Doesn't It Suck That You Got Scammed By The Witnesses? (page 2)

Finally-Free

But that isn't really true, is it? At the time you believed it was true, so the telling of it was not wilful lying, surely?

I believed it was true, but I told lies as well.

"I'm not here to convert you" comes to mind. I'm sure there were others.

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xjwms

Although I will agree with Blondie here, .....

It's the YOUTH, and the ENERGY, .. that I lack.

What I want now, ... is out of reach.

In my youth, being an active JW wasn't all that bad. I had a great childhood and even though I don't have the friends of my youth anymore, I enjoyed it while it lasted. It does suck coming to the realization that everything I WAS, my life, morals, goals, beliefs, has been taken away from me. At first I felt like a lost soul, but I have tried my best to learn from it. It's caused me to value my life more now, to be more cautious with my mind and heart.... actually strenghtened my faith in God.

If You ask me If it would do it all over again...HECK no!..... but you live and learn.

daystar

I didn't get scammed by the Witnesses. I was raised in the religion. I was like, pre-scammed.

dedpoet

I gave up money, career, girlfriend and, for a while, my non - borg friends and family chasing a dream that turned into a nightmare.

Yeah, that REALLY sucks

garybuss

I think it sucks that my parents forced me into Witness fundraising on dirty street corners and meeting attendance when I was just 7 years old. I think it sucks that my parents demanded I continue with the ritual Witness behaviors as a condition for my parent's supplying me with food, clothing, and housing. It's obvious they never planned on getting old (or anything else), and maybe someday having to depend on me for their basic needs.
One element of the Jehovah's Witness group is . . . they're a religion. Religions make wild assumptions based on absolutely no proof and make wild promises such as people who follow their group never dying, with impunity. Religion by nature, requires "something" (cash, unpaid labor, time, and commitment) from it's customers for absolutely "nothing" in return. As an adult, I can figure this out with very little effort. As a child afraid of the dark, abused on every level (home, church, and school) and insecure about my living arrangements, it's extremely difficult to see everything I'm taught at home, in school, and in church, is a story, a con, an outright lie.
From age 18 to 30 I was willfully deluded, responsible for my own behaviors. From age 30 to 48 I was willfully ignorant, responsible for my own behaviors. After age 48 I suspended my ability to suspend disbelief and I committed the sin I avoided my whole life . . . I disbelieved.

jeeprube

Yeah, I want my childhood back. How much is 25 years worth anyway?

heathen

religion sucks ...... As quoted by rutherford , a scam and a racket .....

knot4me

Yeah, I am who I am because of what I have been through. But if I had it to do over again I would have slept with that hot guy who liked me in high school and I would have gone to college. LOL!!! Oh well, I guess I still plan to go to college in a year or so.

tfsm

think of all the wasted time you put into the "truth"-----for nothing! Sucks, doesn't it?

Like daystar, my parents got involved and I went along because I was trying to please them. Is there a point here or is this just the 'salt in the wound'?

Doesn't It Suck That You Got Scammed By The Witnesses?