i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
why is it sometimes--when i go to reply---the options boxes-------bold--italics---underscore etc isnt there--so i post a blank--as above--then it appears ????
anyway
0-40years old. April 12, 2006 was my 20th wedding anniversary. My husband was on the stage giving the Memorial talk. I left before the concluding prayer. The marriage and the religion were over that night with one swift, clean rip of the bandage
thats a very interesting post--magwich--would you care to share more of your story ?
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
Disfellowshipped at 17 for loving my neighbour.
seriously impressed now Tim Hooper------you really need to share details now. lol
humankind has for centuries sought truth outside of themselves.
the soupmix of teaching ,ideas,philosophies and religious dogma had failed to see that the truth is within and if we seek ,knock and ask we find it within us.
the truth is that we are all light and pure love and that is buried deep within alll the layers upon layers which are being stripped away to reveal the true inner self .
i prefer satan
you know where you are with satan----no false hope----no empty promises
yep---satan every time---my kinda gal.
i believe that the older you are the harder it is to leave the watchtower.. .
i am attempting to get a list of ages people learnt the "truth" and what age they left.. .
uun.
raised in it from childhood--dipped age 14 to keep my dad company and because 6 other dub-brats in the cong were too. mentally on the way out by 21. resigned age 23 over blood issuie--1st child on the way. attended occasional meetings to keep born in wife sweet--but--no door knocking or talks etc. regarded as an un-opposed husband by dub friends. never shunned.
had an affaire with a married sis at 33--wife divorced me as fast as she could. i was labelled apostate--and that was the end of any involvement for me.
my 3 kids started to shun me a few years later--2 still do--1 is d'f and now is close to me. i only got into this xjw thing 4 years ago--when i heard my son had been d/f----ive had a good 33 years of being atheist apostate lol.
so i am, i guess technically an apostate.
never baptized, family all in and treat me fine since leaving home/wt over 30 years whenever i see them.
discovered the ttat by reading kingdom of the cults and catching an episode of the john ankerberg show when i was 18.. in the past 4 years i have "helped" two people ( a father and son) get reinstated.
i think all religions worship the same dog--er--god. just each from a slightly different direction. then all god has to do--is turn his head slightly to direct his stern gaze at whichever one is in the limelight.
fortunately--i'm a born atheist---so all the god twaddle is just a silly nonsense to me.
i have had to remove my rant because hubby doesn't want the jw realatives to retaliate again..
isnt there a members only section on here--where lurking dubs cant see ?
before i dive into the actual write-up of this experience, let me put some things straight.. i have thought long and hard if i should write more about my experiences during the 10+ years at different branches.
during these years i worked from financial department, service department, home office and different it assignments.
as you can imagine one sees and hears and reads a lot of stuff going through different stations in different countries.
i missed this thread 6 months ago. thankyou blue pill for sharing your account. ( i put story there---but somehow that suggested i didnt believe you )
this thread needs to be bumped regularly--for all the new ones streaming into this site.
in january my wife separated from me, because she views me as an apostate (to make the story short).. at that time the elders explained to us, that the bible doesn't approve of such a separation.
i heard from my mother in law, that my wife finally wants to divorce.
(when i think of how my wife treated me the last year i actually want a divorce too).. now my question to you:.
sorry to read about your break-up Daniel---ive gone through 2 divorces ( careless--i know )----and i know how stressful it can be.
but--if i were in your shoes---if you think the marriage is over--and you no longer live under the weight of WT thought control------why not give her grounds for a scriptural divorce--if thats what she wants
enjoy yourself--get a girlfriend----boff her brains out. tell your wife.
postmen, accountants, window cleaners, pop-songers- even you!
yes these days everybody - and anybody - seem to be leaving the jehovers witnesses.so why should you be left out?.
there was a time when you had to have performed some terrible service to the g.b?
hey NH & H--can you post links to those other threads of yours--i must have missed them--and they sound like my sort of reading lol
