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  When you were a JW, did anyone ask you a question that caused you to doubt?

  by Victorian sky in

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  no dotrinal question could shake me, but it was a personal one, out in service that started my initial doubts.

  a man asked me: 'are you really happy?

  ' i couldn't say, 'no, i'm miserable' but i thought it was a powerful question, anyone else asked something that really shook them?

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  mahju

  I am still a JW - technically. Anyway, there is one thing that bothered me a couple of months ago. I was at the Watchtower study on a Sunday and, as usual, I hadn't prepared ahead of time. But I read along for the first paragraph and the first sentence began with the thought 'Joe is a servant of Jehovah that found that, in order to preserve his faith, he had to quit his job'. I am paraphrasing of course. That first paragraph bothered me. Why didn't he just study harder and strengthen his faith through prayer? As I followed along I saw something I had never seen before: The entire article was fear based. I couldn't believe it. I had never seen it before. But as long as people are poor and uneducated, they are easier to control. So of course, the article continued by discouraging college and lucrative jobs. WOW.
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  MY MEMORIAL EXPERIENCE

  by cyber-sista in

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  strange no one came this year.

  no elders, pioneers or anyone to invite me to the memorial.

  i didn't go to the last 2 being that i haven't been to the meetings now for a few years.

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  mahju

  Hi, this is my first time writing on this website. I am very afraid. Of what? I don't know. I know that sounds weird, but you probably understand what I mean by it. Anyway, I was wondering about that young lady that was DF'd on the spot. I was considering asking the elders some questions but now I don't know if I should. My husband is a devout JW and I am no longer going to the meetings. I just want some answers to my questions. Real answers. Not cliches, like "gotta have faith", "Jehovah will reveal that when the time is right", or the "light got brighter". I've sincerely asked my husband these questions and he has said he doesn't want to discuss it because he feels I am trying to subvert his faith. Why can't I question anything? Please just hear out my ramblings. I have nobody in my life that can answer my questions, and I don't want to turn to emotional people on the internet that are pissed off at the religion. I am not pissed, I am confused. Is it true that I can be DF'd for questioning? That would destroy my family.