What did you become after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses? (page 2)

Vidiot

Garrett - "What did you become after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses?"

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cofty

I was an evangelical, bible-believing, born-again, saved, washed-in-the-blood, adopted, son of god, praaaaaaise Jeeeeebus, christian for nine years.

Then I started reading books.

I went to school and didn't stop til I had a Masters Degree. During that time, I went on to building a career and a life I could enjoy and be proud of instead of wasting it spreading pulp fiction around.

Village Idiot

A Carl Saganesque Non-Theist and cosmic Pantheist. The Universe is my goddess.

FayeDunaway

A liberal, non fundamentalist Christian active in a church and happy to have my own ideas and opinions and freely speak them amongst others who have their own ideas too...and somehow we all get along and love eachother.

Xanthippe

Hi Garrett. My husband and I left twenty-six years ago. We were Christians for two years but not churchgoers. Then my husband did lots of research on evolution and he even wrote a book about it. The publisher said he needed a science background to publish a science book so he started the physics degree he had always wanted to do.

I started a degree in European history. Within a year we had both stopped believing in God. My husband became a chartered physicist but dropped the book idea because it was based on theistic evolution.

It was in his will he wanted a non-religious funeral, he died at age fifty-four six years ago. I am an atheist but I think there is a lot of evidence for conscious existence after death. We got here without a god so I don't think any further stage of evolution has any need for a god or anything supernatural. This was something I first started reading about 23 years ago when I came across a book about it in a second-hand book shop, much to my surprise. I am still open-minded, nothing is set in stone.

DJS

Garrett,

I went back to school, finished a bachelor's degree i had quit due to the Dark Lords' influence, then got an MBA and am currently pursing a PhD.

I became a better father and leader, finished raising my two amazingly beautiful and successful brats - both of whom I am completely crazy stupid close to.

I became a better employee.

I traveled extensively, began collecting ex-girlfriends, art, and a grand assortment of real, close friends.

I volunteered and served as chair to two separate organizations for several years.

I became an adjunct professor at two colleges, a very rewarding experience.

I began seeing the world as it is; removing the black/white goggles that I had put on to mimic the Dark Lords' pharisaical teachings revealed a complex, complicated, beautiful and beautifully flawed world full of grey. As a result, I lost my judgmental nature and developed a liberal tolerance for the differences in people.

3rdgen

I became aware of how little I know about most everything and how in the grand scheme of things how little it matters.

Bungi Bill

The term "religioned out " best describes my position since leaving that lot 20 years ago.

Bill

flipper

I became myself after exiting the JW cult. My authentic, real self, not the WT trained cult self. And I found out that I really LIKE myself. I found out I had no need to feel an inferiority complex about myself. No need for fear or guilt. And now I treasure freedom of mind. Consider myself happily agnostic and I have no interest or need to know if there is a God or not. I just need to know and trust myself. I found that works a lot better

What did you become after leaving Jehovah's Witnesses?