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Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:01:00 GMT |
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Non JW dating and having a child with a DF JW who is trying to go back. |
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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT |
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Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:49:00 GMT |
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In it for 6 years.My teen years that is.Got to see 1975 come and go then I went.Never believed it anyway.Hard to believe its still around.Actually thought for years that I was the only one too see through their crap and lies.Thank technology for the net and the TRUTH.Up yours watchtower!!!!!(not capitalized intentionally) |
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Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:47:00 GMT |
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Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:21:00 GMT |
England, Tyne and Wear |
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Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:29:00 GMT |
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Tue, 01 Jul 2003 15:31:00 GMT |
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DF'd in 1982, reinstated JW with restrictions somewhere around 1993. Moved away from the congregation and just faded into the woodwork in 1994. Practice Lakota (Sioux Indian) traditions and spiritual beliefs. 4th generation of JW's. Great Grandparents were Bible Students under Rutherford, and part of the "annointed". Raised as a JW from birth,father is an elder. That's it in the compact version. |
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Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:46:00 GMT |
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Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:05:00 GMT |
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Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:25:00 GMT |
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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:38:00 GMT |
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I was born into the JW's in '78, left around 17 when I felt there was too much hypocrisy in the religion. I was in congregations in N.B. (Moncton & Fredericton), then Ont (Georgetown & Erin). After I left apparently I was announced as being "disassociated" then there was a talk given about the "dangers of free thought"...I wear that with honour. I'm on a religious path I like now, I'm just trying to rebuild myself so I can cope better. The JW's did quite a number on my young psyche, which is why I think now I suffer so badly from anxiety and agoraphobia.
***My ex-Jw group for Canadian ex-JW's...a chance to find local connections...I do not allow JW's to come and preach to us so no worries :) We welcome different opinions (except the above lol) all we ask is that you are kind to each other.***<br>
http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanXJW/join
I can't figure out how to change my email address here so if you want to email me send it to CrimZenMang0(AT)yahoo.ca replace (AT) with the @ |
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Hello. I am currently an active JW. I don't want to be but the situation I am in doesn't allow me to do anything differently. I have been associated with the Organization since my parents started studying in the early 80s. I was baptized in the late 80s. My parents were both baptized but were never anyone important in the congregation. They were regular rank and file publishers. The most my father ever did was carry the microphone a couple of times.
At the age of 20 I became a ministerial servant, much to the pride and joy of my mother (later I would realize that it was her, not the WTBS version of Yahweh, that I was trying to please). At about the age of 22 I decided that I would reveal my true feelings to my mother and tell her that I no longer wanted to be a JW. She burst into tears and left me feeling horrible. She was miserable for a while but she never said anything to any of the elders. Maybe she didn't want them to boot me.
After a few weeks, during most of which I felt horrible, I decided that I was somehow mistaken and that I really did want to be a JW after all. I was still a MS (because nobody knew anything except my parents). I convinced myself that it really was the Truth. I got my own book study, the first of two I would have during my MS days. Then I got married to a pioneer.
Then we had children (3). For some reason, having children made me begin to realize again that the WTBS wasn't correct at all. Due to moving residence, we switched to another congregation where I did not pursue MS duties. I no longer went out in field service every Saturday. I attend most of the meetings still. I barely comment and I almost never go out in field service.
My wife is a JW zealot. I love her but I no longer love her god (which, contrary to her belief, is not Jehovah but the WTBS). I never did, really. I can't tell her my true feelings because she'd leave me and take the kids. I can't abandon my responsibility and love for my children so I do a very good job of pretending, perpetuating the lie. I don't really have a double life. I life pretty much the life that the Witnesses are instructed to. But that's because I have to. I can't give myself away to the wife.
I feel imprisoned. Tell what I believe to be the truth and lose my wife and children? Or live the lie, feel soulless for the most part, but still exist while able to enjoy my children and my wife?
My parents? Ironically, they don't go to meetings anymore. They are not disfellowshipped, nor have they disassociated themselves. They show up at memorials and at every other district convention, maybe. I have a sister (who is married to a JW). They barely go to meetings either. It's weird. I was the only one that had misgivings about being a witness and I am the only one still going.
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