Merci

The isolationist doctrine of the doomsday cult traumatizes the boy and he becomes programmed to feel alienated from everyone outside of the JW church; referred to as “the world”. After a predicted Armageddon doomsday fails to occur in 1976, when he is 13 years old, the boy begins to question the JW cult organization. When he is 17 years old he leaves the cult and tries to regain his identity.

After leaving the JW’s he experiences rejection by his family and friends who are in the JW organization. He still feels the alienation program running in his psyche for many years afterwards. He begins to seek relief through alcohol and drugs. He stays medicated for 25 years. He intensely researches the JW cult and is convinced that they are definitely not the true religion he was brainwashed into believing as a child. He discovers that the JW organization is simply a cult started by Charles T Russell and maintained through the ages by strange prophesies and questionable leadership. He feels intense anger towards the cult organization and blames them for the alienation he and others in his predicament are going through.

Eventually he develops the courage to tell his family and close friends who are in the cult that they are going the wrong way. But it’s too late and this ends up causing the family to reject him even more.

Finally, at the age of 45, he decides that it is a battle which can’t be won. And he learns that the best thing he can do is give up and try to live out the rest of his years in peace and the understanding that anyone can be misled if they are desperate enough.

Doomsday Pie
by Anonymous

There I was six years old
Doing everything I was told
Prepare five answers for the hall
Raise your hand and recite when called

A young man walking through the world
Everyone looks different and doomed
They’ll never get to paradise
I’d best get rocky mountain high
Forever

I want to disillusion all my friends and family
I want to trade the doomsdays for the here and now
If you’re not in their truth you’re in a lie
Don’t want the doomsday pie in the sky

Now I’m the castaway
In no mans land and nowhere to pray
lost and won’t accept their truth
Outside their circle
They’ve cut me loose
Forever

I want to disillusion all my friends and family
I want to trade the doomsdays for the here and now
If you’re not in their truth you’re in a lie
Don’t want the doomsday pie in the sky

If you’re not in their truth you’re in a lie
Don’t want the doomsday pie in the sky

Here I am at forty five
Tryin to keep my dreams alive
they’re never gonna see the new light
It’s time for me to give up the fight
Forever

I tried to disillusion all my friends and family
I tried to trade the doomsdays for the here and now
If you’re not in their truth you’re in a lie
Don’t want the doomsday pie in the sky

If you’re not in their truth you’re in a lie
Don’t want the doomsday pie in the sky

What this does is throws off thinking. The whole purpose of language is to think, not just communicate. When you disrupt a person’s language, you also disrupt that person’s ability to think clearly–that’s what the Society wants. So you change the meanings of words, and the people are not able to think. And you eliminate certain words or expressions that might allow people to think clearly. There are many examples of these words that, though not swear words, are treated as though they were.

Example: The Society does not allow the following spoof cuss words: Darn, Gee, Golly, and Gosh. They also denounce the word Luck, because of its common use to denote spiritism. The word “Party” has been pulled out of our vocabulary, since they don’t like when people get together for the purpose of recreation when they could be out in the ministry. The words “Wish” and “Want” also imply that something is missing from the Organization that they don’t want people to express. The expressions “God Bless You” and “Holy Cow” also constitute foul language within the organization. Basically, any word or expression that could form a link to the outside world or that might create dissatisfaction and allow expression of such is classified as a dirty word.

My advice to anyone who reads this and is thinking of, or is in the process of, becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses is to check the official definitions of any words that they use. Even without that big fat dictionary, you can get the definitions of words by using your search engines. The next time they try to spam you with that generation nonsense, check up on it. You might find that they twist the meanings of words up to throw off your thinking. That is not what you want for yourself. It pays to do your homework from all sources before your study–if you still want to study after.