What Did You "Become" After Leaving The Watchtower?

by SpannerintheWorks 38 Replies latest jw friends

  • Azalo
    Azalo

    sinner

  • Prisca
    Prisca

    Freer and happier.

  • shamus
    shamus

    Happy, and far less freaky... (I hope...)

  • cruzanheart
    cruzanheart

    Happier. I still believe in God and pray, and I feel closer to God since I left because there's no rules getting in the way of talking to him/her/whatever. I can question his name and even his existence without fear. I figure if he created us in his image then the questions are meant to be there -- that's what propels us to seek knowledge, which is how we learn.

    As our dear District Overbeer says: "It's all good."

    Nina

  • blacksheep
    blacksheep

    Sane.

  • Gordy
    Gordy

    I became free, able to think for myself.

    Not to worry about pleasing some Elder.

    Not having to sit through 5 hours of boring meetings a week.

    Not spending 3/4 days of my summer holiday stuck in some arena listening to endless talks.

    Finding who God and Jesus Christ REALLY were.

    Becoming a Christian.

    Finding tremendous love and support from people who genuinely cared.

  • Maverick
    Maverick

    Like the scarecrow in OZ, wishing, "If I only had a brain!" Still unhooking all the mind-control crap they wired in! Maverick

  • SheilaM
    SheilaM

    I worship at the alter of those I loveI bask in that and nature. I do as I've said look around and believe there is a God I guess I just don't understand why he doesn't want to protect his children as much as I would.

  • crownboy
    crownboy

    Well, I've become a lot of things since shedding the JW's (good things, of course ), but in the context of this thread, I guess I'd choose agnostic (but atheist to the god's that men have hallucinated about and claimed to have recieved "revelations" from).

  • Aztec
    Aztec

    I guess agnostic is the most apropriate term. More applicable is apathetic agnostic. Don't know, don't care..LOL! I took a test and it said I was a secular humanist. I guess that works. :) ~Aztec

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