What ingredients go into making someone become a Witness?
What's "The Perfect Storm" To Become One of Jehovah's Witnesses?
by minimus 28 Replies latest jw friends
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asilentone
one of them is "love bombing"
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minimus
Timing is very important. When people are at their lowest, JWism might seem more attractive.
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Scarred for life
This is a great idea for a thread and I look forward to reading everybody's responses. This is VERY important to me personally. I want to hear from all of you that became JWs as adults.
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Simon
Probably some family loss or tragedy that makes them start looking for answers that don't really exist.
Religion is a pain killer, nothing more ... the opium of the people.
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purplesofa
I became a JW as an adult.
I was in a horrible abusive marriage, my childhood was abusive, overwhelmed, depressed about the world's conditions. I was searching for something in my life. I had no family to speak of, my ex-husband chased off any friends that I had. I had abandoned my Catholic upbringing. There was a spark inside me that got lit on hearing The bible had a message of a new kingdom that would bring world peace, and from early childhood, I never wanted to die. I thought I really wanted to live forever and have time to experiance all there is on this planet. Someone came to my house every week which was awesome, I had small children and did not get out much. They were very loving and I was learning something. I doubted but thought I needed to overcome that to be normal and accepted by God, I needed a place in life.
I had never heard ANYWHERE that there was a possiblity of living forever.
I still want to
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purplesofa
I would like to add, it was not until I went to the meetings, without small children as a distraction,
years after first getting baptised, I was DF for nine years,
then I could really listen, and my mindset was in a better place,
it was not until then did I see it for the BS that it was.
purps
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purplesofa
another thing.
the scripture where it says, something like sighing or moaning and groaning over the detestable things going on.....sorry havent read a bible in long time.
I then got caught up in Jehovah read my heart, and pulled me out of the World.
I became special, something I never was.
shit, i was a mess.
purps
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CHILD
The person studying to become a JW would not know the bible. Any person who is a real bible student would not not fall for WTS lies.
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Casper
For me,
It began with the Witnesses stopping by and offering a Bible study, since
I had no Bible knowledge at all, and had been curious as to what it was all about, I accepted at the age of 27.
My husband and I studied off and on for a couple years, but I just could not commit to it, I had too many questions without solid answers.
Then my husband died, and they swooped in full force with the resurrection hope, with the state of mind I was in, I didn’t have the emotional energy to fend them off any longer. I went along with it, hoping against hope, that the resurrection was a real deal.
I was baptized within the year, and married an MS the following year.
I would say the "Perfect Storm" for me was personal tragedy.
Cas