WHY MANY GET STUCK IN!

by ADJUSTMENTS 15 Replies latest jw experiences

  • ADJUSTMENTS
    ADJUSTMENTS

    From my experience as a JW I noticed that myself, and many young ones do not have a choice in the decision of becoming a JW or not. From infancy you are indoctrinated, so by the time you become a teenager and just begining to reason on right and wrong and what you will do with your life it has already been decided. So at this moment in your late teens you come to a cross roads... If you decide not to be a JW you will be mentally and emotionally beaten, threatened and oustracized bordering on abuse. So your options are null and void. You have no money to leave your home because your parents were taught not to get a good education and job and just rely on jehovah, so you followed the same direction and can barelinsurances phone bill let alone an apartment. Everyone you can turn to for assistance are all JWs and are in the same boat and if learned of your position wouldn't help you and oustracize you also. You have no outside family or friends to turn to because you couldn't associate with them. You have been taught to be so afraid of the big evil world that running away and living on the street is not an option. You havent learned TTATT so you think weird and freaky JWs are right even though you just don't want to be a weird and freaky JW!!! So your STUCK between a ROCK and a HARD place. Just suck it up and become a JW or live a life of hell on the outside (as taught by WBATS) with no assistance from freinds or family. If you don't get baptized by 20 and barely go in service or make meetings you are ostracized by other JWs (pretty much disfellowshipped) and miss out on outings and activities with other JWs! You become lonely and so you decide to get baptized and suck it up and try to rationalize being a JW and accepting it as life, I know I did, so when I finally learned TTATT it was shocking and life changing to say the least...

    So pretty much in a nutshell being born in as a JW your option of not becoming a JW is almost not possible...

  • Londo111
    Londo111

    That is why I think Steven Hassan has yet to develop something that helps born-in JWs. Most of his techniques seem to focus on when the bulk of a person's support network, that is family, is outside the cult.

  • Phizzy
    Phizzy

    That about sums it up !

    Life as a person like you and me, as one born in to a High Control, Mind Control Cult is a real STINKER !

    To leave takes great courage.

    The younger you are when you do it, the better. You have more time to rectify the evil that has been done to you.

    So, may no one delay getting out. The Prison of your soul that is the WT/JW Scam posing as a religion needs to be left behind you as soon as possible.

    Once you are truly free the extent of the lies you were told becomes evident. The vast majority of people who are not JWFreaks are great people. You can find friends who love you for who you are, not what status you have in some cult. You can find fulfillment in so many activities.

    The World is your oyster, I do hope you like oysters !

  • BU2B
    BU2B

    I concur.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    The more relatives you have in, the tougher it is. Add to that the GB has really ratcheted up the pressure to get dunked earlier in life. They aren't stupid, they know that there is a better chance that you will be stuck in if you have the big stick of DFing hanging over your head.

    Add to that no sex, and they hope you do one of two things when you turn 18...marry in the "lord" or become a sexually frustrated pioneer for the next decade. Nice choices to give an 18 year old. They suck.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

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    ......................................Jehovahs Witnesses are Institutionalized..

    .................The Only safe place for a JW is the WBT$ Rubber Room/Kingdom Hall..

    ..................................Where the WBT$ Can Monitor Their Every Move....

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    ......................You`ve Missed Meetings and your Field Service Hours are Down..

    ..............................................Have You Been Fornicating?!..

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  • clarity
    clarity

    Adjustments ... when a religious order applies for status as

    a charity...thereby giving them a tax free status, more

    documentation should be required.

    A document showing the results of practicing the religion,

    and proof of the value to civilization... these must be written

    by those who have been born to it & then escaped!

    >

    What you write is classic really, a birds eye view. Bravo!

    *

    I'd like to see this in print, on radio, TV, Talk Show &

    facebooked!

    If you have any idea of doing that in some way...

    it would be brilliant!

    clarity

  • Ding
    Ding

    Despite all the claims that JWs are being persecuted by the world, Christendom, etc., it is the GB and its policies that make it virtually impossible for a JW to develop meaningful friendships or relationships outside the organization.

  • cofty
    cofty

    Adjustments - good points.

  • zound
    zound

    You just described my childhood, Adjustments. Good point about knowing something is not right but not yet knowing ttatt so still thinking the JW's message is correct.

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