Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

January 22, 2020

“Spending a life time trying to hid and control what others hear and think is like throwing ashes into the wind.”

Ecclesiastes 2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Proverbs 30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you don't know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don't know the work of God who does all.

Ephesians 4:14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Facts: Control freak. ... In the slang of psychology, the colloquial term control freak describes a person with a personality disorder characterized by undermining other people, usually by way of controlling behavior manifested in the ways that he or she acts to dictate the order of things in a social situation. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Those with borderline personality disorder tend to exhibit control over their environment by creating and exacerbating disruptive circumstances; thereby influencing others behaving in a certain manner to decrease the affected individual’s reactions.
• Narcissistic individuals control their own perceptions in an effort to cut themselves off from others and circumvent any hurt or disappointment that might result from those relationships.
• Those with paranoid personality disorder also control their own perceptions by allowing a severe distrust to develop for other people; this, in turn, also controls their environment in that other people begin to value their opinions less and less.
• Obsessive-compulsive personalities exercise control over his or her anxiety; instead of being held captive by their anxieties, they release them through their compulsions. by Mark Borg PhD