When You Were In, Did You Think Everyone Was Out To Get You Because You Were. A Witness?

by minimus 22 Replies latest jw friends

  • laverite
    laverite

    I was terribly paranoid, and very scared as a child. I was expecting the Great Tribulation at any instant. I was constantly worried about persecution. I was paranoid about demons and dreamt of demon attacks on a regular basis. I was terrorized by the meetings -- the talks on demons, persecution and armaggedon.

    I had the horrible misfortune of being in an earthquake when I was home alone as a youngster -- my first earthquake. I was on the sofa taking a nap and when it started to move, I jumped up, terrified and jumped right out the living room window (the door was right next to the window; why I didn't walk out the door, who knows). Neighbors found me running up and down the street utterly hysterical screaming about demons and shouting JEHOVAH. How damn humiliating is that?!!

    I grew up in fear imposed by Watchtower Corp and the imagery in its publications. That's child abuse and plain and simple.

  • Bob_NC
    Bob_NC

    Oh heck yeah! We thought that the world hated us. That they just want to persecute us and throw us into prison. That they were scheming up ways to do away with Jehovah's Witnesses and the only true religion.

    Guess what I found out upon leaving? Ain't nobody even thinking about our sorry behinds! HAHAHAHA. Ain't nobody hating or scheming up anything on us. Man oh man, did I ever fall for that "they hate you" business.

  • ShirleyW
    ShirleyW

    When witnesses thought everyone was out to get them, I think they viewed that as their persecution, which the Bible says would happen to those who preach the word or whatever, can't remember exactly but that's what my mother thought.

  • factfinder
    factfinder

    No.

    But I was worried I might have to go to jail during the GT.

  • smiddy
    smiddy

    NO , no way, are /were you paranoid ?

    smiddy

  • minimus
    minimus

    no wonder there are so many effed up jws

  • straightshooter
    straightshooter

    Most of the time I did not feel ones were out to get me. But once in a while I thought my boss was against me because of being a jw. But in actually I found out years later that the ones out against me were really fellow jws and elders at that.

  • minimus
    minimus

    Straight, that's a rude awakening call, isn't it?

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    I never thought "The World" was out to get me personally just for being a JW as a kid (I never thought I was important enough, to be honest), but I was wholeheartedly convinced that the world was a shitty, f**ked-up place.

    I have since revised that viewpoint.

  • simon17
    simon17

    To the contrary, I was always surprised that the "wicked world" didn't really care much one way or the other. They just thought it was peculiar.

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