Posts by vilot

Actually that is a very good question. I am now an Atheist. It is difficult to explain in a way but I truely believe I have never felt spiritual even as a child raised in the Catholic faith I never had a God connection it was just something I was required to do go to church every Sunday. I became a JW as an adult and was chasing a dream in a way but in all my years as a JW I still never felt a God connection. When I realized my dream was just that a dream it was not a big leap to Atheism I don't think I was ever a believer. I did alot of reading after I left and confirmed what I felt all along that in my mind there was no God. My family finds this very perplexing how I could go from one extreme to another. I have always been a deep thinker in a way and my mind would wander to all heights. I would project outward. God came to earth to redeem mankind, died on the cross so we could have life, resurrected to heaven.

Now our galaxy has billions of stars, there are billions of galaxies in an infinite universe and Gods sole attention is on this little planet orbiting this little star in this galaxy. It just didn't make sense to me.

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Elder tactics in the secular world

by wha happened? in

there's a few jw's i still deal with.

some business etc etc.

well 3 years back i was involved in a financial group of investers in a commercial purchase.

vilot

In all my adult life I have worked with worldly people and witnesses. Worldly employers always conducted themselves in proper business conduct while each and everyone of the witnesses employers acted underhanded and dispictable business conduct always out for themselves only and didn't give a crap for anyone else.

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Can i file a law suit against the WTS?

by God_Delusion in

i had a brief chat with my lawyer last week and discussed religion as i always do with him (he's an atheist).

he asked how the jw's were doing and so i told him that i no longer go and that i to am an athiest (well, not entirely an atheist as i do believe that there may be some other forces out there somewhere and will believe that until it has been proved otherwise).

he was very pleased to hear this.. anyway, i asked him if it would be possible to file a law suit against the wts?.

vilot

It depends on what country you live if the US you don't have a chance freedom of religion and speech. Even if you could do you have endless funds to fight a multi year lawsuit the WTS has unlimited funds and an army of lawyers. You can not force people to not shun you. Think about it if people are willing to shun you are these people you really want to associate with including family. I have family that shun me and it is just fine with me I want nothing to do with them.

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Walk Away Quietly, Go Out with a Bang, Protest, Disappear- What's Best?

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

there are many different things that each of us deal with, but the biggest reasons most come here is for support in their own lives and in dealing with the jw's in their lives.

so many are lurking or new here, so maybe they need to hear why some of you chose the path you chose.. for each of us, the decisions on how to leave the wt are our own.

i fast-faded and don't look over my shoulder worrying about the elders trying to trap me because my wife doesn't spy for them.

vilot

I can appreciate those with family on the inside how difficult of a choice it is to make leaving. I had no immediate family in the "truth" just an aunt uncle and some cousins and they lived over 2000 miles from me. I also knew the friends I would be leaving (some for 25 years) were not friends at all and in fact have run into a number of them in public just to be shunned so much for "friends". I would think the best way for those with family is the fade and as mentioned depression is the perfect cover they can do sheparding calls and they are not prepared to handle such a situation and it is easy to fiend. They will ask you if you still believe it is Jehovah's organization give them the blah blah blah yes crap and they will leave till the next CO visit when they have to make an accounting as to those weak in the faith.

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Walk Away Quietly, Go Out with a Bang, Protest, Disappear- What's Best?

by OnTheWayOut in

jw
friends

there are many different things that each of us deal with, but the biggest reasons most come here is for support in their own lives and in dealing with the jw's in their lives.

so many are lurking or new here, so maybe they need to hear why some of you chose the path you chose.. for each of us, the decisions on how to leave the wt are our own.

i fast-faded and don't look over my shoulder worrying about the elders trying to trap me because my wife doesn't spy for them.

vilot

I went from being the model JW to DA overnight. I wrote a 2 sentence DA letter no explaination and did not discuss it with the elders just walked away. To this day they do not know why I left.

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Hello everyone.

by vilot in

i'm new here.

i da'ed myself a few years back.

hope to get to know you..

vilot

It can be difficult to put into a few words the path that led me out of the orgainzation, it began with little steps. I was baptized shortly after 1975 so I was not caught up in that date. Everything went fine I guess for the first 10 years I firmly believed it was the "Truth" and the system would end "Any time now". I believed when told hypocrisy was not tolerated in God's true faith. I was the good JW attended all meetings regular in service but for some reason I did not feel apart or I should say was not made to feel apart. I just ignored it figuring I had been an introvert all my life and it was just me.

Content to pretty much sit in the shadows and wait on Jehovah's Day time streamed forward and no Day. "New understandings" "New Light" came and went and I went with the flow I mean it was expected and no one questioned anything published in the Watchtower. Then i began noticing cracks little at first. "Why didn't the Elders express the zeal for service they preached from the platform" I would wonderd. Why did there exist little exclusive groups the socialized only among themselves. Then big cracks "Why was that Elder not DF'd for adultry but that sister with the JW husband that beat her to a pulp was when she stepped out on him.

Then the "1914 This Generation" new light rocked me to my core I could accept new light on blood and what I thought were smaller things but this sent me into shock. How could a bedrock doctrine the absolute piller of the faith be swept aside with nothing more than a stroke of a pen. And no one blinked accepted it and went on as if nothing happened at all.

For the next few years after that I sat there numb could not concentrate on any meetings and just thought, things I had never thought of before. I started researching the WTBTS history from their own liturature (no apostate material at all) and one day wrote my DA letter I never met with the elders gave no reasons for my decision and simply walked away. I then started attending a new church, "The Church of the Unbelievers" Atheism.

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Hello everyone.

by vilot in

i'm new here.

i da'ed myself a few years back.

hope to get to know you..

vilot

Active JW for 20 years, just to much hypocrity and doctrine changes. The last couple of years started to think the unthinkable researching the WT history and came to the conclusion it just was not Gods people.

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Hello everyone.

by vilot in

i'm new here.

i da'ed myself a few years back.

hope to get to know you..

vilot

I'm new here. I Da'ed myself a few years back. Hope to get to know you.