Posts by cmobleness

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Personality Traits: An Inheritance From The Watchtower?

by The wanderer in

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personality traits: an inheritance from the watchtower?five meetings a week are going to have an influence on an individual .

whether they care to admit or not.

if an individual were raised on a steady diet of watchtower and awake.

cmobleness

All experiences have some effect on our personalities, especially those of a young child. When you are raised under the "rules" of the WT, you are taught that you are not important, what you want doesnt matter, you have no right to your own opinion, you are insignificant and the only way you are a "good" person that God would love is if you obey the organization. Yes, there is good teaching about living a clean life. However, the WT is not the only source teaching those values.

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Going to anoher church?

by KatyH81 in

i just wondered if anyone has been to a church since fading, or getting out?

and how did you feel when you went?

cmobleness

The first time I went to another church, other than for a funeral or wedding, was to go and hear the preacher say something that I could disagree with. A friend of mine had taken one of my daughters without my consent. With only my JW background, I expected all kinds of things, I was waiting for the lightning to strike. Instead I found a home, a group of people who love me and accept me for who I am, not wanting to change me but allowing God's grace to change my heart. There is no comparison to the dictatorship of the JW cult, and the loving, truly loving, family of God, there to help you and support you.

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How Would You or Did You Leave The Organization??

by minimus in

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by choice, with a little help from the elders, faded slowly, disassociated????

how'd you get out?

cmobleness

I guess I faded for awhile, moved a few times, but then the elders caught up with me and came to my house. They asked if I was smoking, duh...the ash tray was on the coffee table. I told them that I had no desire to be associated with the congregation and that I felt no loyalty to the JW since I did not beleive that my baptism meant anything since I only did it because that was what I was supposed to do at 16, not because I truly dedicated my life to Jehovah. Too many doubts for too many years. Then I became witness to how the elders covered up sexual abuse in the cong and I was out of there. I never heard back from them, got a letter or anything. Then in 1998, I began attending a Baptist church, something I never thought I would do. When my JW family found out, they labeled be apostate and have no contact with me. I am now a born again believer in Jesus Christ. Still struggle with all the JW junk inside my head, but it is getting better.