Posted by: John A. | October 12, 2009 11:56 PM Having grown up in a JW household ... it is an EVIL EVIL organization. What they do to their followers is nothing short of brainwashing and mental abuse. The absolute FEAR they ingrain in you in order to keep you in their "happy" little flock is nothing short of suffocating. If you displease them, even in thought, they will "expel" you. What that means is that you are still allowed to attend their meetings, but no one, not even your family is allowed to speak to you or acknowledge your existence (less they be tainted). Or face expulsion themselves. And since you are not allowed to have friends outside of their group ... then that means that you are effectively cut off from the world, left completely alone. A terrible thing, nothing short of torture. I left as soon as I turned 18, and moved away to college. I refused to write them a letter renouncing my "membership" and declaring myself an Apostate, as they demanded. The first 18 years of my life where a living hell, especially since I was a secret atheist since I was first able to reason (age 6 or so). Oh, and did I mention that I'm gay? Yeah ... that went well. My brother is gay as well (in denial, although he "confessed" to me) and he believes that he is a terrible sinner for having such feelings, and spends all of his energy in that religion ... even though it's killing him inside. And he won't talk to me, because you know ... I'm worse than a murdered and child rapist ... I'm an APOSTATE! My parents are good people, they really are, I realize that now. It's just so sad that they are so thoroughly brainwashed. It saddens me to watch my younger siblings grow up in that environment ... but there is hope. My little brother, when he was 5 y/o said to my father "Jehovah does not exist, I can't see him". Wise words from the mouths of younglings indeed. (children know the truth. The above reminded me of my granddaughter who is 4 and was being questioned by her parents on where she'd heard what she was saying and she emphatically replied "I'm telling you from my own mind") I am now gladly the owner of a graduate degree, so they can shove their Watchtower into the deepest recesses of their anal cavities. So deep in fact, that it ruptures an artery, requiring immediate blood transfusions. Which, of course, they will refuse because of some archaic verse in the Bible that they themselves can't even explain. Morons ... |
