How many found the REAL truth from the internet?

by Leander 61 Replies latest jw friends

  • Carmel
    Carmel

    Well, I pulled the plug long before there was and enternet. The last three years of cussin and discussin on various exjw sites has been more for intertainment than enlightenment. Fun folk for the most part and a chance to jab at a FRED or YK and watch their mental maggots fall off.

    carmel

  • You Know
    You Know
    When I learned the Truth abou the Troof, I was physically ill for several days, with flu-like symptoms.

    That's nothing, when Habakkuk was given a vision of the horrific genocidal holocaust that is going to befall this system of things he wrote: "I heard, and my belly began to be agitated; at the sound my lips quivered; rottenness began to enter into my bones; and in my situation I was agitated, that I should quietly wait for the day of distress, for his coming up to the people, that he may raid them."

    / You Know

  • jschwehm
    jschwehm

    My doubts actually started while I was younger. I remember learning in a World History class in high school that the date for the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians was not 607 BC. I shrugged it off at first. Then while pioneering, I started seeing some inconsistencies in some other teachings when some "new light" came out. I remember showing my father one of them and he said to me "Gee, I hope there are not any more apostates on the Governing Body like there were before" (He was referring to the Ray Franz incident.)

    I went to Bethel and saw the politics. It really helped me to see the organizational leaders as humans and not these almost "inspired" leaders that I was taught to follow. While at Bethel I started having discussions with other Bethelites about things and started reading older literature. This created more doubts. By the time I left Bethel, I would say that I still believed that the JWs taught "the truth" but that the organization was becoming corrupt and too political.

    I left Bethel and got married and started college. I pretty much threw myself into my schoolwork. However, I started doing some research and started reading the writings of former JWs. The first one I read was Carl Jonnsen's book on the Gentile Times. It was extremely well written and well researched. I was impressed.

    By this time, I was having a hard time going from door to door because I could no longer support the nonsense that the JWs teach with regard to the year 1914. Also, during this time, I read books by Ray Franz, Jim Penton, and David Reed.

    I shared the information with my wife who became inactive soon thereafter. Once I graduated from college, I went on to graduate school in Arkansas. I was an inactive JW with no intention of really becoming active again but I was still living in what I like to call limbo so as not to offend any JW relatives.

    About that time in 1995 the change in the generation of 1914 doctrine occurred and I had just recently gotten online and met people like AF, Ros, and others. They seemed to know about the change before it occurred. I got the article and that was the last straw for me.

    My wife and I left the JWs completely within about a year. I received lots of support from my internet ex-JW and internet Christian friends during those very trying years.

    I do not think my exit from the JW cult would have happened as quickly or as smoothly if it had not been for the support network that I received via the internet.

    Jeff S.

  • 2SYN
    2SYN

    His YouKnowness is back! So how was the persecution?

    "Until they become conscious, they will never rebel. Until they rebel, they will never become conscious." - George Orwell

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  • Reborn2002
    Reborn2002

    Robert King returns! Welcome back JW apologist.

    It is not religious persecution for an informed person to expose publicly a certain religion as being false, thus allowing persons to see the difference between false religion and true religion.
    WT 11/15/1963 page 688 paragraph 3

  • out4good3
    out4good3

    Leander

    I understand what you mean. I was warned over and over again by family but I refused to listen. Soon after I was dunked I started seeing first hand the hipocrisy and double dealing that goes on within the WT. The elder I was studying with all of a sudden had more important things to attend to and passed me off to someone else. I guess with me being baptised his yearly quota of providing baptismal candidates was fulfilled. As time went by I saw more and more control of my life being relinquished to what looked good for the image of the society and the congregation. Every decision, however minor, was strained through the conscious of the congregation. It got to the point where I wasn't sure if I was supposed to wipe my a$$ up or down !

    Another relative was always bitter because he felt that he was forced into baptism to protect his elder father's image in the congregation. A sibling of this relative brought up 1975 time and time again. I finally stumbling upon this site around December of last year, at which during that time, the expose on the WT\UN connection was raging. This secret association between the WT\UN once and for all convinced me that the WT is the pinnacle of hipocrisy. I'm currently documenting information and waiting for the right opportunity to bring this issue up to my other JW relatives and watch them squirm.

    I imagine that during this years district assemblies there will be yet another long drawn out talk about guarding against negative association, independent thought, and above all staying away from potentially apostate sites on the internet. The free flow of information I hope will spell doom for cult organizations such as the WT that use fear and intimidation to keep people in check. Those inside will just have to have the guts to check things out for themselves instead of being forcefed watchtower spiritual garbage.

  • FreeFallin
    FreeFallin

    I had doubts at times, but pushed to the back of my mind. When I started lurking here regularly last August, the UN situation was breaking out. After reading and discovering what the Watchtower had done,it felt like a kick in the stomach. I literally was in a daze for several days, almost pulling in front of a car I never saw. All I could feel was betrayal and shock. Now all I feel is anger.

    FreeFallin

  • gumby
    gumby

    YK.."We don't have a clue what real truth is".

    What is Truth?
    We all anxiously await the Dub response.

    Just read the titles of the chapters in any of the 192 page bullcrap books and YK answers should match.

    What is God's name?
    Does your religion really matter?
    Does man have a immortal soul?
    Blah,blah,blah.

    None of the above questions have a rats arse about what the bible say's is truth.

    I won't even bother with the answer the bible gives.
    You have proven yourself braindead way too long on this board.

  • flower
    flower

    I was df'd and out when I did a search on Jw's this past xmas but I was miserable because my mind still belonged to the borg.

    Thank goodness for the internet.

    flower

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