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garyneal
Was raised in a non religious household. Parenting Beyond Belief, a book that describes how to teach morals without religion, actually describes my upbringing. I was influenced into belief by my religious uncle and a friend who got the religion bug when we were little. I became a born again Christian around 1991 but backslid sometime later by 1994 when I was fed up with the rigid rules and doctrines of the cult like Independent Fundamental Baptist churches I attended. My faith was renewed in 1997 when I became involved with a Christian ministry at college and remained faithful up until 2011. During that time I met and married my JW wife and began studying with them in 2003 up until 2009. They were nice people who had a unique perspective on the scriptures and found some of their doctrines to be truthful or at least make sense during that time. By 2009 I was not sure what was the true faith and set out to find it. Operating on the premise that the Bible was the inerrant word of God, I sought to read and study it most thoroughly to discover the Truth (with a capital T) and ultimately found myself going down a rabbit hole that eventually led me away from my belief in the certainties in Christianity. Long story, too long to tell here but follows the whole narrative of me discovering the truth about the Bible, about my faith, and me trying to run from my doubts until I had no choice but to embrace them. I consider myself a skeptic now who sees God in a more deistic perspective with my answer to the question, "Is there a God?" being "I don't know." A kind of a weak atheist.
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Butterflyleia85
I joined this website 2009 and loved it ever since. Since joining I over came great obstacles with this supportive group. And am now happily married to my dear supportive husband. We have two precious children a boy who's 4 and a little girl who's 2. I'm now living my passion; free to choose what speaks to my soul and to help others whole heartedly without manipulation or control. If you need someone to speak to please PM me!
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finallysomepride
Born & raised in JWism (New Zealand). Hated 90% of my time in "The Truth" even as a 10 year old I was figuring out the TTATT, sadly I hung around on the edge of "The Truth" until I was 40.
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Pants of Righteousness
From the North Sentinel Island
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cantleave
I was raised as a JW by my extremely devout and somewhat psychotic mother. I was baptised in my late teens, all my friends were getting dunked and it seemed the right thing to do. After getting married in my early 20's I did enough of the right things to became an MS and eventually an elder.Although I had many doubts throughout my life, it was my being appointed an elder that made me realise the religion is a crock of shit. I left in 2009 at age 42, and was lucky enough to leave with my wife and kids. Sadly I still have some family members in the cult, including my mother, brother sister in-law and nephews as well as some of my wife's family. So much has changed in the years since I left, especially in terms of belief or rather lack of it. I now consider myself a humanist and have no time for delusional belief systems. I spend my time working on my career and with my family and friends and have pretty much put the ExJW stuff behind me. I live in Hampshire in the UK and make an effort to help those exiting where I can - I am hoping one day that my nephews make their way here.......anything is possible.
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