Is it possible for someone to "Love being a JW"?

by JH 41 Replies latest jw friends

  • reneeisorym
    reneeisorym

    I only thought I was happy.

    Now that I'm out I know what real happiness feels like. Maybe you haven't found real happiness yet to realize that you were unhappy?

  • 5thGeneration
    5thGeneration

    Okay. So it's semantics then.

    You say you 'thought' you were happy. So then you are basically saying that at the time you 'were' happy and that's all I was saying.

    I will officially rephrase my position... I believe most Jehovah's Witnesses 'think' they are happy.

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    JH: ***"How can a person love to be a JW" when so many others just "hate" being in that religion?***

    They don't love it; they lie. Whenever any nonJW asks if JWs are happy, the answer is always "of course!" It's called theocratic warfare, remember?

  • 5thGeneration
    5thGeneration

    Okay, I capitulate.

    6 million JWs are all in fact miserable and just pretending to believe in their faith and in what they are doing.

    I was wrong.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    If you don`t want God to kill you,you will love being a JW..The WBT$ says so!..They made God cancell Armageddon in 1975..If it wasn`t for the WBT$,God wouldn`t have a job!...OUTLAW

  • fullofdoubtnow
    fullofdoubtnow

    I used to enjoy it, but I'm not sure I ever really loved it. I was conditioned to say I did, but once the brainwashing started to wear off, I realised I didn't really love it.

  • fokyc
    fokyc

    My wife loves, YES loves being a JW, any meeting, assembly or convention comes before anything else!

    over 50 years she can't be wrong, can she?

    Every spare minute of every day she reads the bible or the soc. literature!

    Where did I go wrong ?

    fokyc

  • greendawn
    greendawn

    Yes it is possible if they view the JW society as a social club and don't take very seriously their duties to the org, also think of an employer he knows fellow JWs will most probably be honest as his staff and that gives him a lot of peace. There are also people that like to be dominated and dictated to, it is an infantile sort of desire.

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    When I cornered a pre-75 brought in JW and reminded her of the stuff that the WT had said prior to 1975 all she could come up with to defend herself and her religion with was.....

    "Well, it's a good lifestyle and we enjoy it!"

  • Honesty
    Honesty

    Being a JW, I:

    Never could please anyone.

    Always felt guilty.

    Hated to have to be in a car group and listen to the gossip.

    The list goes on and on into infinity.

    I'm happy now and FREE from enslavement to a demon cult.

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