Spiritual Paradise

Honesty

How many of you really enjoyed any of the JW's Spiritual Paradise found in Joe Hoba's visble organisation?

It's a place of darkness and intimidation a venomous force always operates here and creates depression and pessimism, many JWs are on anti depressants. Their spiritual life is based on the very negative sentiment of fear and is therefore artificial and lacks real depth, there is no real love amd compassion.

People come, see, and leave in droves.

LouBelle

I honestly never saw myself in a spiritual paradise / or sitting at the feast of Jah. Because it wasn't like that - we were being fed the same thing over and over, and then it would be regurgitated, add some peas and fed to us again. I never felt that I was at peace in the congregation. In fact it was extremely stressfull.

rebel8

I did feel a sense of brotherhood and social safety, but it was imaginary.

Gopher

It may feel like a spiritual paradise if you're in the right clique. JW's have a lot of members who feel lonely and left out.

People associate with others who like them in return, or from whom they can benefit somehow. It's not really different than many other large groups (think back to the social structure you saw in your high school days).

JW's are supposed to be different. In the Bible they read, it says "If you only love those loving you, then you are not doing anything special". They say they are different, but in actuality they're just another group of people with their social strata.

tetrapod.sapien

i was enjoying it to the extent that a mind control victim enjoys his mind control.

katiekitten

Sometimes I would sit in the meeting with a stupid self righteous grin on my face, and other times id be real depressed. There werent enough thinking people in my cong to feel any sense of belonging or connection. It was like being locked in a room with the less intelligent half of a medieval village.

The only paradise was the one you halucinated after chanting 'spiritual paradise' for too long.

PaulJ

I used to feel I'd accomplished something when i finished studying my watchtower for the sunday meeting- but thats hardly a "spiritual paradise"... maybe its a "spiritual back garden- small, with a couple of shrubs and plants, maybe a rockery, but short or paradisical status"

sonnyboy

I felt nothing but the urge to leave.

I remember walking around after meetings seeing everyone with smiles plastered on their faces. No one can possibly be that happy, especially within the given environment.

greendawn

From what Gopher wrote we can see why a part of the JWs are satisfied with their life in the org, they have a social life and enjoy it. The rest have no reason to be there and suffer isolation. Might as well go back to old family and friends.

They falsely promise to all interested people a loving brotherhood upon leaving the world and accepting the "truth"

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