Does the JW mindset ever leave totaley leave you ????? (page 2)

RubaDub

I still feel guilty when I use more than one towel in a public restroom.

Rub a Dub

I`ve been out for decades..Stuff still pops up in my mind,from when I was a DubKid.....It`s like a Frigg`n Tattoo!!....Is there any place I can get this Crap Laser`d off my Brain?!!!................ Laughing Mutley ...OUTLAW

S3RAPH1M

I still refer to them as 'brothers' 'sisters', but I've only been out by a few months, so time will tell.

buckster

For the most part. Little pieces of obsurd crap linger and you may not even realize.

My favorite thing that lingers is a quote from a Dictate Assembly talk "Doubt is the start of falling out."

Boy did that get me thinking. I was about 14 at the time and had been a double life specialist. Not only couldn't I check out something but I couldn't even begin to question? Yep, I didn't fit.

Hear that quote in my head all the time. Glad I heard it and listened.

theinfamousone

I'd like to say that the mindset has left me entirely... that i live my life without ever thinking of what the elders might think... the problem is, i actually act in a way that would make them mad, just to spite the entire organization... so i guess the mindset never will fully leave me... in the sense that it comes back to me to remind how i should act, the way that makes me feel good :) the infamous one

flipper

In time I have found I stopped calling it " the truth " a couple years after I got out. I've been out 5 years. I agree with what Blondie said : The lingo is hard to shake, but as time goes on to me it gets easier. I find it incredibly weird now to hear somebody call the governing body, " the faithful and discreet slave ". Now it sounds so conceited and arrogant for them to think these men are that slave.

But my mind is much more free now. The JW mindset is very much faded away in me. I think more with an open mind now. You will find that in time you will too. Just do a lot of reading of other books and that stuff will get in your mind

hillary_step

Perhaps it is harder for those who were raised as JW's as their most formative years were submerged in cultic thinking.

I was not 'born in' and actually found that I lost the mindset, ever after a couple of decades or so as a JW, almost overnight. It was actually a surprise to me just how quickly this happened. I also left Bible belief behind within months of my exit, which was one of the most liberating moments of my life.

HS

cognizant dissident

I was "born in" and I agree it is harder to shake the conditioning when it has been instilled since infancy often replete with abusive techniques for psychological programming (instilling of fears and terrors). To be fair, many strict religions use this type of psychological conditioning on little children, including Catholic and Protestant denominations. Get em while they are young and you have a better chance of having a member for life.

Most religious training of children is abusive in some way, IMO.

Cog

noni1974

I found it easy to stop thinking like a JW because I never really thought like one in the first place. I was born in and I think the hardest thing for me to change has been not calling people older than me by there first names. That was a rule in my parents house. I had to call older people brother or sister or if they were really close to us aunt and uncle. Now I call people by there first names.

smiddy

It may depend on the degree of belief when you came in.Some become involved because of family connecections others are born into the religion and the others,like myself were converts.I think converts are more dedicated to their beleifs than the forementioned,solely because they are more inclined to study more deeply,become more ingrained deeply(indocrinated)than those influenced by family members which can be more emotionally affected.I have no problem now recognising JW`s as a cult or dismissing their beliefs in general,but their are times when I get that eerie feeling about certain topics,and I faded 15 years ago.I was in 33yrs and was a MS for many yrs.Needless to say like many of you I truly beleived it(hook line & sinker) for all those years.

Does the JW mindset ever leave totaley leave you ?????

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