and kackled. I always wondered what those soaring birds in the sky were - then one day I found I could fly away. So I did! But I was in the late forties by then.

Cults will do that to one sometimes.

Jeff

Darth Yhwh

In a word....Birth!

I know, this thread is for people who convirted to TWBTS of their own free will. I just had to throw this in there.

Joel Wideman

My mother joined because she had doubts about the Trinity doctrine. Also, she's crazy.

fairchild

I met the JWs when they came knocking on my door when I was in college. Before I knew what was happening, I was having a weekly bible study. I became very close friends with the JW couple who conducted the study, started babysitting their kids at regular times, etc.. They were both very happy individuals, and they were a happy couple together. Since I got to know them quite well, I also realized that their happiness was genuine. I started to believe that their happiness resulted from being a JW. They taught me things I had never heard before, like that the world was being ruled by Satan and that explained all the evil. Before that, I never understood why there was so much suffering around me, and satan ruling the world seemed like the best explanation I had ever heard. I always had a hard time with the trinity, and to my surprise, they told me that there was no such thing. I honestly believed that I had found "the truth". The happiness only lasted a short while. Soon the pressure came. More meetings, more study, more this, more that..

Lady Lee

My situation is a bit odd

I was first introduced to the JWs when I was 11 and my mother started studyiing. During the year I lived with my mother I had started going out in service and was doing all the things I needed to do to get some positive attention.

Then I was sent into foster care for 3 years at the recommendation of the elders after my mother caught her common-law husband sexually abusing me

In fooster care I had no contact with the JWs or my mother. Then when I turned 16 I went back to live with her. The same day I arrived we went to a meeting and I was love bombed. To a young person who had lost averything so many times and had been abused and abandoned so many times the love bombing was an aphrodisiac

I again fell into a pattern of doing whatever I could to please others especially my mother

Within a year I was baptized.

anewme

I was a very unhappy teen. Very disillusioned by the world at that time.....the late 60s and early 70s.
I was a good catholic girl who once entertained the idea of joining a convent. I immersed myself in the symphony as a way of hiding from the world. But even there amidst outstanding violinists and singers there was drugs and immorality and degradation. I prayed and prayed at 17 to find the true God and his people.
In no time at all I met a young woman at my new high school who introduced herself to me as a JW. She had spent her summer praying for a Bible Study so she could pioneer while a senior.

To learn of an end of unhappiness on the earth and a return to paradisaic conditions was a real draw for me. To learn God had a name was wonderful. I enjoyed the extra Bible Study knowledge we got on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights. I was thirsty for all the little details of Bible knowledge. In my spare time I read the Aid To Bible Understanding. I enjoyed the calm and peace at the meetings at the kingdom hall.

I went through alot of family hatred to become a witness. I got kicked out of my home and disinherited at 18.
I went to live with witnesses who got me a job and I pioneered.

I was very happy to be one of Jehovahs Witnesses.

What went wrong is another story.

ButtLight

I was born into it, I had no choice.

your conversion into the Troof--what "did it" for you?

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