Is There ANYTHING Good About Jehovah's Witnesses? (page 2)

garybuss

In my personal experience, from age 7 to 30, Jehovah's Witness people are largely people who are just unhappy in life and make everything and everybody around them miserable.
They feed on and perpetuate each other's unhappiness.
A well person who is exposed to Jehovah's Witnesses over and over, in time will develop a mirror case of unhappiness. When that unhappiness is reinforced and untreated it becomes a depression or an addiction or a neurotic illness. If it turns into an obsessive compulsive disorder and the obsession is Jehovah's Witness activity, the sick person gets promoted to a position of management within the group and tries to project his obsessive compulsive disorder onto otherwise well people. Those who comply are doomed.
The other common disorder among the Witness adult people is delusions of grandeur. The saint syndrome. Often these people deal with paranoia as well.
So, when we have a paranoid Jehovah's Witness who has delusions of grandeur, and displays measurable symptoms of an obsessive compulsive disorder, all directed at Witness activity, we have what appears to be a zealous, faithful, Apocalyptic, Jehovah's Witness. Witnesses of this type I have known have been able to project a facade of normality.
The unhappy Witness, the obsessive compulsive Witness, the depressed Witness, the delusional Witness, all make up an extremely unhealthy environment and adult children of Witness parents need to be aware that they are not defective. They just have had an experience and it needs to be exposed and reconciled.
We were taught to not trust our own thinking. We were taught our minds were dangerous and we were taught about thought sin. If we can't trust our own minds, we are helpless. Our ONLY means of survival in life is our minds. If we accept the notion that our minds are not trustable, we can't ever investigate he who taught that to us,can we? That's the hook.
My personal experience with Jehovah's Witnesses, the aggregate, was discouraging. I'm extremely glad to be some distance from them.
A better question would be, does the good outweigh the bad? To that I say NO!

prophecor

Gary, you're are saying this to be funny, right/ This is not to be taken so seriously, right, cause I'm laughing my @$$ off over here.

prophecor

I couldn't hear you any more clearer than if I were sitting in your room as you spoke what you did. The truth, although painful, was funny as Hell. I would love to have heard you say that in person. Gary, you 'da Man!!!

garybuss

Ummm, What part was funny, the mirror case or the thought sin?

prophecor

The Mirror case of unhappiness and the Saint Syndrome. I take it in all seriousness, it's just the way you explained it, it sounds so hillarious because I can identify so much with what you said. I too was a crazy, officially, psychiatric nut job, seemingly predestined to find myself in that religion. With many of those characteristic defects you so adaquately described.

The other common disorder among the Witness adult people is delusions of grandeur. The saint syndrome. Often these people deal with paranoia as well.

So, when we have a paranoid Jehovah's Witness who has delusions of grandeur, and displays measurable symptoms of an obsessive compulsive disorder, all directed at Witness activity, we have what appears to be a zealous, faithful, Apocalyptic, Jehovah's Witness. Witnesses of this type I have known have been able to project a facade of normality.

The unhappy Witness, the obsessive compulsive Witness, the depressed Witness, the delusional Witness, all make up an extremely unhealthy environment

I am only now begining to experience some of the healing that has taken so much time to come to. The healing is amazing, when I take into consideration how much my life has been so adversely affected by the insanity of programming that goes on in the Kingdom Hall.

lucifer

well, they help you touch up on your cleaning skills by letting you have the privledge of cleaning the hall toilets

prophecor

well, they help you touch up on your cleaning skills by letting you have the privilege of cleaning the hall toilets

Hey, watch it there Lucy Lu, with my guilt ridden, self seeking attempt at maintaining any and all semblances of false humility, I took that job rather seriously. Service with a smile

blondie

As a group or as individuals?

I grew up in Germany and even after WW2 there were Germans that felt that Hitler had done good things for Germany. Of course, they did not outweigh all the bad he had done.

As individuals, I have found some JWs that truly try to live a life of showing love and kindness to everyone. Most block out the bad that they see done in the name of God in the organization. I used to be like that. I used to try and fix the organization in whatever small way I could, setting a good example, eventually distancing myself mentally.

Nothing is that black and white. What is bad about the organization cannot be pinned to one individual or several individuals; it is an aura that transcends, a group gestalt if I'm using that term correctly. Change out the individuals and the aura remains.

Blondie

slugga

Ehhhhhh...

Apparently dub girls are dirty and not in the smelly way

:)

Legolas

Thinking

(Slugga...I miss the bucket)

Is There ANYTHING Good About Jehovah's Witnesses?

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