the feeling of superiority JWs feel keeps them in the organization. Because so many haven't gone to college, don't have careers, in the real world they would be "nothing," but in the org they are told that they have real knowledge that even those who have been to the seminary don't. My mother is one of the superior JWs. She feels that she is better than worldly people, and most JWs because she really knows the bible (NWT). In reality however, she can barely keep a roof over her head. In all other aspects of life she is a perpetual screw-up. The KH is the only place where she has self-worth.
you NAILED my family to a 'T'!!!!! My mother has emotional issues, and so she throws scrip and doctrine in your face as if she sits at the right hand of God. LOL! She is NOT well liked in the cong because #1 - she is extremely judgemental, #2 - she feels she has the 'right' to counsel (brutally) whomever she wants, calling herself a 'seasoned sister', and #3 - she criticizes those that don't live up to HER spiritual standards (even though most things are supposed to be conscience matters). Add that all up, and you have one nuckin-futs woman!! I love her dearly, but she can be unbearable when she is in JW mode, and the worst part is that she can't FUNCTION without it...she can't hold a job, has many health issues, emotionally can't even handle keeping her house CLEAN let alone managing her time, she has NO friends (short of a 98yr old sister in the cong that lives in a retirement home and has stage 4 alzheimers - whom she calls her 'best friend'), she is not close to ANY family (not her own - and she can't stand my fathers family because they are all 'worldly') and when you try to speak to her about anything logical, she immediately breaks into tears and accuses YOU of disrespecting her. Without the JW 'aura' hanging over her head, this woman would crumble. She has no career and no life...so being a JW gives her a purpose of some sort - validation, where if she walked outside the JW world, she wouldn't even be noticed.
