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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  Sail Away

  Also, with my family's example, even though our children left after far fewer years in than we did, their exits were in no way related to use of the Internet, nor were my husband's and mine. There does seem to be a flaw in the premise of the OP.
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  Sail Away

  I copied my original post for you above. Not sure how you want to do the math. Yes, hubby began his fade approximately 5 years in to our marriage in 1984. He was baptized in 1965.

  *You based your guesstimate on a post that is over 4 years old. ;)
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  3. 
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  Sail Away

  
  

  Sail Awayan hour ago

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?
  

  Converted at age 9

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized in 1976, age 16 (I would have been baptized at age 10 if my father had allowed it.)

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  2011

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  35 years from baptism to exit

  Mr. Sail Away:

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?

  Converted at age 5 with parents

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized age 14, 1965

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  Left 1984

  Learned TTAT 2012

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  Physically in baptism to exit 19 years

  Mentally in from baptism to learning TTAT 47 years
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  2. 
  3. 
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  Sail Away

  Thank you, Sail Away!
  How about the answers for yourself and Mr. Sail Away?

  Scroll back several posts. They are in a separate, earlier post.
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

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  2. 
  3. 
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  Sail Away

  Sail Away's daughter:
  

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?

  Raised in

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized age 14, 1995

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  Left age 17, 1998

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  17 years total. Baptized (due to peer pressure) 3 years, never a believer. Internet played no role in exit.

  Sail Away's son:
  

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?

  Raised in

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized age 14, 1998

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  Disfellowshipped age 24, 2008

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  24 years total. Baptized 10 years. Internet played no role in exit.

  NOTE: The Internet played no role in my exit or in Mr. Sail Away's either, but it's how we learned TTAT after our exits. See earlier post.
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  Survey: How long were you in the cult vs what year you were baptized

  by ILoveTTATT2 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  hi people,.

  i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).

  1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  Sail Away

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?
  

  Converted at age 9

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized in 1976, age 16 (I would have been baptized at age 10 if my father had allowed it.)

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  2011

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  35 years from baptism to exit

  Mr. Sail Away:

  1) were you raised as a JW, or did you convert?

  Converted at age 5 with parents

  2) when were you baptized/started seriously being with the witnesses? (Date please, i.e. 1997)

  Baptized age 14, 1965

  3) when did you leave/woke up completely? (date please, i.e. 2013)

  Left 1984

  Learned TTAT 2012

  Please do the time difference between 2 and 3...

  Physically in baptism to exit 19 years

  Mentally in from baptism to learning TTAT 47 years
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  YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

  but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

  i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.

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  Sail Away

  Double post-- cell phone.
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  YMCA ? Are we allowed to go there or not?

  by Quarterback in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  half of our congregation goes there to work out because of the good pool facilities and prices, and the other half think that it's wrong due to it's old charter.

  but no one is enforcing the wrong or right of it.

  i'd be interested in knowing how this is being applied worldwide.

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  Sail Away

  Strictly forbidden-- no YMCA memberships or yoga in my former congo on NE Coast, USA. Some of the pioneer sisters who were putting on weight from riding around in cars all day in between coffee breaks were sorely tried by these restrictions. It was an issue. Some went ahead and took yoga anyway. I was never one to rat anyone out.
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  Happy Thanksgiving!

  by Oubliette in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  happy thanksgiving everyone!

  i know that we are an international group here and that thanksgiving is an american holiday (and not even all of us in the us celebrate it), but i thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to sharing the many things we have to be thankful for: .

  i am thankful for: .

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  Sail Away

  Happy Thanksgiving Oubliette!

  I'm thankful that, in spite of great distances, we were able to have family time for Thanksgiving. We drove down to Annapolis, MD from Connecticut to be with our son. He and I cooked a fantastic dinner together. Then we called my daughter in Guatemala City and had a video chat with my husband, son, daughter, grandson and I. We got to see my grandson crawl for the first time. Best Thanksgiving ever! Can't wait for Christmas in Guatemala! I can't believe I lived my first 52 years in life without holidays.
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  Yeah, my parents plan to will everything to this parasitic organization and forsake their seed

  by Phaedra in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  yeah, they'll leave it all, their home, savings, etc.. never mind helping out their struggling children who never had a chance.. fuck this organization and everything it stands for when its members think god will favor them more by willing everything to a corporation instead of their own struggling seed..

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  Sail Away

  So sorry, Phaedra. It's the way cults roll. My JW in-laws expressly wrote their only child out of their wills decades ago. The WTBTS takes all of a million dollar plus estate. We are into the third generation of shunning in our family. No sense being angry; it won't change a thing. Sadly, my FIL who accepts brief calls for "necessary family business" only, asked my husband to convey their love to their grandchildren and great grandson, but our kids simply don't care. Why should they? They never knew their grandparents who were too busy shunning their own son for nearly 45 years, and now they are shunning them as well. It's a shame to be in your 90's and have no family connections because of a doomsday cult.