leaving free witness free Leaving the pdf Leaving the Witness KindleSelytizer in Shanghai using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores To support herself she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast hiding her real purpose from her coworkers Now with a creative outlet getting to know worldly people for the first time she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life When one of these relationships became an escape hatch Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witnes.
Selytizer in Shanghai using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores To support herself she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast hiding her real purpose from her coworkers Now with a creative outlet getting to know worldly people for the first time she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life When one of these relationships became an escape hatch Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witnes.
[Download] ➾ Leaving the Witness Author Amber Scorah – Rildem.co A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countriesA third generation Jehovah's Witness Amber Scorah had devoted her life tA riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countriesA third generation Jehovah's Witness Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon She volunteered to take the message to China where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse Here she had some distance from her community for the first time Immersion in a foreign language and culture and a whole new way of thinking turned her world upside down and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was trueAs a pro.
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ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness KindleAmber Scorah’s memoir about leaving one of the most controlling and restrictive of religious organizations the Jehovah’s Witnesses— a movement that Canadian academic M James Penton characterizes as “alienated from the world” and “hostile to society in general”—appears to have grown out of an article published in the American bimonthly magazine The Believer Ironically it was Scorah’s travelling with her Jehovah’s Witness husband as a “missionary pioneer” to China the largest totalitarian country in the world that allowed her to escape the extreme end of days religious sect and her moribund marriage Jehovah’s Witnesses are banned in China In order for members to operate there the organization’s normally rigid structures and dictates eg thrice weekly meetings have to be relaxed Witnesses must function under the radar of the government They must first form “worldly” friendships with Chinese citizens slyly sussing out early on
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ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness KindleThis was a really interesting memoir but there were a lot of threads that did not come together for me She's introspective about leaving her faith but she is not as introspective about her loveless marriage and her dependence on men in every realm of her experience The end was just thrown on and I won't spoil it but I just did not at all see it coming and it felt like the entire book could have been written about that because she has her biggest insights about religion then The book lacked a cohesive thread perhaps because she depicts herself as a non agent in a lot of the book
ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness KindleI was not raised as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses but at the age of 18 I became convinced that they had “the Truth” But college my friends especially THAT girl and my mother’s hopes for my future delayed my decision to “give it all up for Jehovah” But a terrible experience with drugs convinced me that the only way to find happiness was to commit fully to being a Jehovah’s Witnesses at age 20 Commitment meant dropping out of college even though my education was fully paid for by means of a grant I’d received The hardest part was saying good bye to my friends though after my clumsy attempts at proselytizing they were probably glad to be rid of me After baptism I became what was called a Pioneer one who committed to spending one hundred hours a month in the prea
ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness Kindle If not for all that had happened here I would not have left my religion I would certainly still be a Jehovah's Witness had I not come to this country and learned its ways Perhaps I
ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness KindleI was raised a Jehovah's Witness and left the religion when I was 19 Reading this book felt like someone plucked all the thoughts that I had back then but never had the courage to articulate One example When she describes the mind numbing ritual of district conventions she says that she wished she had a baby so she had an excuse to get up and wander around I ALWAYS thought that I could not stop laughing about that shared commiseration This was a triggering but important book for me I cannot speak to how someone with no exposure with this religion might experience this book but I can say this it took incredible bravery for her to write this She is also funny articulate a great story teller and incredibly erudite for someone who was denied upper educati
ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness Kindle Leaving the Witness Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life is the solidly written memoir of writer podcaster and former Jehovah’s Witness missionary Amber Scorah Raised as a third generation Witness and in a loveless marriage she convinces her husband and the elders of the church to let her move to Asia – a lifelong dream – with her and her husband as missionaries of course After a stay in Taiwan she and her husband land in Shanghai where Amber – an inherent introvert – finds she has only a fair to middling aptitude for proselytizing very illegal in China but that she has a great talent for podcasting Eventually her exposure to the world outside her religion with which she had so little previous experience opens her eyes to the fact that not eve
ePUB Amber Scorah ´ Leaving the Witness Kindle ↠ Leaving the PDF or ´ leaving free, witness free, Leaving the pdf, Leaving the Witness Kindle25 Really wanted to love this book I bought it immediately after hearing the author’s interview on Fresh Air because the wait at the library was too long The book really needed a good editor Scorah is a good writer but there was uite a bit of repetition and perhaps it some of it could’ve been avoided if it was written a linear fashion instead of going back and forth in time Yes we get it you didn’t go to college and finding a job is hard because JW tells you not to focus on the future This was brought up so many times I stopped feeling sympa