Were You Ever Really Happy or Joyful While a Witness? (page 3)

Honesty

I was off the pills in less than a year after I escaped.

I had the same experience with the Demons of Joe Hoba Land. Off the anti-depressants within 8 months and never felt better in my life.

greendawn

If the dubs need anti depressants then obviously the Holy Spirit is not working in the congos as they like to assert.

I thought I was...but after I left I realized wasn't. As I explained it to a witness relative.. when I was a JW I was like a person in a swimming pool, enjoying the water but all the time clinging to the side, afraid of what might happen if I let go. But now that I'm away from the WT and not listening to them, I feel like I'm in the pool, only now I can swim and dive and really enjoy myself, I feeI I have real freedom that comes from a one on one spiritual relationship.It's hard to explain but it's real.

luna2

I was happy in the beginning because I thought I'd found something real and special and magically delicious.

I'd just come out of an unhappy marriage that had been a huge mistake almost from the very beginning, and after nine years of emotional trauma, Jahoobe's Witlesses looked pretty dang good. They all lurved me and wanted to be my friend. Jah lurved me and wanted me and my kids to live forever. All the bad people (like my ex) would either get nice or be poofed out of existance (which was ever so much more kind and loving than letting the Debbel roast their cookies over an open flame for all eternity). Also, if I lived through the big A, I might even have a chance at finding a husband that might actually sorta like me even. WhooHoo!

Seemed like a pretty cool set up until stupid reality began poking holes in my happy delusions. Sad thing is that that started happening even before I got baptised but I kept making excuses because I didn't want to give up the dream of living forever in a petting zoo.

Panda

Nope

lonelysheep

No. I kept telling myself I was happy so I could tell others that I was.

zagor

I was happy as a child, loved reading so I guess first few years prior to my baptism I was simply immersed in literature and fuzzy feeling of "what if.." "What if this is really so" so that was a happy period. About 11 months after getting baptized I've started declining. In fact, I can vividly remember the moment when my decline started; I simply knew that instant deep down that I would eventually stop going from house to house. And I was regular pioneer at the time. I’ve hit the ceiling, though I continued with pioneering for another 3 years, that was truly the peak

Eventually started feeling new joy only when I was away from everything WTBS related. I the end I just couldn't make a fool out of myself.

diamondblue1974

In the Borg I would defy anyone to say they were truly happy...

Any happiness or joy is purely artificial...a controlled happiness born out of negativity and psuedo social acceptance; how can happiness stem from such controlled and restrictive environment?

DB74

jaffacake

then obviously the Holy Spirit is not working in the congos as they like to assert.

If they are not spirit begotton, (not one in the congo I visited, then how could the holy spirit be working with them?

And if Jesus is not their mediator between God and men, then why do they pray in Jesus' name?

My JW friend keeps telling me that since becoming a witness, he has found true joy & happiness for the first time in his life. At the same time he has started taking prozac. He says he feels what he is told he should be feeling, but the person he is lying to is himself.

acadian

Yes, no, yes, no, sort of...NO !

maybe there's somthing wrong with me I can't find joy...

OH... it's not me, it's the burdens the WTS put on me, that Jesus said he'd remove."My yoke is light."

Delusions of Grandeur ?

If it looks, smells, feels, tastes like Crap, IT IS !

Acadian

Were You Ever Really Happy or Joyful While a Witness?