Other than feeling "love bombed" when you first started associating with the "brotherhood", did you experience the "love" in your years within the Organization?
If you felt truly loved, was it in reality, a "conditional love"?
Did You Feel The Love As A Jehovah's Witness?
by minimus 28 Replies latest jw friends
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BluesBrother
No......, I guess that is the answer that the board expects, but in reality we always believed that the real Christian love was lacking in our congregation...whichever congregation we were in. The love, we were sure was elsewhere in the Organisation and it must be just our congo that was an exception,
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shamus100
No.
I attended a lot of congregations Minimus, and for the most part they were very cold, people were very uncaring, and when someone just stopped attending nobody gave a damn. This was actually a good thing for me, because I dropped off the face of the earth before they could come looking for me!
There were some very caring people in the congregation but it was conditional - conditional on your meeting attendance. When you become a lost sheep in Jehovahs borganization you are treated as shit.
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purplesofa
I felt loved and yes it was conditional and I understand that contract, do I like it, of course not, but I respect it.
I have some very dear friends that I miss and possibly someday, our love and friendship will become active once again.
purps
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Finally-Free
I never felt love as a JW, but I can't honestly say I've experienced it outside of the JWs either.
Except from the guy in my avatar. Everyone else was just interested in what they could get from me.
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Psychotic Parrot
I found the j-dubs i knew to be pretty much the same as worldly people, just less interesting.
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bluecanary
I came from a family that was ready to show love to others. We often had people live with us who needed a place to stay, both witnesses and worldly relatives. We even gave one family a car. When the situation was reversed and my family needed help we got nadda. I know there are individual witnesses like us who would do anything to help their fellows. They are by far the exception, when they were supposed to be the rule. Shortly before I left, I learned that there are worldly people like that, too. We didn't have the monopoly on love that the society says we did.
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insearchoftruth
We didn't have the monopoly on love that the society says we did.
I think this is a very important point that those who are born in do not realize.
The world is generally a good place and a vast majority of people want to help others....