Thanks Dino, Life as a Witness was just a continual double bind. There never was a good choice. e.g., Go to meetings when I am tired and need some rest, or be seen by my friends and family as spiritually weak or ill. It never ended for me.
Francois, The life in the Watch Tower Corporation and life in my parents home was all the same. There was no home and church division. It was the home phase of the religion, and the school phase of the religion, and the book distribution phase of the religion. My parents kept me overwhelmed all the time with religious threats and personal threats. I never had a break from it as a juvenile.
They wanted to be sure I behaved as an adult as they tried to educate me as a child and it worked.
1. Make me go to hundreds of boring religious meetings as a child, I grow up to hate boring religious meetings.
2. Beat me and yell at me and I grow up to resent you for beating me and yelling at me.
Anyone add to the list?
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