Ya know whatta I mean? When you sneeze and someone says "God bless you" do you hear any ‘old tapes’ in your head about how that’s ‘pagan’? At Christmas time do you feel any guilt about enjoying the songs? Can you hum them without feeling guilty? Can you sing God Bless America at a sporting event without thinking somehow you’re doing something evil or wrong? If your church has Easter Bunny hunt, dose that offend you? Can you go to church without feeling guilty about it? Do you think somewhere down deep in your core, that maybe the Society is right after all, and God has really turned His back on you? Do you still hold onto any JW "theology’s"? Do you have a hard time with the Trinity concept? With Hell? With Heaven? If you or a loved one needed a blood transfusion would you hesitate? If you did receive a blood transfusion do you think you might worry (to any degree) that by doing so you would have completely separated yourself from God? If a JW shuns you, do you feel on some level they may somehow justified by doing so? Do you feel strange when accepting the emblems? Do you have any impending doom feelings concerning Armageddon and that you will be destroyed?
I don’t mean to make an annoying list here. I’m curious about the long-term effects of the mind control that a cult like the Watchtower Society can have on people. I know that, once being a JW myself, I personally had to go/grow through some of aforementioned topics. Sometimes I still ‘hear the tapes’, but mostly it just kinda makes me giggle now when I do.
When my daughter was born in 1995, she needed two blood transfusions to survive. When I was told she needed them, I immediately ‘heard the tapes’ roll in my head, but that only lasted for about a split second. Obviously I did what any responsible parent should do. Today she is a healthy happy little seven-year-old!
Steve . . .