How Many JWs Are Confident They Are Worthy? (page 2)

Ding

Sometimes it amazes me how many hours JWs spend going door to door telling people about the "good news of Jehovah's kingdom" when deep down they are worried that they might not make it themselves.

Dagney

Good question. I never was worried about destruction or judgement. But my VERY faithful mother, pillar and all, would say from time to time..."I hope I make it." Seriously? Very Catholic.

It is the message they send loud and clear...you are undeserving, undesirable and unworthy.

Ding: Sometimes it amazes me how many hours JWs spend going door to door telling people about the "good news of Jehovah's kingdom" when deep down they are worried that they might not make it themselves.

Ding I think that IS the REASON many of them go out; to give themselves a little better chance of making it. They go on and on about not being bloodguilty, so they want to recruit others so they can join them in their guilt fest. Wouldnt want they end to come and you havent DONE ENOUGH! I think this is their biggest fear.

BU2B

BTW when I was mentally in throughout my childhood, I NEVER felt good enough to make it. Always something I was struggling with that I never felt good enough. Only now do I realize most JWs have the same feelings, and that it is by design.. part of the mind control process.

scary21

BU2B, I felt the same way growing up. I NEVER thought I was good enough to make it. I thought I would die in 1975 . I would be 21 years old and dead.

That is why I got pregnant and married at 16. I wanted to get as much living done as I could before the big A. I believe very very few JW's feel secure.

Why did I have to live in guilt and fear growing up ? Why did I have to be so scared to turn 21 ? Because I was raised in a cult.

That is why I am Scary 21.....................

Sherry

cantleave

I never felt worthy and I was a good boy!

WTWizard

I would guess that being "worthy" requires a minimum of 200 hours a month of field circus--not average, minimum. And, if you got only 199, you had better have a damn good excuse why you couldn't do more despite hardships. After all, are you going to be defeated because of mere pain? Beyond that, you had to be totally flawless or feel intense shame and guilt because of them. Plus, do all you could--doing everything you could to get more assignments (regardless of ability to handle them). But, if you don't do them all perfectly, you are dead.

Heartofaboy

I grew up knowing for sure I was unworthy & going to die at Armageddon.

It played havoc with my mental health as a teenager.

My parents thought they had given us kids a marvellous hope for the future by being JW's.

They were mortified when I told them a year or so ago that it wasn't hope we had but a morbid fear of being killed by god because of not wanting to do all the studying & meetings & FS the borg said we had to do to have god's favour.

How Many JWs Are Confident They Are Worthy?

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