Greatest Lesson You Have Learned from Your WT Experience?

I don't mean for this to be too deep, but has anyone given serious thought to what it was that appealed to you about JW's? What was it about your/my personality that made it ok to believe that all but a few million were going to be slaughtered by the Almighty YHWH, that is was ok to DF and shun people?

What is it about us that led us to accept it?

For sure, there is great culpability in how JW's frame and then shove the debate down ones throat. They don't tell the truth about themselves, and certainly, all of us were lied to.

But even given that, we still bought it at some level.

For my part, my ego was well fed, being an elder and getting to go to Gilead. Thats what I got out of it. And I learned something very valuable about myself: I wanted power, I wanted prestige, and I liked the attention I got.

That isn't to say that as I matured, I didn't try to help people either, or even protect some JW's from the hardline GB stance on some things. But even as I matured, what I got out of it fed a particular ego problem that I needed to address so that I could grow.

I feel as if others might be drawn to a dogmatic religion, being dogmatic themselves.

Others adopt a "Fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you" mentality in their post JW existence.

In other words, I don't think there is one lesson outside of ourselves to learn, I think the biggest lesson to learn is what you learned about yourself while a JW.

caliber

Even great truths can be somehow be twisted and slanted depending of the authors motivation and intent.

Things can be justified in our own minds because of the need for inner harmony , peace and sense of purpose

and some future prospect where all things make sense !

As for a rule to follow I think there is none better than "Leavingwt" rule Good rule buddy !

"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence."

Caliber

OnTheWayOut

I will chime in with the crowd and follow LWT's rule:

"Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence."

Also, "There's one born every minute." So doubt everything I hear.

undercover

Greatest lesson learned...

Hmmm, don't know if it's the greatest one but it kind of hit home that I'm not part of some grand scheme. I'm not part of a small chosen group destined to see the end of the world as we know it and live to talk about it and be part of the winning side.

I'm just one of 7 billion people on the planet that will live a simple life, hope to see old age, hope to die fulfilled and nothing extraordinary is ever going to happen to me.

Once you accept that reality, it's hard for anyone to convince you with outlandish claims of living forever or floating away on a cloud to see a mythological character.

I've learned to neither give credit to nor put blame on imaginary creatures for my troubles or the good that happens. I have to make my own way through life. No one is going to intervene and fix everything and make things easeir. If I make bad decisions, I have to deal with it. If I make good ones, then I can enjoy the fruits of my toil without having to pretend that some invisible force made it possible.

Greatest Lesson You Have Learned from Your WT Experience?

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