by sleepy 118 Replies latest jw friends
Left at 18,first doubts at 9 (1975)
Never baptised(almost at 14,but Dad talked me out of it,thankfully)(and yes,he was active at the time,and continued to be 'til he died)
Born in,3rd generation
We ride and never worry about the fall
I guess that's just the cowboy in us all
1.Age you left the watchtower.
left at 32 DAed
(Or Age you found out it was wrong)
42
2.Age that you were baptised.
baptized at 17
3.were you brought up in it or converted?
brought up in it from the age of 11
OK I was a slow learned - haha really was too chicken to check out "apostate" info. Finally got the courage to start reading and been free ever since
Rejoice in the healing and not in the pain.
Rejoice in the challenge overcome and not in the past hurts.
Rejoice in the present - full of love and joy.
Rejoice in the future for it is filled with new horizons yet to be explored. - Lee Marsh 2002
Well I can say that I was always by nature skeptical of anything about religion anyway. I got that way from being forced as a kid to go to church. Watching preachers preach about being humble before God while driving the biggest and best luxury cars at the congregations expense, having their pick of the women in the congregation. It all even then seemed to be much like a show.
Fast forward to the Kingdum Hall. After the lusture of the new order always being just around the corner wearing off, the explosion of the internet after near total isolation to anything but their literature about the JW organization, and always constantly being chided with the implication that what you were doing for the WT was always just short of enough and that you could always possibly do more....I finally figured I'd had enough!!!!!
baptized at 15
took xmas from me at age 10
started having doubts 38
doin the slow fade thang now at age 42
1.26 LEFT
2.16 BAPTIZED
3.10 STARTED BEING JW
baptized at 10, third generation JW
first doubts at age 20, left by the time I was 27
Wife,
her family converted when she was 12, don't know when she was baptized. She married me when she was 21 and I was 22. We faded away together.
Our three children were not exposed to it.
1. Age you left the watchtower. (Or Age you found out it was wrong)
* Got in trouble at 19, found out it was way off at 20 and REALLY WRONG WRONG at 24
2. Age that you were baptized.
*12 (stupid, huh?)
3. Were you brought up in it or converted?
*Raised, unfortunately -- 3rd Generation
Smoldering Wick ---- WELCOME ABOARD TO THE CRAZY CREW! Sit down, grab some coffee, it's an intereesting ride!!
waiting -- OMFG -- is that over 4,000 posts I saw? -- Supreme One -- Holy CHIT...
1) 31 started doubting
2) 14 got baptized
3) I first went to a meeting at 8.
1) left at 35, 9 months ago
2) started having doubts in 1995
3) dunked at 16,had to do it two times, I was bad, not really it was these damn big feet.
Parents started studing with dubs when i was 7
1. Figured it out around 30 (still in, though)
2. Baptized at 16
3. Brought up in it (3rd generation)
