Had doubts, and was incredibly unhappy for years. I lurked here for about 18 months and officially joined 7 years ago just as I was physically walking out the door. I was 39.
I agree, with the comment, that so many of us have left at middle age or older is because of the availability of information. In my case I would probably still be in the windowless walls of the the watchtower if it wasn’t for the net. My biggest regret was staying for as long as I did.
jws or mormons.
from a public point of view not from people within the religion as that would be obvious.. examples of extreme beliefs or behaviour would be useful..
jws or mormons.
from a public point of view not from people within the religion as that would be obvious.. examples of extreme beliefs or behaviour would be useful..
It wasn’t until I left the JWs that I started to take a closer look at the LDS. I remember when I walked out the door, thinking that it wasn’t possible to get any more crazy than the JWs. I was to latter realise how wrong I was.
From a doctrinal point of view the LDS are in a more precarious position the JW. Its hard not to think of the BoM as a veneer for a conman who was a sexual predator. Honestly, Rutherford had nothing on Joe Smith / Brigham young.
Now, if we put doctrine to one side, as a life style choice, I would choose LDS. I Wouldn’t even have to think about it. Basically the LDS are a weirder but more user friendly version of the JWs.
i happened to be privy to a phone witnessing conversation that my aged father was conducting, the person on the other end just climbed into him.
he got real nasty and my father ended up hanging up on him.
i could see that my father was distressed about it, but or course put it down to satan and persecution.
Angry that he had an unsolicited call.
i happened to be privy to a phone witnessing conversation that my aged father was conducting, the person on the other end just climbed into him.
he got real nasty and my father ended up hanging up on him.
i could see that my father was distressed about it, but or course put it down to satan and persecution.
the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (iicsa) is holding a public hearing in the child protection in religious organisations and settings investigation for the next two weeks.
the provisional timetable for the first week was released today: https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/17795/view/2020-03-12-cpiros-public-hearing-week-one-timetable.pdf .
five witnesses will testify on the jw issue next thursday, 19 march:.
Let’s hope he does a better job than his mate Jeff done in Australia.
and i would like as many as possible to view it and comment on it as possible because i cant believe they are still pulling this shit and the rank & file are still lapping it up .?
in this year of 2020.. i`m sorry i do not have the nouse to make a link or attachment or whatever and hope someone can do so .. i know, i had doubts about looking at it also , its on jw.org ,whats new or something phillipines memorial and an experience was given their about a young pioneer girl that had eyesight problems and how she got her doctor and hundreds more to go on line to watch the special talk .
and they even went on to say they had 30,000 non jw`s log on to the special talk.?
Be interesting to check the validity of it. If anyone can comment from the Philippines. Thanks
i recall when it was released ,that's when i was a drone, how excited i felt at the prospect of reading it and formulating ways to sell it at the homes in my area.. i thought, finally a book to explain the last book in the bible and indeed one that the churches seemed to want to leave alone!.
i sold quite a few probably because of my enthusiasm and can still remember clearly the first day when i went knocking on doors with it ,and it's been decades since.. but over time it lost it's shine and my mind started to question the explanations in it due to the scene of other things being changed in the jw beliefs.. do you remember they flogged that book so many times in the book studies even when it was found to have "newer light " eclipsing it!.
who else remembers the printed pages with the official corrections to insert into the book ,so many that the book collapsed to be of no relevance anymore really.....what an embarrassment!.
That book was total BS from front to cover. I knew it was even when I was a fully indoctrinated PIMI.
