by MissSC 18 Replies latest jw experiences
Hey MissSC,
Are you from South Carolina? If so, *howdy* - so am I. If not, glad to meet you.
Congratulations on continuing with your education - sounds like you know what you want, and how to accomplish it.
As for our forum, a nice place - but open to all kinds of people & subjects. If you find yourself in a thread not of your liking, just click to another one.....literally pages of threads to choose to get interested in.
Welcome.
waiting
Jesus Waiting,
4300 odd posts? We gotta get a new name fer ya! Maybe a contest for the "verbosity" award!
(Missed ya sweetee)
carmel candy man
Welcome,
Thank you for sharing your story. I look forward to hearing more from you in the future. There were parts of your story that sounded hauntingly familiar ... have you ever lived in KY??
BobsGirl
"May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition." - Mahatma Gandhi
Waiting, yes, I am from SC.
Thanks everyone for the encouragement.
Always, MissSC
Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your permission.
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
Hi MissSC,
I missed this when it first appeared but I came back to read it. I'm sorry you've had such a rough trot, but it's great that you are moving on with your life! I was brought up as a JW too, as were many on this board.
Welcome!
Welcome
:) hang in there
Welcome MissSC,
Many of us here have bruises from life in the Watchtower society. I too, found solace and strength from studying in college. I am currently pursuing my masters too. School is what put the most damaging cracks in my belief system, especially philosophy and the earth sciences.
Another person's sad upbringing.
Looking back at 45 years of being raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses in the farmlands of North Carolina, I have come to believe that there are some aspects of their religious doctrine that are more destructive to an individuals emotional development and mental well-being than others. For example:
It is continuously impressed on Jehovah's Witnesses, particularly during their impressionable youth and teens, that the world around them is disgusting and doomed. They are expected to shun as worthless anything that might establish some vestige of a foundation in current society. Things like advanced education, career development, competitive sports, youthful romance, or even retirement savings and home ownership, are generally framed as dangerous and misguided, frivolous, and wasteful squandering of time and resources that would be be better directed toward furthering the expansion of the organizations agenda.
This misanthropic world view permeates the actions of Jehovah's Witnesses, serving the purpose of alienating them from the people and life opportunities around them. It promotes and sustains disfunction mentally, emotionally, financially, and even physically.
Plainly stated, their belief is that everything around them is so hopelessly corrupt and diseased, that there is no reason to try to pursue enjoyment and fulfillment in their current life. The only hope for happiness, then, exists in a future utopic snow globe world that even they are hard pressed to explain in realistic terms. This concept literally sucks the passion and joy out of them, replacing it with a desperation for the acceptance and approval of others who are simply running on the same sad treadmill.”
