Very cartoonish.....Unreal, surreal....Like a childs rendition. Too good to be true-ish!
The Watchtower Society is drop dead gorgeous.
by edmond dantes 14 Replies latest jw experiences
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ldrnomo
It sounds like you fell in love with the WT organization's teachings. This quote from Echart Tolle in his book "A New Earth" page 88, seems to be fitting.
"Falling in love" is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to an idea somebody else has about life or rather your image of what life should be like. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever. The Spanish language is the most honest in regard to conventional notions of love: Te quiero means "I want you" as well as "I love you." The other expression for "I love you." te amo, which does not have this ambiguity, is rarely used--perhaps because true love is just as rare.
I changed these phrases to match the feeling for a group instead of a person the real quotes say this
"you become addicted to another person"
or rather "to your own image of that person"
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DanTheMan
.I really thought it was the greatest and only true religion on the planet and in my naive young mind I thought we were living with all the other brothers and sisters in a truly new world society,
Dude you're far from being alone here. I embraced JWism with a naive, even embarrassing enthusiasm. I think that a lot of JW's thought I was a bit odd - here I was 22 years old and embracing the religion with the unfettered, uncritical enthusiasm of a 5 year old.
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shamus100
changes of doctrine which resulted in new light and many, many examples of the lack of true love and care within the so called New World Society. All they were interested in was how many hours you managed to put in each week and whether you were in the clique.The list of reasons not to believe grew endless until at last just as you can fall out of love with someone the love evaporated it just vanished into thin air never to return
And I thought that I was the only one that fell for that Sh*t! I was 110% suckered, boys and ladies. And I gave 110%. It only got me disollusioned and depressed. My conduct was so stupid, in hindsight, I cannot believe I am the same person. I was in a needy time of my life, and had a lot of questions about god. Guess who came to my door? The fishhook landed in my open stupid bobbing mouth. I will never forgive myself for it.
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HSS1971
Whenever I see a WT or AW magazine out in the public I chuck it in the trash just so no innocent person picks it up and starts to read it
I do the exact same thing.