Was There A Specific Event That U Remember-- Realizing It Wasn't The Truth?

by minimus 51 Replies latest jw friends

  • minimus
    minimus

    For me, it was a combination of things over a long period of time.

    How about you??

  • mentalclearness
    mentalclearness

    ditto minimus....wasn't one thing..just a bunch of things I kept putting in the back of my head and then finally it just couldn't be pushed back any further.

  • hillbilly
    hillbilly

    was about 12 years old. JW kid down the street gets in a big argument about if a person , say, drowned, in the New System (tm) would he actually "die" and be resurected or NOT die....

    after a few minutes of his logic I had nothing.

    ~Hill

  • minimus
    minimus

    Silly. No one "drowns" in the new system. If you can't accidentally die, certainly, one couldn't drown.

  • hillbilly
    hillbilly

    Mike...is that YOU? LOL!

    ~Hill

  • AWAKE&WATCHING
    AWAKE&WATCHING

    There were a number of things that I tried to ignore. I tried to tell myself to wait on Jehovah and that the brothers are imperfect. Exactly what I was brainwashed to do.

    The day I found out about the U.N./N.G.O. scandal is the day that I woke the hell up.

  • The Lone Ranger
    The Lone Ranger

    I believe it was always the truth, even with all the self-righteous nuts, I would excuse them as ‘unusual’ . But cutting to the chase I was involved in a committee and I could not believe the accusations and lies, favouritism, bias etc.. in God’s organisation !! the kind of stuff that I thought only happened in ‘Satans’ world. So out of shock and despair I looked at the internet and within a few minutes I realised WHY and all the loose pieces came together.

  • Marjorie
    Marjorie
    ditto minimus....wasn't one thing..just a bunch of things I kept putting in the back of my head and then finally it just couldn't be pushed back any further.

    Double ditto.

  • R.Crusoe
    R.Crusoe

    I think it was the being brainwashed into them having all the keys to happiness and years later knowing for sure that I never had been.

  • mouthy
    mouthy

    I believed EVERYTHING except Jesus coming invisably in 1914 ...The elders came & told me I MUST believe that. ( I had lost my hubby in death two years prior)
    I cried to them & told them I just couldnt see how that was ,since Jesus when he came it would get better. Well they left

    There had been a brother? in the congregation around my age who was taking a special interest in me ,>>>>>flirting,
    A few days after they told me I was D/F ,,, I backed out of my parking into another car. & that VERY BROTHER stood & laughed at me. Walked away !!!! I knew then that Gods organization couldnt be ruled by God. 1 . because when they told me I was d/f I asked" what they would do if I killed my self "One shrugged his shoulders, 2. When a "loving" brother could laugh at my accident.
    I believe they didnt want to look after the Widow....So chuck her out. They did!!!! I sometimes want to send them THANK YOU cards

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