Hello all,
I have been lurking here for about a month or two. It is really awesome to read so many similar experiences.
For example, when I was still 'in' I wondered if I was the only one in the hall that really hated the meetings. And also hearing the same cr!p afterwards: that was a wonderful meeting, what a wonderful new book and blablabla. Then those stories how blessed there were and didn’t lose hope and finally found some bread when they were hungry... Back then I wondered how they got hungry in the first place.
Well anyway. My whole family is in the organization. LUCKYLY I am not baptized. So they don’t shun me and threat me normal (they are probably liberal or are still convinced that I might change my mind and go back to the 'truth'). I stopped going a couple of years ago when I was a teenager. I didn’t leave because I was a rebel, but I realized that it was just not something I could believe in and dedicate my life to. Several people that I knew talked about all their false prophecies like 1975, the generation,...so I discovered TTATT thanks to them and without the internet. 1984 from George Orwell also really helped me a lot to discover TTATT. From that point onwards the meetings were twice as hard to attend and I was constantly looking for excuses to skip meetings. Finally after a couple of mouths I faded. Of course my family encouraged me to attend meetings but I told them I needed more time to study and some personal time to consider things.
Currently I am at college so basically I can do whatever I want (in a responsible way). I just made this topic to share with you guys that I am really happy that I was never baptized and currently my life is really good. I am so glad that my family doesn't shun me, although I am aware that other families in the org. would.