WHAT DID THE WATCHTOWER STEAL FROM YOU?

nvrgnbk

Your youth?

Your money?

Your time?

Your energy?

Your weekends?

Your parents?

Your kids?

Your sanity?

Your soul?

Lots of time, money, energy, weekends, my parents and their hearts and minds , and some of my sanity( as if I needed to tell you that), a "normal" childhood, the opportunity to get a real education post-high school, etc., etc., etc.

Open mind

I was only half-way joking about the brain thing. I think being raised as a dub has a negative impact on a person's critical thinking skills. There's all kinds of hoops I subconsciously jump through before making a reply to anything. Who's listening? Who's going to take offense or repeat what I said? I like to say that I'm mentally free of the Borg, but I think it's going to take years, if ever, for that to really be true.

Open Mind

Bumble Bee

Saturday morning cartoons.

Sorry, just being funny - it's not something I like to think about too much!

BB

Vernon Williams

You know, I have been battling this thought for four years: did they steal it or did I give it?

I think it was a blend of purposful fraud and immature gullibility.

I am doing better with my anger issues: it is no longer a COMMON daydream to line the GB up and randomly pick three and castrate them. Then say: "I am only doing this as a analogy to show what you do to people's lives."

Now, that, I would say, is emotional progress.

Yours in this Struggle,

V

FreedomFrog

I think being raised as a dub has a negative impact on a person's critical thinking skills.

I so agree with that.

I believe in my heart that if they didn't play the "marriage counselor" I may not be in a broken home today.

Finally-Free

I wouldn't say the watchtower actually stole anything from me. I made a lot of very bad decisions due to my watchtower-based convictions, but I have to accept responsibility for my own choices - especially since I was an adult convert and had a choice in the matter. No one forced me to join the cult.

I gave up my friends and fiance to join the cult, and distanced myself from my family. I made some bad career and educational choices, but to some degree I've been able to make up for that. I chose to pioneer™ and I married a pioneer™ thinking we'd have kids after the big "A". Now I'm 49 and no longer have a wife, and no kids. I won't remarry - just the thought of getting into a relationship again is enough to make me break into a cold sweat. After 20 friendless years in the cult I'm no longer the easygoing guy I used to be. I've become socially challenged from the emotional isolation, and for the most part I don't enjoy being around people any more.

W

brinjen

Saturday morning cartoons, later Saturday morning music videos. My childhood, my sanity, education ( I held a very dim view of it on account of the WTS even though I was a good student and would have secretly loved to go to Uni and study The Arts).

LtCmd.Lore

Your youth?___ Check.

Your money?___ Sort of, they took my parents money, and me by extension.

Your time?___ Check.

Your energy?___ Check.

Your weekends?___ Check.

Your parents?___ Check.

Your kids?___ Nope

Your sanity?___ Thank goodness no.

Your soul?___ No, I did that. I sold it one day for a soda.

Lore

WHAT DID THE WATCHTOWER STEAL FROM YOU?

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