..having been raised in your nutty cult I now have confusion over my world view!
As I'm a Brit we don't go in for therapy. I tend to see it as some bloke trying to ask about Freudian sex associations from my childhood. That's harsh I know. Just kidding.
Anyway. I sometimes wonder if my world view is either tainted by WBT$ 'mind cleansing' or I'm reacting very opposite to it and in the process not being myself.
EG. A son of mine wants to join the army. I no longer see the armed forces as serving satan and praise them for their selfless defence of the realm. On the other hand I see their leaders as war mongering blighters and the thought of him joining the army as horrendous. Is that dissonance or what!?! Thank you watchtower.....
EG. Another son wants to be a security guard/bouncer. Part of me says it's a possibly dangerous but well paid job. Another part of me screams 'world' (TM). Thank you watchtower......
EG. I want to go into Christian preaching (Baptist or C of E), but I also harbour atheistic views based on my quandry over 'evidence' that any of my prayers were/are ever answered. Dissonance or what!?! Thank you watchtower........
You see my friends, now I'm well out of the WBT$, I'm not sure if I'm fully the authentic me after being raised in the dangerous cult. 50 years on, recently out. Sometimes I face the world with a stiff upper lip and other times I cower in fear of it. Thank you watchtower.....
Is this par for the course? Will I ever find the balance? *SIGH* Who knows!
So. Thank you watchtower...NOT!!! Let this be a warning to any lurkers who are thinking of joining the JWs. It aint worth it, it makes you unbalanced!
PS. My new years resolution was to stop swearing! Oh BUGGER!!