Was Your Growth Stunted Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness? (page 3)

minimus

I had a friend that was the "star" football player of the high school team. He was considered the very best player ever to play in the city. EVERY college wanted him. He could've gone anywhere! He was highly intelligent, too (not just a gifted athlete). Instead, to the chagrin of every "worldly" (normal) person, he opted to regular pioneer and work at a Store 24! To this day, he struggles. Plus he is still reminded that the "end" never did come in '75, either.

integ

yes

gumby

Well, I'm 49 years old and my doctor just told me that had I'd not been raised a Jehovah's Witness, I'd probably be about 6ft.1 insted of 4ft. 11. My mom is taller than me because she wasn't raised a dub from birth. I have 4 sister all raised dubs and none of them are taller than 3 ft. I have a cousin who is only 3ft.9 and a neice that was also raised a dub and she is only 2ft. 10. Most of my family all work at carnivals because our growth was stunted from being raised a Jehovahs Witness. I give you all my love for letting me tell my story to you and for all of you who listen. For all of you who are thinking of being a Jehovahs Witness.....I beg you to re-think your thinking. You will grow up to be a short little shit like me and my whole family who were raised in this awful religion that has stunted our growth. Thank you all.

Gumbastard

DebraDoll

But Gumby, What then accounts for the greenish hue to your skin?

Sassy

Who knows what we would have become or how different we would have been in , had we not been grown up a JW. We couldn't play in sports or in after school activities. Couldn't go to do things with non JW kids. Couldn't go to college. I didn't even take business classes in high school because I was going to be a good little JW submissive stay at home raise the babies housewife. Didn't get to have traning for a job until I was 30. By then it was only the technical route because even then Armegeddon was coming and who had time to go to college?

Stunted? is an understatement.

gumby

Sns...well said.

I never had any goals or ideas for this world we are in. I was always taught armageddon was near and so I never dreamed, or planned, or considered life past.......a few more years. One thing we did get from being dubs.......we got an education that is pricless. We were taught upon exiting the dubs......to not take things at face value. We were taught the snares of religion. We learned it's impossible to live a perfect life, which helps us to give our fellowman a break.I suppose being raised a dub also had a good side for some........but I wouldn't recommend it

Gumby

got my forty homey?

Thats very true Gumby. I was discouraged from going to college and could have been who knows what today instead of a lousy civil servant. What makes it more agravating is that later on after leaving the organization college was ok'd. So what about the millions who didn't go to college when it was frowned upon. I didn't really excel in school because the end was near and I was headed to Bethel out of high school, so I was just passed my classes. Then there were the cuties who use to flirt with me in High school who I couldn't date because they were not witnesses and I wasn't ready for marriage.

All of these things have made me a very bitter hard person, like the guy from "Bad Santa". I have no friends, a sucky job, drinking and drug problems, a horrible relationship with my parents, a terrible attendance problem at work, and the list goes on and on.

The only time I really felt good was when I went to hypnotic sessions and I really felt good about myself but then I moved out of the city and stopped going.

gumby

40,

I have no friends,

Your among many friends here who also have their own hang-ups. Were in this together

Gumby

minimus

40----Why not check out therapy? You're young and you've got your life ahead of you! There's a lot to be bitter for, for sure but there's a whole new life available to all of us.

simplesally

I didn't grow up as one of JW's so my emotional growth was not stunted. Certainly, my life is changed forever because of my choice to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I would not have the ex-husbands I have (2 of them) and possibly would have married the great guy I was dating but broke up with so I could advance further in my study of the Bible. But then, I would not have my daughter that I adore so much --- she is the wonderful thing I take away with me from JW's (and hopefully, they never get her back!!!)

I severed many friendships in order to pursue "truth" and had to get myself new friends in the "truth" ........ of course, now that I am a df'd person, if I wanted friends, I pretty much had to make new ones.

Was Your Growth Stunted Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness?

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