Do You Feel Foolish For Ever Having Been A Jehovah's Witness? (page 4)

purplesofa

Naive, trusting, gulliable comes to mind for me, since I was not born-in.

I feel foolish for not trusting my gut feelings about God and religion when I was about 19, thinking there was something wrong with me and discounting myself. It could have spared me allot of turmoil in my life.

purps

chickpea

had a very embarrassing day yesterday
catching up to two old friends and admitting
my foolishness for ever having been in that cult...
told them i had had the epiphany that clued me
in to what they had known all along... FML
http://www.fmylife.com/

to date, in regard to my
personal decision making,
it is THE most regrettable
action i have ever had to
be accountable for....

looking at the harm it
caused to my children
ensures my continued
regret to my dying breath....

it was in ignorance, my lambs!
never with malice, never with malice

moshe

Well, yes I do. All those hours wasted in the 70's on JW busy-work and wasted weekends on KH building projects. Wasted opportunities for job advancements because I as a difficult self-righteous person to work around. I almost threw away one of my pensions by signing up to go to Bethel in the 70's as a construction worker. Thankfully, I got cold feet and never sent in the application. Without that extra pension , retirement would have been a lot harder for me.

Scarred for life

chickpea:

Thank you for what you have said. I wish my mother could have said that to me. My father too but he was taken very suddenly in death and was in the middle of his own grief at being fooled for 25 years by this cult.

minimus

Ren, then shame on you.

carla

I feel foolish when people find out my jw is a jw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and so do the kids! it is a great source of embarrassment. The worse part is if when they think we may be one too! For instance in one public situation I could see some were trying to figure out if I was one too, good grief, I never wished more people Merry Christmas in my life! always wear a cross in public situations too when he's around. House has a nice big flag on it and planters have flags in them too! cross at the front door, holiday decorations, anything to let people know this is not some heathen wacko cult home!

While it is true that very intelligent people can fall victim to cults most people are not aware of that. When people find out he became a jw their opinion of his intelligence drops immediately. Then if I actually have a discussion with them about jw's -blood, pedophilia policies, extreme shunning, etc.... they shocked and appalled and ALWAYS ask 'so they think they are a Christian religion?'

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

reniaa