Do any of us want to believe we have no sense of humor?
Or, would we want to believe we were boring and our opinions were silly mush?
Why would we seek to believe nothing we do matters and that we are just taking up space and using up air?
Would not any of us prefer to think of ourselves as having value, worth, merit and a lot to offer?
The answer to any of those questions would depend on our sense of VALUE.
For instance, people who think highly of their talent, personality and self-worth tend to be ambitious in creating opportunity
to exchange talent, ability and hard work for a career, wealth and perhaps a reputation of importance.
Those with less obvious talent might spend time volunteering in some capacity teaching, caring for sick, taking meals to shut-ins or
helping those less fortunate.
A healthy self-belief in one's ability TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE in the lives of others improves life and gives satisfaction to all.
Why would anybody choose to believe they had little or no personal worth or value except as a drone, a slave or a mere obedient automaton?
Would this not be unhealthy and self-defeating with overtones of dysfunction and depression?
Welcome to belief in the theology of Jehovah's Witnesses!
A JW is a "grunt."
Their value consists of statistics. How many hours going door to door? How many magazines placed and bible studies conducted? How many meetings attended?
They have one foot in Armageddon destruction and the other on a banana peel!
"What have you done for me lately?" Is the question the Governing Body seems to ask every day.
The JW member is not even valued as a thinking person with personal needs and a life of their own that matters!
How do we know?
No provisions are made for that in this religion!
Education above the legal requirement is practically forbidden. A career or course of self-improvement is considered selfish and unnecessary; it indicates willfulness and rebellion, of all things!
Care or concern for others outside the religion is preposterous! Volunteering for a women's shelter or Meals on Wheels is strictly out of the question.
Improving the community by participation in PTA or Community politics is verboten.
Voting in an election as a civil duty and responsibility will get you ostracized.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS BELIEF?
Who would willingly and knowingly CHOOSE such a view of "self" as something worthy of belief?
ONLY A DYSFUNCTIONAL and UNHAPPY person would.
There is no sense of personal worth for this individual when it is not connected to a treadmill of demands, quotas and obedience.
Without being told what to do, how to do it and how far to think and when to stop thinking, the dysfunctional JW is considered to be only worth killing at Armageddon.
HAPPINESS is beyond their reach.
If you don't believe this, try looking at their faces as they sit in the Kingdom Hall or when they pay their bills out of low-paying jobs or when they discipline their kids for wanting to be happy like other kids. Observe their lack of joy when Christmas comes or a neighbor invites them to a birthday party.
CHOOSING to be JW is to choose JOYLESS existence.
HAPPINESS is out of the question.