from personal experience: severe depression
Personality disorders among pioneers
by badboy 15 Replies latest jw friends
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Any that didn't have emotional issues? None that I knew of.
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jaguarbass
I pioneered 74 to 75. Thankfully they had a date for Armegeddon that revealed to me that they did not have the truth.
I did believe it was the truth in 74, I was young, impressionable and trying to do the right thing and looking to please someone, I thought it was God.
My father was not a witness, so I wasn't trying to please him, in fact I was probably pissing him off by wasting my life.
I think a young man raised in the Tower back in the 60's and 70's would have personality disorders of some sort.
But, I also think everyone has personality disorders some more obvious than others.
They say familiarity breeds contempt. When you get to know someone well enough you learn their quirks and personality disorders than you disdain them.
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badboy
BTTTT
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blondie
But personality disorder is a medical term...as opposed to the "crazy" term people assess to others.
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WTWizard
What I have seen among the pioneers was more self righteousness than anything else. They always had counsel to offer that was nothing but crap. It would frequently contradict what was in the Kingdumb Miseries, said on the platform, and often other pieces of crap "counsel" that they gave earlier. And it wasn't usually suggestions--it was more things I should be doing differently that were nothing more than personal taste issues.
We also had one become a regular pioneer after getting laid off from work. He always insisted on the group following the leader to the strictest detail (fortunately, he was quite lazy and frequently initiated coffee breaks). Instead of hunting for another job, he insisted on regular pioneering. He made a little money on the side on craft (or maybe "crap" would be a better description) shows and from fixing up old TVs that were found on the curb for the trash person. Needless to say, working in field circus with him was an open invitation to stagnation.
However, the worst was the humanoid I studied with. This humanoid was a regular pioneer that forced his then-wife to regular pioneer (and often made her late for work in the process). He insisted that I spend Thanksgiving and Christmas at his place (I was only 6 weeks in on Thanksgiving) so I wouldn't celebrate them. He wanted me to throw away music that others had little or no problem with (Journey and Simon & Garfunkel in their entirity). He wanted me to regular pioneer. He insisted that I needed to waste $15 on a fancy call book. He wanted me to get haircuts every 6 weeks, and at a guy barber's place. He insisted that I used liquid laundry detergent (at the time, powders did clean better but liquids would dissolve better and were not prone to caking in humid conditions). And so on.
I don't know if these qualify as full-blown personality disorders, but they describe the person who sees the need to make every decision for others (and especially the humanoid I studied with).