It has been many decades but it was implanted growing up. I tend to be aware of it and then discount it. My line of thought is if I have something nice that is worldly, not just material things, but friends, Jehovah will wipe me out. I toppled from the heights b/c of illness - not Jehovah -- and I am gun shy now. Therapy helps. It is a passing, stray thought. I try to convince myself to think logically. Jehovah is the getcha God.
Will I ever break free from primitive JW thinking?
by Mad Sweeney 12 Replies latest jw friends
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ssn587
it's a Pavlovian response to a stimulation. We have been conditioned to think like that, just as today, anything bad happening gets most dubs all sweaty and excited thinking the end is nigh. But alsas as time passes they realize it's just around the corner again. (ha ha) They never will reach the corner unless it be the corner of their lives. And as they lay there dying they wonder WTF happened to the end, this isn't what I wanted to happen.
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chickpea
HAH!
i hear ya!
we got a bill for my son's healthcare that
was not covered by insurance ... $495!!
right after we had paid propety taxes and
quarterlies..... no way we could cover itthen out of the blue i got a SWEET offer
to drive shuttle for out of town guests
and drunks for a wedding on jan 1$500 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i told a friend of mine:
it is times like this i miss having a god to thank!!but, i sent it out to the universe, that joy and delight,
in the possibility that somewhere, stars aligned for me!!! ;-)