What steps did you take to stop your association with the congregation?

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When I finally knew that the WTS didn't have the truth,I decided to take steps to slow down and become an inactive member. ( I still have my whole family in.......so..... I prefer to remain inactive)

I took these small steps :

Stopped answering at Book Study

Stopped answering at the Kingdom Hall

Took myself off the Ministry School

Stopped attending Book Study

Stopped going out in service

Stopped reading any literature......Awake......Watchtower......Books

Stopped attending assemblies

Stopped attending Ministry School

I still attend some Sunday meetings and attend every Memorial.

What steps did you take?

no more kool aid

All that minus the Sunday meeting. Haven't had the opportunity to skip the memorial yet.

Satanus

I started antiwitnessing to my jw friends and workmates. It got me dffed, after a yr. It's what i wanted, at the time.

S

Elsewhere

None.

They shunned me when I told them that I did not believe the teachings of the WTS.

Stopped going out in the ministry first . Then stopped commenting at meetings ,quit going to the book study . Attendance at other meetings became sporadic for a couple of months until my last school talk then quit going all together . Went back a few months later to the Memorial ,nothing after that .

Tuesday

Cold turkey here, I just stopped going.

OnTheWayOut

Resigned as an elder and took myself off the Ministry School in one step.

Stopped answering at the Kingdom Hall

Stopped answering at Book Study

Stopped attending Book Study just a few weeks later-
Having quit that one right away, I was never at one again.

Stopped going out in service, actually turned in reports and
wrote ZERO HOURS in big letters on them.

Meanwhile to the steps above, faded from all meetings with
cutting back and keeping track of it.

Stopped reading any literature......Awake......Watchtower......Books

Stopped attending all meetings before the next assembly

Faded completely out by the memorial on a fade started in August
Attended the Memorial, but not at home congregation. Haven't
been to a meeting there since before that Memorial.

Had a somber private unbaptism- denounced the WT for withholding
evidence and burned some literature

Started forgetting the details of the more difficult doctrines

Never bothered to tell off the elders, just released any power the WTS
had over me. I never DA'ed or DF'ed, just completed the fade, but I
don't look over my shoulder.

AllTimeJeff

My route was a little more surprising:

As an elder I.....

Read "apostate" (i.e. truthful) information about the cult I was in

Reported about 40 more hours per month then what I was actually doing.

Read more "apostate" literature and started lurking here and other JW internet forums

Realized I was trapped in a dead end marriage in a cult.

Got an apt.

Got a job (ironically, through a message left at a KH)

Wrote a Dear John letter to the ex AND the borg.... (I needed two seperate letters, but they both had the same idea)

Left without warning, because none of them deserved it. (not true, but thats how I felt at the time)

Haven't missed one superstitious thing about the cult since.

shamus100

Quit going my last month, with the exception of three meetings.

Moved and told nobody.

Never went to another meeting. Ever. And I never will again.

If you really want a clean break, move. Tell nobody.

oompa

i doubted for decades...but put them on the shelf....then esp after the 1995 generation change.....began doubting verbally....but still did not look at apostate crap on the net...it was vorbodden of course.....

but my faith was truly weaker than ever....so I did the unplanned fade....many here have as well i am sure.....i just could not go out in service as much.....and i could not go to as many meetings.......and i could not comment as much........but it was not planned at all.....it just happened..........

then after all my vocal doubts....it happened...they graduated me from the ministry school....ya....they stopped giving me talks without me asking......rare....but i consider it a diploma....

then my intrests in the NWT use of the name JEHOVAH in the new testament grew....and i found out the truth.....straight from the horses mouth....or ass....

and then.........i freakin told EVERYBODY the truth about what i had learned....and the elders involved of course learned a ton too...as they had no clue either about the REAL truth about our fraudulant bible.......

and after i woke up....i went on the net....and my doubts were verified........and i have made some great new friends here...but it was after i woke up.........oompa