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scotsman
I’m out of here, the racism that’s tolerated on JWD is nauseating.
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startingover
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Scully
The Watchtower Society infested my life when I was 6 years old and my parents began Studying™ with the JWs. I wanted to quit going to Meetings™ in my teens and had to deal with the ugliness of JW bullying without the support that exists now. Baptized™ at 17, mostly to gain the approval of my parents, I parroted the answers that were expected when was being prepared for Baptism™. By the time I was 30, a health crisis in my life showed me the JWs' true colours, and my doubts reached critical mass. I became interested in Social Psychology and began watching a university course presented on the subject - the lectures about group dynamics and mind control techniques opened my eyes and I decided that I wanted to leave the JWs once and for all. I had to be sure that my family would leave too - it took almost a year for me to convince my spouse that the JWs did not have The Truth™. January 1, 1995 marks when our "fade" began.
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Sherri
Formerly from Dayton, Ohio (mainly Vandalia Congregation). Left in May 1987. Spent a year in France and then moved to the UK in 1995.
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scholar
Bachelor of Arts majoring in Religious Studies and Philosophy, Deakin university Bachelor of Arts -Honours (incomplete) Philosophical Studies, Deakin University Master of Arts- Studies in Religion, University of Sydney
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somebody
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Simon
Brought up 'in the truth'. Married with 2 teenage boys. Started the forum in 2000 when I was beginning to doubt so I could discuss and question things and it's grown from there and evolved over the last 15+ years. We still have friends and family that shun us for the sole crime of leaving the religion while many who commit real "sins" are welcome to attend and congregate.