Were You Surprised That The "World" Was Not As Bad As The Watchtower Claimed?

by minimus 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  dgp

  Marked.
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  minimus

  The Organization says we are a big "family" except the family is extremely dysfunctional. And if someone screws up somehow, they are punished or treated like crap.
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  miseryloveselders

  Actually, I believe the world is worse than the way the WT presents it. People who have never been associated with JWs will tell you the world is f#$#ed up, and lately I believe its getting worse. Times are uncertain right now, as if we're all going through a transitional phase of sorts.

  I'll admit the WT's generalization of people is flawed. NonJWs have done more for me and in my behalf than anybody ever actively involved with The Truth.
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  Found Sheep

  this is one of the many reasons I left!!! We were always told JW's are good the world is Bad.... After a lifetime of badness from JW's and seeing how nice some Worldly people are it was one of the lights that came on and I said "get me out"!!! they claim to be so loving but I don't even think they understand the word...
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  blondie

  No, I associated with my non-jw relatives and my dad's non-jw friends. I socialized with people at work as well. It always seemed awkward to try and "witness" to people you had barely said hello to. I also worked in professions that brought me in touch with many strata of people and I found them to be generous, loving, and supportive. Couldn't say that about the KH.

  Blondie
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  minimus

  It's funny how so many JWs are MISERABLE! If the "Truth" is all that it's cracked up to be, why are there so many cracked up JWs?
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  undercover

  It's funny how so many JWs are MISERABLE!

  and that's why they're afraid to leave. Imagine....you're fucking miserable but everyone keeps telling you that you'll be even more miserable outside of the miserable existance you're already in...so you just hang in there and deal with the misery you already got, glad that you're not even more fucking miserable like those poor fuckers out in the world...
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  Butterflyleia85

  Hi Minimus! :)

  I think this is hard to say because my fiance told me that he agrees with the elders and what I been taught as far as this world is a crazy world but what he says he feels I lacked was "street smarts" being raised as a Jehovah's Witness. I been called a "late bloomer" or "sheltered" because I was a bet to gulliable.

  That how we are brought up can be damaging in facing the real world. But also like the movie "Village" Jehovah's Witnesses create a problem in itself even when trying to avoid "worldly things or thinking".

  I guess it's how you look at it. Yeah I was suprised that I wouldn't be struck by demons after watching Scream or Friday 13th. Or I wasn't going to be killed by God for injoying family time on holidays. That helping the world or the people in it didn't mean I was abanding God.

  But yeah now you do have to realize there are more skillful people out there then just the average JW who have been molded by the Watchtower or at least exposed to most of their life... and now there are millions of verity of kinds of people you are coming acrossed and will have to reteach yourself what to except and what not to except.
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  Finally-Free

  Actually, I believe the world is worse than the way the WT presents it.

  That may be true, but the WT seems to overstate the problems and ignore the good entirely. They also aren't any better than those they criticize. They're just more proficient at hiding it. They've taken hypocrisy and turned it into an art form.

  W
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  Lozhasleft

  When I was unjustly disflwshpd I was dealing with a divorce from an abusive husband, a fight for custody of a daughter, a battle to keep the home we lived in, to name but a few issues...I'd already noticed that these problems werent the sort that were acceptable enough to get help from elders or approved members of the cong..(who previously were sooo friendly)...within 6 months I developed a small cancer...I went into hospital alone...when I woke from the operation a 'wordly' friend was sitting beside me...I'd only known her a few months..one of my adult sons visited me once to tell me that he hoped that now that I had hit rock bottom I would see the need to fight my way back to the truth....he left me in tears...when I arrived home to an empty house as I thought, another new 'worldly' friend was there who had come to stay and look after me for a few days, off her own back I hasten to add...these same friends helped me as I went through further treatment and needless to say I didnt see any JWs including my adult kids....

  Its been a wonderful surprise to meet and know these and many other people in the world who are caring and loving and unconditional. During my 30 years in the org I'd forgotten such individuals could exist...and then, joy of joys I met my now husband, an atheist, and an adorable, kind, clever man. Although I grieve for my family and friends I've had to leave behind in there, I have never been so happy...

  Hope that answers your question Minimus...

  Loz x