Which one of them told on me?
Do Your Neighbors Think You're Nuts?
by prophecor 31 Replies latest jw friends
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prophecor
Well, If you have to ask.....
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Carmel
normal neighborhood, normal neighbors, normal relations..
Out for forty five years makes a big difference..
carmel
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fairchild
i don't think so...but all my neighbors are crackheads and hookers. (i'm really poor)
Same here. My neighbors are drug dealers and I stay as far away from them as possible. I even try to avoid the 'hi & bye'.
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codeblue
Our current neighbors found out we "were jws"....that didn't matter to them because they like us....we have tried to be good neighbors. I have been able to share what our life "use to be like"...They said: "it's as if you lived in a different world"...(yes it was!)
Before we moved here, when we were active JW's...our neighbors when they found out we were JWs' were puzzled because as they put it:
"you guys didn't look or act like the typical JW's.....you looked and acted NORMAL". (I always tried to look "normal", because I didn't like the way most JW's acted or looked.......too weird for me)
CodeBlue
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The Leological One
I would have to say that all people are my neighbors and that all of them have at one time thought me especially crazy. Growing up as a JW did not help my social skills at all. I was too busy defending myself and JWs and making excuses as to why even the JWs were not really friendly toward me.
Anyway, in the last few years, I have been suffering from a complete and utter nervous breakdown for all of the social neglect and lack of friends who thought I was worthy of association. But, in reality, I cannot blame all of my problems on JW doctrine. I must say that those who have been abused have their own peculiar thoughts and are rarely fully understood. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a real pain. I do have to say that I was very big on telling everybody else that they were going to die if they didn't change, whilst I went off my rocker trying to keep from being sexually abused again by those who were not related to me. not that I wanted to be related to them either. I believe that my strange manerisms due to being molested accompanied with the beliefs of JWs and my own personal feeling of low self esteem just combined to make me look and sound like the craziest person on earth.
Have any of the rest of you had a complete nervous breakdown from being neglected socially, at home and in public? I really felt super-horrible about the strange things that came out of my mouth because I felt like I was basically wicked, that God had predestined me for being a wicked person so that I would have all that most wicked horrible things happen to me. Have you ever felt that if you even complained a little about being molested by someone who referred to himself as a brother that you were being disloyal to God and his "Spirit Anointed Priests"?
I felt that i ws proof of something wicked that had happened in God's midst and that if I did not keep my mouth shut, I would be called an apostate even when I needed someone to listen to my heart and comfort me. Anyone that has gone through that situation has the right to be angry, even at God, until it is explained that God does not blame them for what a wicked adult does. Is there anyone out there that can empathize with my inability to behave normally around most people, so that all people perceive me as crazy?
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tsunami_rid3r
never associated much with the neighbors.
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Lehaa
yep i socialize with my neighbours and they're certain I'm nuts....... but then so are my friends and family.
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prophecor
Living in the big city, it can be difficult to drop my defenses, everyone in the 'hood iz suspicious of each other, anyway. If I do try to present myself as a geek bearing gifts, it can be looked upon not too kindly, or you're viewed as weak, so it's a fine line I have to draw when chosing to socialize with my neighbors. Many have the idea that kindness is only being delivered when you want something from them other than friendship in return.
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franklin J
when I was a kid and my entire family were JWs; we were known as "the communists" on the block because we did not salute the flag and did not participate in Halloween.
There was never more than a polite "hello" to the neighbors; never any socialization beyond that.
Now, as a "grown up" with my own family and home ( and definitely NOT a JW by choice) ; my wife and I have a very social arrangement with all of our neighbors. In fact we have great neighbors.
How unfortunate for all fundamental beliefs; Jehovahs Witnesses and others like them, who limit themselves and shut out the world around them.