i knew i could never preach or promote the jws in any way when i first started fading b/c why would i want to be proactive in bringing people into an organization that showers love, then witchhunts, then everything's ok, then witchhunt again and hold the shunning gun to your head.
i knew the borg was like an abusive marriage mate, giving a good back hand then treating you nice for a while.
that was nine years ago.
but, i thought if the governing body became less arrogant, if they apologized for things, if the leaders actually switched up by some miracle and became united and loving like christians are supposed to be, i left the door open that i would go back if there were major changes.
the point of no return, reading COC four years ago....and of course the continued arrogance and not caring about the people they're kicking out of bethel who now have no real life experience and need to live in other jws garages and become janitors and can't afford health insurance and the wtbts being mum over the payoffs to victims of abuse, and those payoffs were made by people who thought they were contributing to the worldwide work, oh boy.
point of no return was four years ago, when i told my wife, we had a bouncy ride for a while....but her family is in hard and deep (no pun intended)....and she can't preach either, she's at the point where she's seen so much wrong she can't promote it, but she still goes and i believe puts in :15 minutes of service every month just to stay active, like probably 25% of the jws.
2007 increases are definitely b/c of the :15minute "new light".
oh, blessed is he who didn't think of allowing 15 minute increments until over 100 years of "guiding" the jws.
it's so refreshing to be out of there.
