I NEED ADVICE ON WHAT TO RECOMMEND

by ElderBarry 39 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Scully

  If you want to approach it from a non-threatening, non-JW point of view, I would recommend Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steve Hassan.

  Without attacking the JWs at all, he highlights similar tactics that most cult groups employ in one form or another. This is the kind of information that "clicked" with me when I was an active JW. I was watching a Social Psychology lecture on the university channel and the professor was describing group dynamics, how groups operate to control people within the group, and how groups operate to attract people to join the group and keep them from leaving the group. Without saying a word about JWs, I could identify a JW-example of the situations he described. It was a true moment.
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  hubert

  I read half your post, and already decided what book to give your friend.

  Crisis of Conscience.....Concerning many in this forum, I noticed there was no more guilt about leaving the Watchtower god after reading this book.

  So, this is my first choice. My second would be "Captives of a Concept", but you better read it first, before you give it to your friend, so you can debate it.

  Hubert
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  ronin1

  COC and In Search of Christian Freedom- both written by Ray Franz

  Ronin1
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  jwfacts

  Crisis of Conscience is the first place to start, that has to have resulted in more people leaving than any other book.

  I would recommend you print out http://www.jwfacts.com/index_files/5min.htm and give that to her to read. As a newly interested one she is likely to be totally unaware of JW history, how much the doctrines have changed in such a short time and the wrong predictions.
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  Honesty

  ANSWERING JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES Subject by Subject by David A. Reed

  The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a JW by Ron Rhodes
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  daniel-p

  Elderberry,

  Have her read the Book of Mormon. That should clear things right up.
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  JamesThomas

  What book should I recommend?

  I wouldn't recommend a book; rather suggest she spend more time seriously investigating nature by looking through telescopes and microscopes and hiking out into nature to get a damn good sense of the ungraspable infinite expanse of life and universe. Then she will likely be able to see the foolishness of attributing such unending wonder and beauty to some little tribal deity.

  j
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  Arthur

  How about the Bible?
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  asleif_dufansdottir

  I never have read COC. By the time I *would* have read it, I didn't believe anymore so it didn't matter, so I can't comment on that.

  However, I really question whether somebody who already believes part or most of what the WT teaches, will accept anything written by an apostate as anything more than a pack of lies trying to turn her away from the truth.

  I liked what another poster wrote about group mind control tactics.

  Since she has a child and has said she'd be willing to break the rules for him, print out a bunch of news articles about the pedophile/coverup issue.
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  ElderBarry

  Wow! You guys have a lot of great suggestions. I am going to try to get her to read more than one. The idea of telescopes and nature and actually reading the Bible sans Tower turds is a good idea too! Thanks all of you!