read them while you werre still active and didn't know TTATT yet?
I am wonderiing about your thoughts, and did you read, recognise, anything that disturbed you, familiariaties. Did you notice them?
did any of you jW read orwells 1984 or Animal Farm
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fizzywiglet
Yes, and also Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. There were little things I noticed and they were among the first books that inspired critical thoughts towards the organization. But I was younger, in my early teens, so leaving the JWs was not even a consideration at that point. It took a while for it to really register.
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Darkside Blues
I read both in high school. I saw the parallels between them and the WT immediately, and I was angry that I wasn't able to just walk away right then and there.
Indeed, Big Brother is watching you when you're in the Borg.
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finally awake
I read them both long before I became a dub. Amazing how a person can shut down his thinking ability. I read 1984 again after I left the borg, and it really struck me how well it fit.
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fresh prince of ohio
I read 1984 in my later teen years, and was profoundly affected, and frankly terrified by it. I mean, it really scared me, the sheer, well, dystopian-nessof it all. I credit that book and the movie The Terminator with filling my youthful self with a paralyzing fear of the future.
JWs came along, and their version of the future seemed much better than Orwell's and Ahnold's. So I went all in on it.
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blondie
and the ex-jw book by the Bottigs
I read them in high school (baptized jw) but did not quite see the connection till a few years later.
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JakeM2012
Yes, read them in High School in college prepertory courses. Took them apart and extensively discussed in class but did not make the connection until a few years ago.
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Tylinbrando
Read it twice before High School graduation. Have read it 3 times in the past 18 months and helped with 3 8th grade literature projects for my girls.
As a JW in middle/high school, never made the connection or even gave it a second thought. Going through it with the kids has been very rewarding as they both have enough knowledge of the cult that we can talk about correlations.
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Athanasius
I read 1984 when I was in high school during the 1960s. This was almost 20 years before I learned TTATT. Unfortunately I didn't make the connection at the time. Ironically in 1984 I read COC and did make the connection. That same year I resigned as an elder and faded.
In 1985 I read the Botting's book, The Orwellian World Of Jehovah's Witnesses. This book really drove the point home.
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zeb
The book was originally written as 1948 but the publishers realised it would have had a short life so the year was changed.