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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  herk

  Blondie,
  

  some children come out of abusive situations with little psychological damage and others are almost destroyed.

  I really doubt that anyone, even the best psychologist or psychiatrist, can really know to what extent a person is actually harmed by abusive situations. For some, the damage might not be apparent until later in life. Every experience we have--even every word we've ever heard--is registered somewhere in our brain and can have an influence on us under the right or wrong circumstances.

  The fact that you acknowledge that some "are almost destroyed" is sufficient evidence that WT influence is not healthy for anybody.

  I heard somebody say once that WT influence is like wine. For some people--those who know how to handle their liquor--wine can be beneficial. On the other hand, wine is dangerous when it's imbibed excessively. The problem is that the WT Society isn't content with people imbibing its teachings in moderation. The Society demands total immersion, something that is ultimately harmful in one way or another to any normal human being.

  You feel that you have personally benefited from being a JW. And I agree that anyone can gain some benefits by being a JW. However, overall, when comparing the good with the bad, I don't see how any reasonable person can honestly suggest that being a JW is basically a good thing in any way, shape or form. I deal with so many ex-JWs who are healing or trying to heal from their spiritual and emotional scars that I can't help but warn anyone and everyone to just simply swear off on WT intoxication before it ever gets started.
  
  Some really sad cases I know of are old men and women who spent most of their lives as JWs and who now have very little means of financial support--small pension, very little other income and living in loneliness with very few relatives and friends, if any. In fact, I know of one who has to confine himself to one meal a day and who is constantly in fear of someday being thrown out on the street. I also know of JWs still in the organization who would leave immediately if they didn't fear that kind of thing happening to them.
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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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  How Screwed Up Are You Because You Were A Jehovah's Witness???

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  after reading so many experiences about how being a jw affected a person's life, i wonder how your life has turned out because you were at one time a witness.

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