Our Goal - Help them LIVE LIFE

by joelbear 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • joelbear
    joelbear

    What should our goal be as individual exJW's who are still tied to the organization through family and friends.

    Our goal should not be to bring down the Watchtower. Our goal should not be to get people to stop being JW's. Our goal should be to help people live a full life whether they remain a witness or not.

    Attack the dangerous ideas that keep people from living their life.

    Ideas like:

    1) The end is very very near, no need to plan for the future. You should combat this not by attacking the chronology ideas, but by gently guiding people to follow their dreams and helping them plan to do this.

    2) We are no part of the world, we should only go to meetings and associate with witnesses. You should combat this by gently getting your JW relatives and friends involved in volunteer groups and other ways of showing them that most people are basically good and that there is nothing "special" about Jehovah's Witnesses.

    These are the beliefs that are life altering. These are the core values that we can help them change over time. We can do it.

    hugs

    Joel

  • bboyneko 2
    bboyneko 2

    Our goal should be to organize a massive apostate bake-off and go door to door to every JW and send a cream pie in their faces, thery helping them 'see the light' and snap out of it. They will surely see the humor in this later.

    -Dan

  • joelbear
    joelbear

    Actually Bboy,

    This was about the most serious post I have ever made on this board.

    I hope people will consider it seriously.

    peace

    Joel

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    Right on, Joelbear!
    Your post is as outstanding for its content as it is for its brevity.
    Once I left Bethel for the real world, the first myths to fade was that of our uniqueness as a ``special people'' and the total absence of virtue or decency among non-JWs.
    As I've stated once in an earlier post: If called upon to make a list of the ten finest and ten worst people I've ever met, there would be JWs and non-JWs on both.

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