by minimus 31 Replies latest jw friends
As a kid, I used to read all the Watchtowers of the 40s and 50s to see how the present day information developed from its original "thought". I was exposed to many eye opening statements but I swept them under the carpet (although it stayed in the recesses of my brain) until the time was right.
So for me, it was a gradual thing.
How were you affected by your first encounters with "apostate" material??
I stumbled onto Kent`s site..The information was over welming..
The more I read,the more I wanted to read..
The Internet is kicking the shit out of the WBT$..And..There`s nothing the WBT$ can do about it..
.............LOL!!...OUTLAW
The internet sealed the deal.
I found Randy's site and it lead me here to all you fella's.
Randy's site is invaluable!
Randys site "FreeMinds" was my next discovery..Then JWD/JWN..
..................OUTLAW
Rabid, foaming at the mouth sign-wavers at conventions.
To most JWs, including myself, they were a sad freak show to be observed from the corner of my eye.
They just reinforced all the "anti-apostate" counsel we got from the Borg.
The first apostate info that really sunk in for me was www.AJWRB.org
Of course, I didn't think it was really apostate at the time or I wouldn't have read it. Probably.
Gradualism is the gateway to destruction, err, freedom.
Watchtower was right all along.
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I read information about JW in the public library. Some witnesses worked there so I (15 years old) had to take a constant look over my shoulders. I was scared the elder watched we me reading the public JW file overthere. Ten years later I got internet on my room and took a look at H20 Hourglass everyday. I was scared about reading the information about 1799, 1874 and the original teachings about 1914. It was the beginning of my sarcasm about the JW writersstaf.
Gorbatchov
"History is a capricious character.
It depends on who writes it."
I read Barbara Harrison Grizutti's book in the late 70's. Some parts seemed bizarre and did not measure up to what I knew about Bethel but it got me thinking.
I was out for about a year and a half before I went looking. I didn't believe it was true I had pretty much realized that the belief in god was ignorant but I hadn't started looking closely at witness beliefs. I basically did it because my family wouldn't leave me ALONE. I kept getting that 'you KNOW it's the truth, you know it's the truth... So I started researching just go get ammo to make them leave me alone.
