Another poll: raised in or came in?

by under_believer 106 Replies latest jw friends

  • free2beme
    free2beme

    Raised in the religion by my mother, my father was not, in fact he was against it. He just worked a lot and this gave plenty of time for my mom to turn us against him.

  • plmkrzy
    plmkrzy

    My grandmother began studying with the International Bible Students, I think that’s what they were if I remember correct, my mother was raised in it and brought my father into it, married, then my brother and I were born into it.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Raised in it, from age 6 on.

  • jwfacts
    jwfacts

    Raised

    (no way i would have be conned otherwise.)

    I am shocked that almost all responses are from raised people, or are all the converts too ashamed to answer?

  • nomoreTRUTHplz
    nomoreTRUTHplz

    came in but didnt stay long at all i felt pressured by family and study conductor to get baptized and within two months of baptism i hardly went to meetings one year after being baptized i went to my last meeting

  • luna2
    luna2
    ...or are all the converts too ashamed to answer?

    Could be. I'm certainly ashamed of myself. *sigh*

  • unclebruce
    unclebruce
    ...or are all the converts too ashamed to answer?

    ***Could be. I'm certainly ashamed of myself. *sigh* ***
    You disgust me Luna you freak .. what were you thinking ..now go sit in the corner and don't speak till you're called!

  • Dr Jekyll
    Dr Jekyll
    am shocked that almost all responses are from raised people, or are all the converts too ashamed to answer?

    LOL

    Would anyone that converted like to buy a bridge?

    Back to the subject, I was born in but left at 15 for two years then went back when I ended up working with a brother.

  • luna2
    luna2

    Unc, you're so strict!

    Dr., I would probably have bought that bridge back then (if I'd had the money). I was not only gullible but I had an almost unnatural desire not to disappoint people...and I really loved the woman who studied with me.

  • unclebruce
    unclebruce

    I placed™ my first mags at 10 and gave my first talk™ at 11 (just happened to be my 11th birthday) I was quite a late strater compared to some of you

    OK, now I've said something sort of "on topic" I can play ...nyaaaahhaarrr..

    I ended up working with a brother.

    Let me guess .. you ran arround in a van plastering ceilings .. you carried his ladders and paint pots? ....um .. I know - you spent november and december selling pine trees door to door

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