Its called indoctrination- and you can get it twice a week at your local KH. But yes, life is the best teacher, and things that happen every day show that the Watchtower world view is wrong- but with the WTS goggles on everything is given a different interpretation. But my advice is... even if you don't know where to go, it is best to stop attending meetings and open your eyes- and just let life be your guide.
Reality is plain to see: if you just open your eyes
by kneehighmiah 11 Replies latest jw friends
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Phizzy
I really am ashamed at myself for taking so long to leave. Yes, I was born-in, so had the indoctrination and mind control constantly. All my friends were in, all my family too.
But, I was never a fully 100% believer. I constantly saw the fallacies in a lot of what was taught, and as I was a reader of Bible Commentaries, I came to realise that the WT had only scant scolarship, but I did read those commentaries with WT Specs on, for example I ignored one that I read on Daniel that gave a very good explanation as to why it applied to Antiochus 1V, I simply thought that was a non-believer's view.
Right up until I woke up, I still beleived that because the WT carried god's name as "Jehovah's Witnesses" then He must have it has his Organization, despite its glaring faults.
Of course once I began to examine everything with a mind that would accept facts as facts, the whole JW Edifice fell apart like a house of cards.
So, what is the answer as to why it took us so long to open our eyes ? I think that the mind-control not to consider opposing views is both mighty and powerful, it is that aspect of W.T control that we particularly must neutralize if we are to free more JW's.