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Jan 29, 2019
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10 Reasons Why Jehovah’s Witnesses Are Unhappy
If you were to tell a Jehovah’s Witness that he or she is in a cult, they would say, no the religion of Jehovah’s Witnesses is not a cult.
As a matter of fact, that’s the number one problem with cult members, they are the last ones to know that they are in a cult, while it easily noticeable by anyone else.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are no different.
Only when an individual “wakes up” as we call it, meaning when they come out of their indoctrination, can they clearly see that they were, indeed, in a cult.
Even though I left this organization years before I started becoming aware of the real truth about this so-called religion that calls itself “the Truth” did I realize that I had been the victim of a cult.
One thing that is prevalent in cults and which affect Jehovah’s Witnesses just as much as any other, it’s that people are not as happy as they pretend to be.
The common image that we have of Jehovah’s Witnesses is that of well-dressed smiley people that knock on your doors on weekends. But behind this public façade there exist much unhappiness and depression.
As a matter of fact, for having spoken to countless ex and waking up Jehovah’s Witnesses, I heard many more sad stories than happy ones. Most people I communicated with have admitted having been very sad, unhappy and even depressed when they were in that religion. And the reason I believe them, it’s that it was my own case as well.
There a plenty of reasons that make Jehovah’s Witnesses unhappy, but here are 10 very good ones.
1) Denial of Self
One thing you learn early on when you are born from Jehovah’s Witnesses parents and even when you join the religion as an adult is that the self doesn’t exist. You have to deny
yourself as a Jehovah’s Witness.
And no, it’s not just about being humble. It goes above and beyond that. As a Jehovah’s Witness, all those little things that could make the person feel good, valuable and important are taken away one by one.
For example, the Watchtower likes to say that celebrating your birthday is to put yourself forward as if it were almost narcissistic to celebrate the day of your birth.
The
Jehovah’s Witnesses culture goes so far as to teach that even celebrating Mother’s Day is to put your mother on some type of pedestal, while the only one that needs to be put on such pedestal is Jehovah.
In fact, subtly or not so subtly, self-denial is constantly hammered into the Jehovah’ Witness’s head through public discourses, publications, and videos.
Psychologically, self-denial is not healthy. According to researchers Morris Rosenberg and Timothy J. Owens,
people with low self-esteem tend to be hypersensitive. They have a fragile sense of self that can easily be wounded by others.
A person who has a strong denial of self will have a hard time accomplishing anything of consequence in life.
In the end, because the denial of self is unnatural, the person who is taught to deny himself or herself will feel diminished, non-existent, and depressed. Problems that are widespread among Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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