Greatest Lesson You Have Learned from Your WT Experience? (page 4)

Robert7

Question everything

Don't trust anyone in power

Don't take anything at face value

SnakesInTheTower

happydad:

I learned that a fly will land on shit as well as a pie. So, you better take time and examine something to make sure it is really true or just shit!!

and I will add: "Don't let a fly land on you because you dont know where its little fly feet were last."

In all seriousness, I had trust issues growing up a dub... its hard to trust people post Dubville. I will never belong to a religion ever again. I have a heck of a time just trying to be employed because there are too many in management that remind me of elders.

It is why I like one aspect of my current job... I am in the field 98% of the time and in the office 2%...and of that 2% I rarely encounter management.

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BluesBrother

They said "You Can Live Forever In Paradise, On Earth" & "Millions Now Living [in the twenties] Will Never Die"

Lesson ? - If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is !

What has it done for me? like many others in this thread, I trust no one and will question authority..Undercover's advice to his young friend was right on the nail..

mostlydead

I always had questions and doubts that were unsettled growing up and functioning in the organization for 40 years. I didn't give them any credence at the time, figured I was the one in the wrong, or didn't understand fully, or didn't have all the facts, etc. Not trusting my own eyes, ears and gut is what kept me in for so long. I won't ever let anyone ever tell me again that I don't see what I see or know what I know. And I won't be involved with groups of people who have a priesthood with exclusive knowledge and authority.

Quandry

That you really CAN "put on a new personality" and when I finally awakened, I realized that I hadn't been myself for over thirty years.

Scarred for life

This is a great thread. I've learned a lot. Very insightful discussion.

Lieu

Even if you know the world is round, say its flat unless you want to be labeled a 'heretic'.

Slips of paper are more important than humans.

Labels can be used for people as well as food stuffs.

On a positive note, I learned how to truly treat and help other people simply by doing the opposite of the WT.

Scarred for life

I learned after I left the JWs that there are churches and religions that have a positive message and outlook. I learned there are families that celebrate life events and rejoice in each others accomplishments. I learned that the JW world is very, very small and narrow and tries to keep you down.

The JW life gave me something to compare and I run from any organization or group of people that remind me of JWs.

cameo-d

Lieu:

Even if you know the world is round, say its flat unless you want to be labeled a 'heretic'.

In other words, "go along to get along"?

Compromise your integrity?

Fail to take a stand for the truth?

Scarred for life

I think the WBTS is absolutely full of people that "go along to get along", and constantly compromise their integrity, and fail to take a stand for what they know deep down in the truth.

I think this is what is taught to the children and some continue it through generations and others refuse to continue the madness of it and leave.

Greatest Lesson You Have Learned from Your WT Experience?

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