Making You Feel Guilty Is What The Watchtower Does Best!

minimus

That's all they ever do. They beat people up with false "encouragment" to do more. One could NEVER EVER fulfill the Organization's demands. It is impossible. Yet every meeting, every publication, every talk, is designed to motivate you to do more. They want you to give until you have nothing left. If one decided to give everything in death, one's estate to the Watchtower Society, that would be most commendable. Better to give it them than one's own family!

In life, enjoying pleasures is looked down upon. You'll get counseled if you take "too many" vacations. If you have a real fancy 2 seat sportscar, you'll be accepted as "materialistic". If you decide to forgo the "privilege" of pioneering, and take a job instead, you will be dissected.

The result is that many Witnesses just go thru the motions and try to appease the Organization and keep a somewhat healthy social life. Plenty of people pioneer----not because they love it----but because they feel obliged to.

I am soooooooo glad I'm out of this cult.

WTWizard

I never got into pioneering. They tried telling me that the blessings began at that level, after it was moved up to the level beyond the one I had just achieved each time. I knew that pioneering is just doing exactly the same thing you are doing, just more of it (and less of everything else). Which is not my idea of fun.

Once they realized that I would not fall for that, they started hounding. Meaning "Pioneer--or die!"

Gregor

Yep, that's why the Borg is referred to as Mother.

Octarine Prince

The guilt was fine when I thought I was in the "Truth."

No shame in my game once the epiphany came

Finally-Free

Just before my mom died of cancer at 84, she was crying and depressed because she couldn't go out in field service™. It still angers me that she had all that guilt during the last few days of her life.

W

Jeremy C

If you want to truly understand the psychology of the Watchtower leadership, I highly recommend that you do some reading into the research that psychologists have done on what they refer to as "toxic parents". A toxic parent is one who smothers their children with excessive protective measures, attempts to manipulate their likes and dislikes, coerces them into compliance, and continually manipulates them with guilt. Instead of raising a confident, self-reliant, and autonomous individual, a toxic parent attempts to mold their child into a carbon copy of themselves by using disaproval and guilt as a means of punishing independent behavior as they grow up.

Psychologists have noted that parents like this subconsciously do not want their children to grow up out of childhood, because they need to feel needed and in control over someone else. In fact, their is a book out on Amazon that is titled "Toxic Parents". It is a good read, in the context of high control groups. I have noted that the Watchtower organization's leadership engages with it's members in this manner. I wrote a thread on this very topic some time back. Here is the link:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/159650/1.ashx

Dagney

A toxic parent is one who smothers their children with excessive protective measures, attempts to manipulate their likes and dislikes, coerces them into compliance, and continually manipulates them with guilt. Instead of raising a confident, self-reliant, and autonomous individual, a toxic parent attempts to mold their child into a carbon copy of themselves by using disaproval and guilt as a means of punishing independent behavior as they grow up.
Psychologists have noted that parents like this subconsciously do not want their children to grow up out of childhood, because they need to feel needed and in control over someone else.

Hi Jeremy C! How are you?

That was sobering. They trust an organization to dictate their parenting. But then again, almost everybody looks to somebody to help with parenting, and they think they are doing the right thing.

But the result, I well understand.

Guilt is a useless emotion. It has no power over me anymore.

golf2

Your 100% on the money. They are NEVER satisfied, never!

zagor

Funny you should mention it. I've had a conversation with my sister not long ago; she started fuming over a comment made by an elder apparently. It is to do with some elderly lady who needs congregation's help. He never mentioned her by name but basically said that first they need to investigate if someone like that "is worthy enough" to receive congregation's help. Needless to say, she lost her kids because of watchtower and was giving, giving, and giving all her life. How degrading, now at the end of her life they want to investigate if she is worthy enough. So what happens to her if they decide she didn't give enough?!?!?

They basically break your personality into pieces, once they do that they can do with you whatever they want. You are no longer you, but an empty vessel. They deliberately lead you into the state of mind where you feel like shit so whatever you do is never good enough and you did it all for the big J not for them so they can wash their hands off you. I really doubt there has ever been a religion so fundamentally flawed and sick as this one.

minimus

Toxic parents! EXCELLENT!!!!

Making You Feel Guilty Is What The Watchtower Does Best!

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