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AGuest wrote:

Many have unresolved issues with being excluded from something. For many, this is the result of having been raised JW children who, due to the tenets of the WTBTS, were often excluded from activities and topics regularly engaged in by their non-JW peers. That exclusion left them with a feeling of inferiority (and rightly so!), which feelings have not yet been conquered. To the contrary, whenever they feel left out, not a part, even perhaps prohibited or restricted from something "others" have a part in/access to... those feelings not only rise up... but with a "need" to "fight" that which causes them. What they don't understand is that is it not the activity, topic, or presenter of them that causes them this need: it is the dichotomy of their early WTBTS indoctrination that they have not yet fully disspelled. That indoctination is one that says, on the one hand, "You MUST belong, and here is the criteria/conduct/belief/understanding that MAKES you belong... and any who DON'T have it is inferior" while saying on the other hand "You must NOT belong to such criteria/conduct/belief/understanding and if you DO... you are inferior."

You MUST be "in the know" as to THIS... or be considered "inferior," but you must NOT be "in the know" as to THAT... or be considered "inferior." Because of this, they learned early to feel "left out", either by NOT conforming... or by rejecting activities/topics of their peers... and that feeling is anathema to them.

And then... here we come along. Too much for some with those unresolved issues to handle. Because we represent ALL that was "wrong" with their upbringing!

Shellama