How do you fell when you look back at your time as a JW ??

by karter 42 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Hope4Others

  I have no animosity. I figured the Lord got me where I am today via a detour through the Society.

  RR

  What a wonderful attitude, getting on with life what's lost is lost. lol hope4others
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  DanTheMan

  Embarrassed. It's such a weird thing to have on your life resume. "I joined the Jehovah's Witnesses at age 22 and stayed in until I was 31."
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  Reefton Jack

  I feel a lot of things,but very few of them any good.
  
  I still cannot fully explain how I fell for the whole thing in the beginning, and then remained suckered-in for so long afterwards. (Embarrassment features strongly here!)
  
  The only benefit that I came away with (flawed as it may be) is learning how to speak in public.
  But ..... even that was a bloody expensive course in public speaking!
  
  
  Jack.
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  oompa

  As a 4th gen brainwashed from birth I feel:

  BITTER

  CHEATED

  DEFRAUDED

  MISLED

  DEPRIVED

  VIOLATED

  CONTROLLED

  DUPED

  IMPRISONED

  BRAINWASHED (did I say that?)

  LIED TO

  MISGUIDED

  STILL TRAPPED (by family in)

  Bitter...again....................oompa
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  Dagney

  I hear ya oompa. **sigh**

  I know it wasn't all bad. But what matters is today and what you make it. I have worked hard on letting the past and current expectations go with regards to that time. So I don't like to think about it much. I'd rather think about everything I want to do now.
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  R.Crusoe

  LIFES RENDEVOUS WITH LIARS!
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  OnTheWayOut

  Life skills such as public speaking could have been learned somewhere else.
  I view it as a total waste of 2 decades. I cannot credit them with any of the good
  that comes out of those 2 decades.

  I met and fell in love with my wife. Sure I am thrilled to have such a great lady. But
  she is still a dub, may stay a dub. Who's to say I am better off married to a dub?
  
  My career is despite my dubbiness.

  I am bitter and waste more time on JWD because of the bitterness.

  If I were never a dub, I never would have met some great former dubs. There's a plus.

  I cannot believe I did all that field circus and put so much effort into meeting parts and
  such, sat for hours at the conventions, lived around the theocratic schedule.
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  Frequent_Fader_Miles

  Sometimes I wish I could go back in time to enjoy my teenage years a bit more.
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  White Dove

  Angry and wasteful. I was doing what I hated for so long that I had talked myself into loving it and practicing tough love on myself: angry determined to be good face.
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  White Dove

  Oompa,

  I totally agree with you! Yes, it WAS all that bad. Just try being a 4th and convince some others that it was really really bad. They don't understand. Everyone in my entire life for generations were in and pressured me through talking about others spiritual failures to stay in and do more more more. I'm with ya. I'm a 4th and kids used to be 5th. Now the JW family are down to 3 generations and don't even know it. I'm faking it with them. I think that faking enjoying sex is so much easier that this. It's the PITS!