Posts by ucsdboi2

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What year Did you Stop Attending Meetings - How Long were you a JW ?

by flipper in

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i'm trying to compare some statistics and figures on this to share later in the thread to see if more long-time witnesses are exiting- or are newer witnesses exiting after a shorter period of time.

and - are more people exiting in the last 10 to 15 years than before.

so your answers would be helpful in looking into this .

ucsdboi2

I was born into the JW faith in 1960 to 2nd generation parents of JW's...and after much soul searching and prayer my wife and I both left the JW's in 2007. Since that time our lives have been so much fuller and a huge weight has been lifted.

It was always so strange to me that the witnesses tout themselves as being such a happy people, and yet I see it even in my own parents, that they are not truely happy. So many in the congergations are suffering from depression...and I can only attribute it to the fact that the end of this system, which for me in my being brought up in the JW's has been just around the corner for almost 50 years that my parents drove that point home, has not come and the biblical proof of that "Time of the End" has not developed. I really think alot of them are in the same boat my wife and i found ourselves...lost and not being able to discuss our thoughts with anyone, for fear of it backlashing on us, not even our parents. If it were not for the scare tactics the JW's use, I think many, many more would walk away, and finally realize that this was not the truth they were seeking.

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Poll: Who Left Whilst Still Believing?

by brinjen in

this is for an upcoming youtube project.

i would love to do this on a mass scale... think there might be something "big" in the results.. 1. were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?.

2. when you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truthtm, (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?.

ucsdboi2

1. Were you a born-in (including those who's parents converted while they were still children) or did you convert as an adult?

Born in...forth generation JW. (parents, grandparents and great grandparents) You can imagine what the family thinks of me now.

2. When you left, did you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it was all a load of crap?

I left after seeing clearly the hypocracy in the organization and seeing how everyone seemed to march to every order or thought that was handed down from the WTBTS and the GB...I was a Misterial Servant at the time...but I couldn't take serving a printing company over serving God...so i guess by this time I found it all to be a big load of crap...

3. Now, do you still (a) fully believe in the truth TM , (b) partially believe or (c) realise it is all a load of crap?

I know in my heart, it is false.

4. When you left, how afraid where you of armageddon TM ?

I felt so empty and my biggest fear was not so much armageddon but where do I go now...today my fear of armageddon is gone but now I wonder what is in store for me...so i guess I am still very lost...but I know one thing, and that is, that the JW's will never control me again.

5. Do you class yourself now as (a) christian (b) agnostic (c) atheist or (d) other (please state).

I still have a deep feeling of a higher god...it was just the package it all came in...so Christian.