Do You Think You Are NOW Screwed Up Because You Were A Witness? (page 3)

I know that I am screwed up! Even to this day (been DF'd for 16 yrs.). Lot better than I used to be though. I'm wondering if the level that a person is "screwed up" relates to the amount of time that he/she spent in the JW's? I was raised as a JW, thus years and years of "programming". Do you think that if a person gets involved in the witlesses later in life and gets out after 3-4 years can escape less damaged?

misanthropic

Nope- I feel bad for the witnesses because they're the ones that are "screwed up".

R.F.

I don't feel that i'm screwed up. Sure, there's the possiblity that some things about me would be different if I wasn't raised in the Organization, but I don't think I have real major issues in my life because of it, or minor things that can't be changed as I continue on.

R.F.

Finally-Free

I was screwed up before I was a JW. I was more screwed up as a JW. I'm less screwed up now.

W

Numinous

I get more offended than others when I feel that I am being controlled or told what I can do or can't do. I tend to assume I am wrong whenever a problem comes up. These feelings are related to my JW experiences, along with an ability to easily recognise propaganda.

wha happened?

to some degree yes. Trust issues mainly. I was never much of a trusting person to begin with and I allowed myself to trust others when I became a JW. By experience I learned that a trusting individual in this organization can get burned.

anewme

I am not screwed up NOW. But I was a very confused person with a distorted view of the world and my place in it while a witness.

It was as if I was under a spell from the many fables, stories and Egyptian numerology hallucinations of old men I was persuaded to believe.

Day after day, week after week, year after year of doom and gloom and a mean God whose limited mercy and patience would come to an end in the fiery death of billions finally got to me.

I cracked.

This was not the God nor the life I had sought for myself.

Now I am working and going to school and positive. And I am looking forward to a successful life and enjoying my life on this earth instead of being miserable and spreading misery.

morganphoenix

Compared to what? What is naormal?

Normal is a setting on the dryer. Normal is also a town in Illinois. As for me, I have always been screwed up or maybe I should say I have always been eccentric

White Dove

Anewme,

Out of all of the posts on this thread, I identify with yours the most. I am much less if not at all screwed up compared to what I was in the org. I'm going to school and making something of myself. My dream is to be a tax paying contributing member of society so I can respect and live with myself. Life is so much better now. I respect people so much more than I did. I had no respect for non-JW's. Rejecting 99.9% of the population of my planet is not a moral way to live. It's no life at all. I love life now:)

Chenoa:)

Do You Think You Are NOW Screwed Up Because You Were A Witness?

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