Making You Feel Guilty Is What The Watchtower Does Best!

by minimus 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  Mandette

  I remember leaving the meetings in tears. Sobbing all the way home. I could never measure up. I was never able to do enough. I wasn't good enough. I didn't have the right job(an elder told me this). I should quit my full time job and move home with my parents(HUH?). My job wasn't encouraging enough. When I asked them about the full time pioneer that worked at the same place, they said it was different because she's a PIONEER.

  Tons of guilt, double standards, etc.

  It's interesting that once I got away that while I still had some mild depression, the sobbing and despair went away. HMMMMMM.....

  Mandette
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  minimus

  The mentality of the Witnesses is the problem. NUTHIN' is ever good enuf!
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  White Dove

  Even when I was pioneering and deeply into it, I heard a tiny voice tell me...but there's a limit to what people can do...but the Bible doesn't say that...but it's just innocent fun...this is stupid...how in the world would they catch oral sex?...Where did they get this information?...How could they possibly know that unless an angel told them?...Angels don't speak to people so how do they know God said it when it's not in the Bible?...But Thanksgiving is really a good thing!
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  undercover

  I know I've told this story before but one of the things that pushed me out was a COs visit where he admonished the congregation for not doing enough.

  He said in his Thursday night talk, (paraphrased) that if we were'nt doing everything possible in Jehovah's service, then why bother doing anything at all? I thought...good point...so I stopped. I was done. I never felt good enough or felt I was doing enough. I already had some doubts. Thanks to that CO, it pushed me right out the door. I guess I should thank him...
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  minimus

  Undercover, you're so literal!
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  NewYork44M

  Q.

  Why does religion use guilt to get things done?

  A.

  Because it works.

  When I left I decided I would never be guilty again. I take responsibility for my life. Religion (especially the jw religion) does not work under this framework.