Does fear control the jw’s?
I notice amount several jw that a deep kind of fear are a long time partner in the JW person. This combine with a at long times experience of ignoring facts is why many stays even they see a lot of changes from the Borg and sometimes even bad things
I have been thinking about which rules are basis in this conflict or paradox. It must be very fundamental because so many are doing it.
We sometimes stick to the lie and ignore the reality even the lie not even look good anymore. Sometimes we see this when we buy a house. Looking good at the front but a closer look later on shows a lot of thinks broken down. You start to repair. Go to the bank for more money. Continue to repair and go to the bank for even more money. At last you have put so much effort and money in the house so you have placed your self in a situation when you are unable to leave the house. Even you see that the project is hopeless you continue – you have been doing this for so long time. So what do you do?
As human being we try to paint the reality according to the picture we want to see. We paint and paint even it fall of because reality is not easy painting. The JW have been trying to paint for a long times and have even been able to do this with some kind of success. One of the main and strongest tools has been the FEAR. Many JWs shows a great level of fear of the BORG. You do know the Borg are strong and are willing to use the power. So most don’t speak at all about their deepest thoughts – only the words expected.
This means that when a JW look at the world and the reality he looks at is as been wrong according to the BORG painted picture in his mind. Almost every JW think that the picture or the images is the right thing and every thing besides this is wrong – a part of the world controlled be Satan and the entire evil things.
Most JW have learned to get the reality to fit to the painted one. They are as we say doing an assimilation to get things to fit. That’s the really sad thing of a JW and very hard to change - even inside you self - and are still a big part of the way of thinking even you have left and don’t consider yourself as a JW any more.
It’s a long process to make you free from the JW fear and the typical assimilation. To turn this around and start to look - and also act - at the realty and the facts are not easy. To do this you have to be strong and that’s what JW normally aren’t. Only a few JW are able to stand up and speak for them self. JW are always speaking in groups and says the same things (read: What have been told to speak).
What are your experience and/or opinion?
Beroea