Sirius Dogma

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  My life ... and how JWD came to be - Part 1

  by Simon in

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  a few people have asked how jwd came about and what my own story is and while i've posted it in bits and bobs, i've never tried to tell it as a story so here goes .... living in suburbia.

  i was born a jw to jw parents who had recently been missionaries / pioneers in ireland and taken literature into countries like spain when it was banned but who were now living in suburbia near to where they had both been brought up.

  we lived in a new semi-detached house in a cul-de-sac at the bottom of a hill - fantastic for building go-carts and racing down !

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  Thanks Simon
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  Apparently Janet J is starting a new trend....

  by Xena in

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  who next you ask???

  is there no shame???

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  uh.. I still look at Miss Piggies breast and think one thing...

  BACON!
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  Another survey from Lee

  by Lady Lee in

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  reading simon's post about how things used to be i started thinking about how the internet has changed things.

  many believe the internet and the freedom of information it contains will be the undoing of the wts.. when i was a jw, there were a few dfings but maybe one a year or even less.

  people drifted away but we really didn't pay a lot of attention unless it was a close friend.. in here we see new people coming in all the time.

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• What year did you leave?

1991 and 1996

• How old were you when you left?

17 and 22

• Did the internet have anything to do with your decision to leave?

nope

• If you left before you got on the internet what reading did you do about the WTS or cults that helped you make your decision?

nothing

• What was the one most important reason that helped you decide to leave (even if the decision was made for you through a DFing).

Getting objective opinions from people outside the organization, I realized that the little world I had grown up in was little more than a cult to anyone with a rational mind and a little education.

• If you left and still thought it was "the truth" what helped you change your mind?

Didn't really think it was the truth, but two years ago I read Ray Franz's book - Crisis of Conscience. It put to rest any thoughts that they were anything more than a bunch of liars