Amazing that some of you want to trivialize this religions (jw) complicity in manufacturing an environment of pure cultic neurosis in all, I SAY ALL ,of it's members.
Just ask any active jw how they feel about missing attendance at any one of the five meeting proscribed. Just ask any 5 to 10 year old how they feel if they don't place the required amount of magazines or hours,while engaging in door to door. Just wish any jw a happy 'pagan' holiday, and see for yourself neurosis blossom in the eye's or the repressed body language required to weasle out of the uncomfortable response jw's know they should make, but just end up saying 'thank you' to nullify the mindwarp.
Tell me how as a 9yr old curious boy, I was hauled before a committee of 3 big hulking overseer's because I was caught peeking through the bathroom window, while a very attractive sister was bathing. Yeah I had a glimpse for the first time in my young manhood of 'real breasts'....these men made me feel like I had committed the unforgiveable sin. In fact that one experience set the stage for the next 20 years of sexual repression and anxiety. What should have been a simple slap on wrist, don't invade another's privacy, turned into a very dark and fearful anxiety about all things sexual.
Think about the millions of young men and women who must deal with thier natural desires relating to masturbation, tell me they are not ruined by this draconian religion's take on the subject.
Tell me that each and every sincere jw, who doesnt underline the watchtower before the Sunday meeting, doesn't try and avoid sitting next to an elder.
Tell me the little teenager who viewed his first pornography on the net, or went to see an R rated movie doesnt suffer incidious pangs of guilt.
Tell me that in almost every facit of life a jw doesn't have to evaluate or way the cults stand on whatever life course he/she might be considering.
If you can answer all of the above with..'well thats just human'...well thats just like another religion..then you have just excused the unexusable. Shame on you.
Danny
