Your early JWD days (page 2)

BabaYaga

These are my early days on JWD *grin*.

My thoughts keep returning to what my life might have been like had this been around when I left. I guess I'm pretty old-school AWOL... mine was a pre-Google exit and it took years of waking from Dub-convention cold-sweat nightmares to ease into some sense of normalcy.

Thank heavens it's here now, is all I can say. Thanks, kids.

BabaYaga

Oh, wait, I guess I do have a first experience story.

I think that I, like many others, thought that this was a WTBTS site at first glance, and then quickly realized otherwise. When I first read about the UN involvement, I was absolutely incredulous. Mind you, I have been out for YEARS, and I STILL couldn't believe that. I went immediately to Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/ the fabulous urban legend verification site) and as it was not a forwarded email or vocal urban legend, it wasn't there. In fact, Snopes is smart enough not to touch the dubs at all, if you search on their site there is no mention of Witnesses anywhere. With my standby verification site having failed me, I Googled furiously for verification myself. Well, I was stunned. And I continue to be. I know more about the Society (hell, I know more about the Bible itself!) now than I ever could have hoped to, trapped in the capital TEE-RUTH.

Thanks. I'm hoping and praying that it will be instrumental in helping my beloved ones still in to someday become "Awake!"

avishai

I think my earlier posts were much angrier. Still angry, but am more interested in helping others than venting.

lonelysheep

I was very hesitant to post and didn't really know what to say. The doctrine threads really grabbed my attention.

It was around election day here in the states when I joined and the day before my birthday (that word still had me shook). Since Dumbya was up for re-election, there were tons of political threads....lol. This alone petrified me!!! There was some nervousness as to whether or not I was doing the right thing by reading them. Some came off as angry. Obviously, that didn't stop me and only piqued my curiousity about everyone even more!

OUTLAW

This place was a Wild West show..Trolls abounded..I lurked a long time before I ever posted..Then I logged on and the place got crazyer..It was a madhouse..I like what the board has become..A better place for Newbies,a better place for all of us..Simon and Mods,Thank-you!...OUTLAW

sass_my_frass

I was at work, going through a strange thing: I'd just had a JC meeting and was about to be disfellowshipped, but I'd also just announced my engagement. I went searching for support, found this site, and posted straight away, telling my story. I wrote a great long essay. Thanks to a server and security problem at work (this site gets blocked as a 'cult site' heh), I submitted the post and it failed. I didn't have the time to write it all up again so I just left this blank thread with the subject line 'I am about to be disfellowshipped', and went back to work a bit peeved.

A month later I googled again and found the site, and found that even though all I'd written was that one sentence, dozens of people had offered their support. Everything got so much better after that.

Big Tex

During the early days, there were a lot of bickerers and complainers around. A lotta babies too, quite immature in how they dealt on the board. There seems to be a spike here of new ones which is great. This site is mainly to help new ones get out of the WT. It's the best place for the latest!

Yep. 2001-2002 was wild and wooly. Quite different than today. I lurked for 6 months before taking the plunge. It was sometimes a bit tense back in the day.

BTW Min, glad you're not posting in all caps like you used to at first.

choosing life

I'm still pretty new. I did lurk for a few months before I posted,. Mostly because I was afraid of getting caught and afraid that others might be critical. I have to say, no one has ever been rude to me on here. I still feel kinda like an outsider though because I don't know anyone closely. I love to come here and I get irritable when I'm not able to log on at least twice daily. Is this site addictive?

Jourles

I have a hard time remembering 6 minutes ago let alone 6 years ago...

integ

I was sticking up for the JW's when I first started here.

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