I grew up listening, and believing for the most part the JW teachings. But as I matured, and starting thinking for myself, I realized the amount of "BULL" they was trying to get me to swallow. So I did the research, and started to have "independant thinking". If you want to read more of my testamoni, here are a couple of links. Hope you enjoy. http://www.jwfiles.com/jws-leaving/tammie.htm http://www.frontiernet.net/~williamz/test/Tammie.htm (Don't click on the to contact, in those two locations, the e-mail address is no longer correct.)