Do You Feel Foolish For Ever Having Been A Jehovah's Witness? (page 3)

minimus

JWoods, I wouldn't starve myself for anybody!

JWoods

Actually, she wasn't half bad looking. Sort of a Eurasian style - not unlike actress of that day Merle Oberon.

BTW, my old ex-JW GF Cindy was upbraiding me for walking around with ballpoint pens in my pocket - so I showed her an old photo of Godel and Einstein in Scientific American: both of them had ballpoint pens in their pockets...

crapola

I don't feel foolish,,, just cheated out of having a normal life.. And now that I'm out I don't know what to do with myself.

I'm lonely, bored, but can't even imagine going back. That is not an option. Hope I'm normal!

IWillBeDubbedNoMore

I feel very foolish. I made some poor life decisions that were only made because of my belief in a lie and now I have to live with them. Too bad we didn't have the internet 30 years ago, my life story would be a lot different.

prophecor

Foolish?, No. There are a lot worse ways to have your life put on hold or destroyed. Cheated? Yes!!! I've had to learn how to properly and effectively conduct myself in the world at the late great age of 50.

parakeet

Anyone born in or dragged in as a child has no cause to feel foolish.

I was dragged in as a child and 14 years later got away as fast as I could run.

I don't bring it up in conversation, not because I'll be thought of as a fool, but as a victim. Don't need that.

villabolo

I was 14. I got myself in. I started having doubts at 16. I got myself disfellowshipped at 21. Slight embarrasment but I don't feel foolish. Look at where most teenagers end up.

villabolo

PSacramento

Like Iwillbedubbednomore, mentioned on hsi thread, in THIS day and age of information, where one cna get almost any info with a click, it is much harder to be "fooled" and much harder for oganizations to say they are "the truth", without being called out on it.

No so much even 10 years ago, much less 20 or more.

One can argue, however, that at this point, there isn't much of an excuse for people who currently follow or are thinking of following the WT.

Lack of info or ignorance of the history is no longer a valid excuse.

All facts procalimed by the WT can be researched online, in the libraries and so forth.

villabolo

JWoods: "Some pretty smart people can get deluded into some very dumb things...we are not alone in this."

Another example of intelligent fools was Sir Conan Doyle author of the Sherlock Holms series and a theosiphist. He believed in fairies, literal fairies and other spooks that were part of theosophist spiritualism.

WTWizard

When I fell for the scam, I had no ready access to reference material to cross-reference anything. All I had was the littera-trash itself, and of course it is not going to claim the religion to be a scam. Not like now, when all it takes is typing the subject into a search engine and a few mouse clicks to get access to the information.

And, if I ever get dragged back, it will not be voluntarily--nothing foolish about getting forcibly dragged into something because they feel you are qualified to help them plunge the whole world into the Second Dark Ages.

Do You Feel Foolish For Ever Having Been A Jehovah's Witness?

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