How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

by minimus 85 Replies latest jw friends

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  pamkw

  I don't blame every bad thing in my life on being raised jw. But I know if my mom had not been a witness she would have left my step-father. And my life would have been so much better. But because the elders told her that she was a bad wife, and that was why he wanted to molest her daughters, she didn't do anything. She was told God hates a divorce, and she didn't leave. If just one of those elders would have said, save your kids, run for your life! She would have done it. But no, she stayed. Now she brags about being married 34 years. 34 years in a living hell, but she thinks she so great for not getting divorce, and that God favors her somehow.

  I regret the years I lost to the tower, and I regret losing my childhood. But I am doing great now, and I am the person I am today (someone I like very much) because of what I went through. Having said that, I still think there is more bad in than good in the wtbs, I tell everyone they should stay away.

  Pam
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  minimus

  I remember how elders and the Watchtower always spoke against a "Christian wife" leaving her husband, whether he was a JW or not. Take the insults. Take the abuse. Take the cheating. Take the mental and physical abuse. And stop crying about! What's the matter, have you no faith in Jehovah???
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  herk

  --and very little opportunity!
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  herk
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  minimus

  HERK, Can't you get other pictures??? Enough with the kitties. Show us some dogs.
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  herk

  At a table specially set for WT leaders
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  ESTEE

  Minimus,

  Maybe you got it backwards?????

  Like....How screwed up was I WHEN I was a witless???

  Love ya!

  ESTEE
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  minimus

  Estee, Good Point! Maybe some are cured now.
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  Deleted

  I was an adult convert and conclude I was screwed up already. Dubdom emphasized my fears and provided their way out. Since leaving I was diagnosed bi-polar and since I have been taking Tegretol my life came into balance. I particularly feel for the raised-in-its - it's a lousy life for vibrant young people. My advice is to live a double life and leave when it makes sense to do so.
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  ikhandi

  I found out when I left that I really did know how to fit in with society as a whole, mainly because I did not have much life experience living in the real world. Growing up a jehovahs witness I lead I really sheltered life. As you all know we are told to only associate with other jws. "Worldy Associates" are off limits. My whole life was consumed with meetings, field service, and studying. I had no real life and missed out on many firsts. Like this morning I was reflecting on all the things I missed out on. Ever year around this time I think about how I missed out on my senior prom even though I really wanted to go. Never played school sports even though I was a very athletic individual and had skills when it came to playing basketball and track. Never had a real relationship with a person of the opposite sex until I turned 24 and subsequently left the truth. It simply is not normal to live a life of a jw. Thankfully I had enough sense to know when I was still in the org. I needed to go to college to acquire some marketable skills. If not I would probably be washing windows. I was never srewed up I was simply disillusioned.