Being afraid (page 2)

free2think

OMG, thank you brinjen and JK, i thought i was a bit of a freak.

Yeah that used to scare the crap out of me.

jaguarbass

When I was a little girl, I was very afraid of thunderstorms - every time we had one I thought it was Armageadon (did I spell that right?).

So what were you afraid of? What made you think the "BIG A" was here? Or were you anxiously awaiting it?

nj

Nj, I grew up in the 50's and 60's the wactower had this pink Pardise book that showed the people being destroyed at armageadon, being swallowed up by the earth. So storms in my youth would make me think that judgement day was here. I remember back in my youth we would have some weeks of bad wheather which they call a hurricane in Florida, in Cleveland they just call it a week of bad wheather. But when the bad wheather came I would think the end is here. Before I even got started with my life.

Plus with the cold war in the 50's and 60's with Russia and the Cuban missle crissis, throughout my youth in Cleveland, Ohio, the officials were allways practicing air raids, which meant to take cover in your basement from nuclear attack. So, all the air raids, plus fire engine, ambulance sirens drove me crazy.

So even though I am crazy, I can function pretty well, hold down a job, maintain a home, raise a family. I guess crazy is not all its cracked up to be, unless you do something real bad, then its sort of a trump card to get you out of jail.

So in my youth I didnt see the world as a very nurturing or nice place and the wactower was probbaly only 50% to blame, because the cold war and sirens were very real.

And what I live through was cake compared to what the people in Europe lived through with world war 2. It goes on and on. Unless you were raised in a paradise the world can be a scary place. That lets us know we are alive.

greendawn

I wasn't afraid of anything in particular but I wasn't brought up as a JW from childhood. I can imagine what kind of complexes those that grew up in the cult accumulated. The God image projected by the JWs, being so ruthless can seriously harm the psychology of children.

LostorFound

It was the peace and security talk that scared me the most, as well. Funny thing is, until I got older it wasn't becuase of Armagedon that it scared me. It was the events that would precede Armageddon. When the governement turned on religion!

I will never, ever, ever forget the trauma that was inflicted on me at that meeting. At the start of his talk, the brother on stage announced it was now illegal for witnesses to go door-to-door in the United States. I was stunned! This must have been twenty years ago, I was around ten. The fear I felt will never leave me. Fear of what? Well, the torture of course. Time for the persecution to start. Broomsticks up the girl's hoohahs - til they will not go any further (an important detail burned into my mind) and bicycle spokes through the boy's legs.

The horrible fear I had of these things were all about to materialize. Thankfully the society had educated me from a very young age about the torture other witness children endured in other countries. It mentally prepared me to deal with it when my time came. /shiver

Mum

Thunder and lightning were very scary! I lived in the southeastern U.S. It amuses me that my granddaughter now says thunderstorms are her favorite kind of weather when they always terrified me so. She lives in Las Vegas, so it makes sense if you know the weather there.

Regards,

SandraC

Nathan Natas

I'm afraid of the evil clown that lives inside a dresser I bought at a garage sale.

Very afraid!

ex-nj-jw

I was convinced armageddon was right around the corner

I hear it still is right around the corner

nj

daystar

I remember the Paradise book too. What horrid pictures.

I was afraid of thunderstorms too. I mean, what kid isn't? But we had the extra special bonus of associating it with worldwide annihilation. Joy!

No one mentioned tornados. I think I was more afraid of them in this context than I was of thunderstorms. I had terrible nightmares of tornados made of fire, forming lake of blood-red plasma wherever they moved, balls of firey rock raining from the skies...

changeling

When I was little: demons, the dark, earthquakes and lizards.

I'm still very afraid or lizards.

changeling

restrangled

Demons and Spiders.

(I'm still afraid of spiders)!

r.

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