I was part of a huge top-secret experiment

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  Quotes

  Just had a flashback I thought I would share.

  I distinctly remember, when I was only about 8 or 10 years old, suddenly having what one might call an epiphany.

  I thought that my entire life and existence was part of some huge social science experiment (of course I didn't use this language when I was 10 years old, but am simply trying to use the correct words to describe my childish feelings).

  I felt that my parents weren't really my parents, but were part of the stimulii to provoke a reaction from me; a reaction which was intensely studied by unseen scientists who were watching me, 24/7. I speculated about whether or not my school friends were "in on it" of if that was "real world" and only my home life was part of the study.

  Here's the kicker. I thought that the whole JW religion was the centerpiece of the experiment. I mean, come on, of all my friends at school, and of all the people in the world, I was lucky enough to be born into "the true religion?" Just seemed a little unlikely. No one else (of my school peer group) belived this. Why? If it was such "Good News", why weren't they falling over themselves to get a piece of the action?

  Maybe this memory is why the movie TRUMAN SHOW resonanted so strongly with me. I felt like I was TRUMAN in my own show.

  Of course, looking back, I realize I was correct (at least partially). No, I wasn't part of an experiment, but at least the JW religion did turn out to be the thin facade I feared it might have been, so many years ago.

  Anyone else feel like this?

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  SYN

  Sometimes I do feel that something is watching me. It's just this gut feeling that I get every now and then, and it's terrifying. I wasn't born with second sight or anything fancy like that, but sometimes I do *sense* things before they happen, and I can read people's emotions like books, so maybe I have a bit of the 6th sense?

  It's a horrid feeling, tho, and I fully agree with you, Quotes. Idea: What if the whole WTBTS thing was just something a TV producer engineered to keep you from doing naughty things so his show featuring you could become family viewing? Think about it...one of the main aspects of being a Dub involves NOT being naughty in any non-PG way.

  Can't come to work today. Voices in my head told me to stay home & clean the guns.

  
  "...the greater will be the beneficial effect, because you get more of the ultra-violet rays, which are healing" - The Golden Age
  [SYN], UADA - Unseen Apostate Directorate of Africa.
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  logical

  me too except i wasnt born a jw
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  logical

  theres a probably explanation for the being wached thing.

  Simple - we ARE being watched.

  CCTV cameras are the obvious, yet there are likely mroe hidden secret cams we dont know about.

  Then theres satellite surveilance.

  Then theres tracking devices hidden in mobile phones.

  Then theres eavesdroppers.

  They spy on your home through cable.

  The list goes on, no such thing as privacy anymore.
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  Beans

  Quotes:
  
  We were test tube JW`s and the beaker fell on our heads off the top shelf and had a cascading effect on our exit! I always wondered why everyone was slamin the door if this great and easy news was so good? I guess 99.9% of the population that aren`t Jehovah`s Witnesses must know something!!!

  Beans
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  hybridous

  Quotes,

  Damn, you're creeping me out! I entertained the same line of thinking as a kid, but I recall it happening to me as an early teenager.

  Thankfully, those doubts kept me from getting dunked as a dub, while my friends at the hall were doing the deed. The pressure was quite intense during those years, I don't know how I held out.
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  KissAFish

  This "sixth sense"feeling... not unusual considering how much you in the BORG had to watch your back and preempt people's thoughts...But it does come in handy later on I found..
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  onelove

  that's so funny that the truman show spoke to you, me too! and then I felt for the longest time that there were coolhunters (people that work like undercover detectives to track the latest trends and sell them to large corporations) on my tail, because everytime I thought of something cool, the idea or invention would be on tv the next week or so. But then like someone said, I realized it was god watching me and giving me the strange coincidences in life.
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  fragrant cane

  Oh wow man, the Truman show! I remember being really scared of demons when I was little, having heard all the stories of demons attacking. I wondered if I could shout "Jehovah" if they covered up my mouth...

  I used to get these dreams when I was little. I'd be at a meeting, and everyone would be shouting this drone hum that would overpower me and make me die and wake up. Horrible. And another that I was in school and really scared and lost and if I tried to scream I couldn't breathe and couldn't run because it was like swimming through treacle.
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  forgetmenot

  Culture is actually somethinge all exhibit. When you said this: [/QUOTE]but were part of the stimulii to provoke a reaction from me; a reaction which was intensely studied by unseen scientists who were watching me[/QUOTE], It made me think of the intercultural communications class I took. In fact we are all programmed (according to our culture) how to react to certian stimulii. You're remark about your family is correct. The family is the primary (and first) institution to instill culture into you. Many western people are unaware that they have "culture" but we do. And for the scientists, yes, there are scientists who study the way people act and react in society (sociologist, psycologists, communication majors, etc).