Were you ever a victim of jealousy?

Frequent_Fader_Miles

Were you ever a victim of jealousy in the congregation? J-dubs love to portray their gatherings as a "spiritual paradise", while in truth and in fact they're actually more like a "Cain and Abel" sitcom.

compound complex

Good Morning, Frequent -

An excellent, but troubling, subject. Many of us can answer YES to your question. But, to be fair, we who are "victims" can likewise show traits of Old Green Eyes. As I get older, that nasty aspect of the personality and its ugly manifestations seem gone, vaporized. Competition, rivalry and envy are so unnecessary and wasteful. I wish I had been so mentally and emotionally well-adjusted 20 years ago, but then there would've been nothing to grow out of.

Yes - there was too much of the above in the congo. Maybe some examples will be forthcoming!

Thanks and a good day to you!

CoCo

Nowman

Yes, yes, yes! In fact, one time I moved to a new congregation, this girl I knew from the circuit wound up being at my new hall, she approached me and said "Nikki, I used to HATE you because you are pretty". I was 17 at the time, I had the same insercurities as any teenager would at that age. I remember feeling terrible about what she said. Yet, we later became good friends, but then she started recording music for me on tapes like every other day, it was kind of weird. Shortly after that, I left the org.

Nikki

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Heaps of brothers were jealous of me because I was rather popular with some sisters, being intelligent with a fun sense of humour and kinda cute too (if I do say so myself) yet I couldn't give the elders and miserable servants the time of day, being a bit of a rebel. Sisters either seemed to go for the organisationally ambitious, good-boy types (pioneers, elders, MS school graduates) or those who liked to walk the line a bit like me. But most of the time I just scared the brothers away by the sheer force of my personality. Hehe those were the days.

Now I'm approaching middle-age and suffering from career retardation and stunted relationship development due to a life-time of responsibility avoidance stemming from the firm belief that end of the system was near.

Mysterious

No I don't think I had anything anyone was jealous about. I was often jealous of those whose parents would let them do things I wasn't allowed to do..like join hockey teams, or go on band trips, or watch certain movies.