Is the average JW as brain dead as this poor woman?

Honesty

I actually stopped replying to certain sections of this website awhile ago now, I felt it was starting to get to me, certain comments that were made were making me think and I actually had to shake my head and snap myself out of it. What I did was remove myself from here altogether for a few weeks and I only came back last week to inform everyone of my baptism decision, I have still not even read anything in certain areas of this website, but yes most definitely has Sunday's Watchtower lesson put all of that into perspective for me. We do have to be very careful indeed of what or who we let into our lives, for if we do it can be extremely damaging consequences if we start to believe what we read.

The above quote is being brought to you directly from Beliefnet.com and proves without a doubt that JW's minds are being manipulated by the WATCHTOWER BIBLE and TRACT SOCIETY.

I think she has fallen for the white-washed version of what she would LIKE TO BELIEVE......just as the rest of us who weren't raised in the WTS did. We WANTED to believe it.....because of the love-bombing or the spin on the scriptures that allows us to believe that we can live forever in an earthly paradise or whatever they hooked us with.

Anyway, that's why her denial of reasoning on what she's being taught.

Frannie

Finally-Free

I felt it was starting to get to me, certain comments that were made were making me think and I actually had to shake my head and snap myself out of it

This confirms what I've suspected for a long time - stupidity is a choice.

W

lilybird

Yes.. sometimes it seems easier to persuade some people to believe foolishness than to believe rational thinking. To the point where they are afraid to reason and believe what seems true to themselves, ITs amazing this woman was afraid to read something that made her think indepentdently.This just proves to me more and more that the JW org is a cult.

SickofLies

greendawn

"We do have to be very careful indeed of what or who we let into our lives, for if we do it can be extremely damaging consequences if we start to believe what we read."

That is precisely the case with those that get entangled with the WTS, it is the perfect advice for them: The WTS can seriously damage your spiritual and emotional health.

Justitia Themis

I must say that our congregation has a good number of "thinkers" in our congregation. Though we choose to remain, we are not obtuse to the problems in the organization.

I suspect that the inability to think critically and reason is a problem throughout the general population. I recently heard the phrase "PBS attention span" used to refer to those who have longer attention spans and better reasoning abilities. PBS was included, I assume, because such persons tend to watch PBS type programs rather than the general television programming.

caligirl

I think that critical thinking skills are, in general, being killed off daily in the public school system ( I base this theory on the majority of teenagers I have met in the last few years.)

I think the difference with the witnesses is that they are being taught to actively surpress their thinking skills, whereas with the general public it is just circumstantial.

unclebruce

.....certain comments that were made were making me think ...

ooo I hate it when that happens ..lol

truthfullyspeaking

Good for her...whether a JW or not she recognises the need for positive influence in her life ...that certainly takes courage... hooray for you honey!!!

By the way , there are those caring for loved ones with strokes and other brain injuries, I fear your choice of words

are very insensitive...