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Hans Solo
After 33 years of lies, I'm out!
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HappyGal
Mom started studying with JWs when I was 5. I was baptized at age 16 and faded at age 28. Been out for over 30 years. Married to a great guy who has never been a witness.
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Half banana
Born and therefore will also die. It's what you do in between which counts.
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happy@last
I was raised a JW from the age of 7, shortly after my mum became one she married a man who turned out to be a pedo! I suffered 5 years of his abuse, angry with life and seeking happiness I was baptised at 15. Soon became an MS and later an elder, I quit overnight when I was nearly 40. I have 2 children one who lives with their JW mother who I am trying to save, the other one is out and lives with me. I DA'd in December 2013. My abuser is now serving his prison sentence for the crimes against me, he is still a JW.
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Heaven
Born-in, never baptized. The problem of theodicy, why an all-loving, all-powerful God allows suffering and evil, began when I was around the age of 10 due to the Ethiopian famine in the early 1970s and God's inability and/or indifference to resolve this massive scale of suffering. As I moved into my teen years, I began to disagree with Watchtower doctrine and beliefs, as well as the Bible itself. Misogyny does not sit well with a teenage girl. I was also having difficulty with Watchtower's doctrinal flip-flops - one that I recall was about Evolution. For 15 to 16 years of my life my mother vehemently and adamantly denied the Theory of Evolution and then one day said to me "You know Heaven, there may be something to Evolution after all." I was gobsmacked. I definitely did not agree with Watchtower's blood policy. Even as a teenager, I could not reconcile elevating a symbol of life above life itself.