By all means leave. Don't let them fool you into thinking there's nowhere else to go. Take a look around here for awhile and read the experiences of those who escaped.
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Should I leave the WTS?
by HamiltonPeppers inafter hearing the coverups and scandals, im thinking about leaving the wts for good.
while reading all of these coverups, i felt like my wife just cheated on me with my brother.
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Did you ever think you'd stop being one of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by sandy ini'm sure this question has been asked before .
i've come a long way in my thinking.
a very long way!
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Thanks for the encouragment LHG. Also thanks to Kaytee. I'd heard that story before but, of course, never figured it applied to me. After all, I was one of the ones who questioned their religion of birth and left it. (God I was gullible!)
Anyway, I had some what of a breakthrough on the whole god issue. I think it's possible to love god after leaving that cult. Today I finally had a prayer that was free of all the guilt and accusations from my subconscious mind. I'm starting to realize that my bible trained conscience was nothing more than the result of brainwashing, pure and simple. Feeling guilty for not preaching enough was from having been brainwashed and not god's opinion on the matter. All the things that I've felt guilty about were from MY JW BRAINWASHED brain and not from god. I can see myself loving him again. I'm still new at this and I know I have a lot of work to get that crap out of my head permanently, but I think I'm going to get through this and become a force to help others escape.
A couple months ago I'd decided I wanted to find a charity I could believe in. I like working with the elderly and I have some experience with alzheimer's so I thought I might look for something in that vein, but now I'm convinced that I need to find away to add to the throngs who are exposing the wt for what it is. It may not be the most important thing that needs to be done, but I think it's something I can be passionate about.
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Making fun of the twins
by MsMcDucket inas many of you know, my twin daughters are jehovah's witnesses.
they refused to go to their grandmother's funeral last saturday.
this tuesday, they needed a co-signer for a car; so they called their dad.
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Who'd of thought all those years ago when we were studying about how the truth would set us free that we wouldn't need be set free if we weren't studying "the truth" in the first place?
Anyway, way to go. Even if they didn't want to go to the funeral you'd think they would at least jump for joy because now their grandma qualifies for a resurrection rather than destruction.
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October Announcement
by loosie ini must have missed it.
probably because i don't go anymore....lol.
what was the big announcement for october?.
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Big, Important October Message:
From this date forward, let it be known that we, the governing body of jehoover's witlesses do hereby declare that every october we will have an important message even if we have nothing to say just to keep our mortified pissuants on their toes. Thank you for your time.
Your [imitation] christian brothers in brooklyn.
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What awaits the next JW to come to my door........
by zev inyes, those in the lincoln rhode island congregation will have ample warning.....
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Has anyone ever faked liked they were knocking or ringing the doorbell when they were at the door because pissing people off in the morning wasnt fun at all!
Not me, nope, I was one of the jerks that KNEW my message was more important than anything else you had to do.
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Someone may benefit from this..regarding the Expos'es of the organization
by Lady Liberty inhello all.... i hope this day finds you all healthy, and happy.
i came acrossed some notes i made many months ago when i was going through the research phase of getting out.
my intent was to cover every subject i came across.
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Thank you for this thread and let me say to everyone here who takes on the "shame" of being an apostate. THANK YOU! It is so hard to admit that you have not only been duped by a bunch of lecherous old men, but also brainwashed. I'm ashamed, now, of the number of family members I looked down at and treated arrogantly, becasue HOW DARE they question my bible trained conscience.
WHAT AN ASS I'VE BEEN!
Thanks everyone!!!
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What reached you first
by Wendy_Warden inwhen those of you were still jw's what was the first thing that began to open your eyes to the emptiness of jw church?
what spoke to your heart about the truth?
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A big thing for me was the acute lack of faith demonstrated by having so much fear of displeasing god. They paint this warm, fuzzy, cuddly picture of a kind, forgiving and wonderful god of love who will destroy the crap out of you if you don't follow his orders implicitly. There god sounds so much more like hitler than the person that created all the wonderful things we see around us.
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The dark side to their new personality
by JH inthe bible tells us to transform our personality so that we become better people and pleasant.
so, as jw, we were all supposed to do that.. it's funny, but most jw's i know, also transformed their personality into something more hateful.. maybe they stopped doing bad things that were apparent, but they also started doing hateful things that they didn't do before such as shun people or ignore their own brothers and sisters who don't see exactly eye to eye with the org.
as well as divide families, which they didn't do before becoming jw's.. i rather their old personality, before they became jw's.. .
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I'd rather be friends with someone who has loads of premarital sex than someone who'll leave me for dead for smoking a cigarette or sharing gifts on Dec. 25th.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord, and AMEN!
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writer's workshop websites?
by doogie inhey guys,.
i have a question for any writiers in the house.
i was just curious if anyone here knows of a good writer's workshop website (you know, those sites where you can post stuff and get feedback...that sort of thing.).
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Another writer? Cool! I hang out at www.writing.com. You can check out my portfolio there at http://improg.writing.com.
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The dark side to their new personality
by JH inthe bible tells us to transform our personality so that we become better people and pleasant.
so, as jw, we were all supposed to do that.. it's funny, but most jw's i know, also transformed their personality into something more hateful.. maybe they stopped doing bad things that were apparent, but they also started doing hateful things that they didn't do before such as shun people or ignore their own brothers and sisters who don't see exactly eye to eye with the org.
as well as divide families, which they didn't do before becoming jw's.. i rather their old personality, before they became jw's.. .
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Yep, they're an unhappy lot.