How many found the REAL truth from the internet?

by Leander 61 Replies latest jw friends

  • gumby
    gumby

    Dantheman: Hey!!!!I saw your post!

    I'm happy for you that you are one of the lucky ones.

    Peace....

  • In_between_days
    In_between_days

    Yep, the internet did it for me!!!

    Like many others responding on this thread, I was completely terrified when I stumbled on www.jehovahswitness.com, but because I had for years been slowly fading away (still believed it was the truth, never the less) I dared myself to read on.

    I went through stages really, it took me a while to actually figure out what the hell people were talking about (U.N and child abuse scandals) I had never heard of these things inside the organisation.

    I gaped and gasped, got angry and deemed this board one "full of liars"

    but.....

    I could'nt stop thinking about it... I had to find out, so I did my own research.

    Well you can guess what happened next.

    I would say that I went through stages:
    1. Fear:

    - Someone (a JW) is going to find out i'm on the board and crucify me, oops I mean stake me.
    _ I had to keep looking over my shoulder even though I do not live with my JW family and have no reason to be on the lookout.
    _ I kept to this forum a long time before I ventured onto the other "apostate" sites. (dont ask me why, I guess in my deranged state of mind at the time, I thought it was "less" apostate than others?!!)
    _ Of course, fear of discovering the "Real Truth"

    2. Realisation

    - Feeling sick and suffering from insomnia, checking the board practically every 3 hours.
    _ Nightmare after nightmare
    _ Raving to my partner as soon as I got home from work and before I go to work, and all night and whatever spare time I possibly had, asking him if I was making the right decision, Telling him about what i'd found on the board, ect.

    3. Blabbing

    This happens to be something I really regret:

    - Writing endless (and futile) letters to my family, spouting "apostate" talk to my freinds, hence experiencing THE WALL, big time.

    And now?

    Freedom and peace of mind.... nearly.

    So yes, I was an internet leaver.

  • bchapp
    bchapp

    To anybody who cares, I have an announcement to make. After reviewing all the great information on the internet and on this board, and with much praying and bible reading, I have made up my mind to stop studying. I have written a letter to the Sister I have been studying with explaining why (cowardly, I know but that's kinda the way I am)I have packed up all the books I've been given (what to do with them? burn them maybe? No just kidding) I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that has responded to my posts.
    Peace and Love be with you :)

  • Angharad
    Angharad

    Simon discovered the real truth on the internet and then got me out too.

  • jerome
    jerome

    Ang

    How long did it take for Simon to get you out?

    jerome

    The Bible is a two edged sword wield it for evil and there may be hell to pay.

  • Sunchild
    Sunchild

    I got out and STAYED out thanks to the Internet, too. I owe Freeminds.org and Randy a great debt of thanks.

    *Rochelle.

    ---------
    "I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
    -- Professor Severus Snape, Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone.

  • Angharad
    Angharad

    Cant remember exactly Jerome! I refused point blank to listen to anything for a while - then I started looking at a few things while he wasnt around and then I admitted to him he may have a point and started looking into it properly myself and with Simon. It was probably altogether about six months-ish

  • jerome
    jerome

    I know what you mean about the refusing to read anything point blank.

    Thanks alot for that little insight it help to get some motivation.

    Oh and thanks for deleting that post.

    jerome

  • Joyzabel
    Joyzabel

    My hubby, jst2laws, gave the service meeting part 2 years ago about the danger of the internet and then ran and looked at what was so dangerous! He found chapters of CoC and ordered his own copy. He would look up in his wt library (he has all the old books and boolets, bound volumes back to the 1940s) different quotes he came across and realized the tr00th about the tr00th was there.

    He then slowly dropped hints to me about what he was reading, especially the mistreatment of people by the borg. I read all the books I could get my hands on and then I came to this site for emotional support while we faded this last year.

    I have more friends on the net now than I had the last several years in the borg. Thank you one and all. (I already thanked Simon and Angharad on another thread.)

    Hugs,
    j2bf

  • dungbeetle
    dungbeetle

    You gotta love this religion:

    I was going through a reinstatemnt process, and wanted more information as to what to do becasue the elders were being totally unhelpful (that's their job right? be unhelpful...)

    Anyway, I stumbled across Tishies's old board, and then someone put up a link to H20, and then someone there put up a link to JW.COM.

    Something that absolutely amazed me, was when reading 'The Gentile Times..' was that this thing about the "time and times and half a time, 1260 days and a day for a year" crapola had been going on since 500 A. friggin' D.

    That's 1400 years before C.T.Russell hit the world with his new Bible interpretations and the whole has never been the same. Anyway, I was so amazed because Ithought 'we' were 'special'.

    We was 'special' all right..

    hugs to everyone who posted on those boards, keep up the good work!!!!

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