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This is aimed at ex JWs. I'm not interested in hearing from the active ones. For the ex-JWs. When you were having your doubts about being a JW or never really bought into it in the first place. What was your a-ha moment or epiphany that made you decide now is the time to leave? After making that decision and seeing how your life is being out of it. Did you make the decision at the right time or did you did ask yourself why did you wait so long?

I was born into being a JW. So it was all I knew. I never really bought into it. But not doing it while I was growing up was not an option. My a-ha moment was after my sister had been disfellowshipped. I had just turned 18 and graduated.There were some other things going on in our family with  my parents. When I realized that I was no longer being pushed to go meetings. I took that as my cue to exit and never looked back. No regrets about it either

Steph · Accepted Answer

Born into it, left 18 years ago, never really looked back and I definitely don't regret the decision.  I'm happy to be an actual Christian now.

One of the last straws for me was "this generation".  They changed the definition of it yet again when I was on the way out.  It was one of the last straws.  This generation will not pass away... that was a comfort to me when I was a kid because I knew everything would be fine as long as I still had my 1914 generation family.  Well, so much for that.  I can't even imagine being in now and having to accept the new and idiotic "overlapping generations" definition.  I feel really bad for those guys, especially when I know it's a total joke.  I just pray for them a lot.

Brett · Answer

I was born into it. I would say my AHA! moment came after hearing the JWs criticize so many other religions for a variety of ways, it occurred to me that those same criticisms could easily be leveled right back at the cult. That is when I decided to start looking through religious books of ALL denominations, and I then came to the conclusion that all religions were simply selling hope at the price of freedom, ESPECIALLY JWs. Not one of them were able to prove their religion to be truth.

That was my AHA! moment. That, in reality, it was all just bullshit.

Anonymous · Answer

I had been reading the new atheists---Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchins and Harris, and thinking and reasoning on their arguments---and one evening I went to a meeting at the K.H., and came out feeling worse than I went in.  I had been attending for years, and that had never happened before.  Resolved if it happened again, I wouldn't go back.  Next meeting it happening again, and I never went back.

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