Pig said

I've been thinking lately and one thing i can't get my head around is why i was deceived for so long by the JW's.
It is so obvious that the organisation is dogmatic, abusive and just plain wrong. They make it up as they go.

But when i just said "it is so obvious", then it begs the question, why the hell did I believe it?
Why would i listen to a talk that was full of obvious contradictions, generalisations and sweeping statements and then try to justify them in my mind, passing them off as 'just a particular speakers style' or 'it's correct if you look at it this way'.
Anyone who walked off the street would laugh and say 'what a load of crap'. Was i particularly stupid, more so than the average person who walks off the street?

I've been wondering the same damn thing! I look back and now and can't believe how blind and naive I was. I wanted to believe there was a loving god but the jw god wasn't so loving. I so badly wanted to believe in something. I wanted some good to be out there and I thought I was a part of it. It was just a goddamn facade.image I mean now that I think of all the mental abuse I was enduring. I was used to making up excuses. I was looking for something better and thought I had found it in the borg.

Chrissy

Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

-- Tuck Everlasting Alicia Heald

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