by hubert 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Thinking back, yes, I did lie... but I did not allow myself to think of it as lying.
When someone asked a question that required an answer that would be embarrassing for the WTS if answered in a candid manner I would "pad" the answer so the reality would seem more friendly and palatable for a non-JW.
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Thinking back, yes, I did lie... but I did not allow myself to think of it as lying.
Hum, self-deception? Is that possible?I'm with ya! I think we all do that, from time to time. D Dog
It depends on the individual JWs, I think some lie some don't. They lied to me about the 1975 debacle by blaming it on the R&F and on the annointed, that they are all "FDS" and supposedly contributed to the feeding of the dubs whereas the real "FDS" is just the GB.
witnesses run blind mostly, but i remember being economical with the truth at times about things.
Watching my husband struggle, I wouldn't call it lying exactly, but you definitely need the ability to maintain two conflicting thoughts at the same time. I imagine it takes a lot of mental energy to do that.
When my disfellowshipped brother killed himself, none of us told my father that my brother had been shunned by my mother, brother and sister. I hadn't gotten baptized yet, so I did talk to him but not alot. My brother and sister had not talked to him in years, and my mother had just been in town before he died and she didn't even contact him to see him. She hadn't seen him in years at that point. But when he died, nobody wanted to admit the shunning, so this part was kept from my father and the rest of my family that is non-JWs. At the time, I remember feeling like I needed to protect the "truth" so it didn't look bad to my father or the rest of the family. But inside the whole thing ripped me apart, because I knew it wasn't right, like so many JWs who know something isn't right deep down but they go along anyway. I would say that covering up or leaving something important out, is deceptive, like telling a lie. JWs will do this to protect the image of the organization.JWs who are studying with someone new won't usually tell them all the bad stuff until later, like about the shunning, and the possibility of death due to the ban on transfusions. They know if they told people this stuff up front, most people would show them the door.
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I would like for every person interested in becoming a witness to read this and really think it over. Would anyone in their right mind continue to study or show interest, knowing what lengths that they will be expected to go to in order to 'protect the image' of the organization? Even at the expense of doing the right thing? J
the ability to maintain two conflicting thoughts at the same time.
= cognitive dissonance
