I took my 5 yr old daughter to see the Disney movie "The Croods" yesterday. For me it was like art imitating life.
The movie is about a family of Cave people who are SO afraid of leaving their cave, for fear of what might be out in the world, all of the big bad things that will hurt them - that they stay holed up in the dark for days and weeks on end, only coming out into the light when they absolutely HAVE to for food.
When they finally are forced to venture out of the cave and into the light, they are amazed to figure out that they had not been LIVING at all, but merely existing.
Fear rules all from what I have seen from the Watchtower Society. Living under such an immense shadow of fear is life crippling in so many ways.