If my life had played out differently, I could easily see myself being this chipper stepford brainwashed elder right now, probably married at 19 and miserable forever after. It was a bad combination I never loved God, but I was terrified of messing up and making him and my family and friends mad at me. Some things really did make sense to me, it was the only viewpoint of the world I had any exposure to (brainwashing, heyo!), and above all, I just had the fear of "what if it really is true and if I don't go along with it, I'll die?" I was also a kid who loved being right and being praised, loved snitching others out cause it made me look better, and hated, hated, hated getting in trouble. Unfortunately for me, I really did believe that the Witnesses were teaching the truth. I couldn't memorize a scripture to save my life. I managed to hide the fact that I was a Witness from my classmates throughout the entirety of Middle School, I shucked off Bible Study to watch cartoons or read, and I didn't retain much of what was taught me when I was maybe eight or nine, in an effort to encourage me, my parents had me read through the Bible Stories book and threw me a little party when I was done, and during the party they were quizzing me about different Bible stories and I knew almost none of the answers. Everyone expected big things from me, but I honestly can't say that I ever had a lot of interest. Thus, I was the kid up on the stage at age 5 telling everyone that his goal was to go to Bethel when he barely understood what was involved in that.
My grandfather was an elder, and my father was not only an elder, but the Presiding Overseer most of my life. I was born into a family of Jehovah's Witnesses, several generations back on both sides. Warning, and my apologies: this is very, very long.
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