by yaddayadda 41 Replies latest jw friends
honestly think anyone that spends more than half an hour per day on anti-JW sites like this is, psychologically, not out of the organisation at all, despite their best protests
I'd be interested to know how you arrived at that conclusion, please tell.
Anyway, why do you come here? Are you addicted?
Yadda,
My coming here has absolutely nothing to do with having any unhealed part or psychoanalytical reason related to Watchtower. I come here because I'd like to help others as I was helped - but, at the same time, I absorb tremendous information from the likes of AlanF on evolution and ancient bible history. There's more to this site than just healing from Watchtower scars. It's a place to associate with friends.
In all seriousness, I could leave this place tomorrow. I stay because I genuinely enjoy it here.
Ian
Maybe we ARE all nuts-but that begs the question-does the WT attract nuts or create them? Hmmm.
I think it was Dieter Rohmann (Germany counterpart of Steven Hassan, http://www.kulte.de) who stated that it takes you as much time as you were in the cult to really get over it. BTW, today I read that a huge number of Americans are addicted to the Internet. (Could be similar in other countries but the study was done in the US.)
I've read most of the posts and I think everyone has a truly valid point. As some have stated when you have been a member of that org. as in my case over 30 years it leaves a brand on your psyche and doesn't go away easily. especially if you have been shunned by family or loved ones. so I will plagerize a line from a previous poster this is my methadone for the heroin addiction of organized controlling religion.
Now, really, who the hell cares if someone spends 24 seconds or 24 hours on this site, or any other site? Everyone who is/was a witness will never be free of the teachings.............EVER.
Warlock
They have simply swapped mental slavery to a religious organisation for mental slavery to a religious website. So the question is: until the day comes when you finally stop feeding your JW website addiction, can you really, honestly, say you are FREE from the Watchtower???
Fair enough question. And there is some validity to your argument that some have traded enslavement to the WTS for enslavement about talking about the WTS.
But everyone has different situations and what you might consider obsessive may not be to others. Some here are having a very difficult time with their JW family and the pressure put upon them to conform to the JW way of living. Their coming here help them cope because, in a way, we act as a support group for each other.
I personally come from a fairly large JW family and I'm the first to become inactive and fall away. While I manage to deflect a lot of what many others have to deal with, the JW lifestyle and way of thinking is a part of who I was and where I came from. I can't just leave it behind, unless I want to leave behind my family, who I love and who I want to help. I have periods of no thoughts about JWs and the WTS and then I have periods where my family is pressuring me. I don't come here as often as I used to, but from time to time I like to check in and see what's happening and sometimes I need the encouragement of those who know what I'm going through and understand.
I'm over thiry minutes today, so I guess in your book thats obsessive, but then, I spent an hour on my fantasy hockey team today...is that obsessive?
You're right, yadda. I AM addicted to this site. How could I not see it before? I'm addicted to all of the compassionate, interesting, intelligent people here. And I come here to keep up with new WTS developments because of how they might impact my elderly JW parents. How could I have fallen so low? Help, yadda! What should I do?
The thread on how long it took you to get out of the organisation made me think. I honestly think anyone that spends more than half an hour per day on anti-JW sites like this is, psychologically, not out of the organisation at all, despite their best protests.
Probably not but you have to go on with life and it takes a while to get rid of the cancerous crap we and you have been fed. So wake up smell the flowers and enjoy life and look for the beauty in everything
I spend more time on www.pogo.com then I do here. So, what does that make me? It makes me have a flat fat arse!
Oh yeah and good luck with that addiction theory ya got going there! You ought to put some research behind the internet and religious addiction.
I working on using all the terms that I wasn't suppose to use. Merry Christmas, Happy Halloween, Happy Mother's Day, Good Luck, God Bless You, WTF, that's a bunch of malarkey, Jeez knees, Holy crap, and on an on. . . Anything to avoid giving praise to the GB (Good ol' Boys at the Watchtower)!
