Apostates/ex-jw's do you think that you are "addicted" to JW's-bashing?

by booker-t 21 Replies latest social family

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  XU

  stop
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  XU

  bashing
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  FlyingHighNow

  It's not like they aren't causing a lot of harm. And personally, I don't care for them snowing my only sister and youngest and favorite brother into treating me like a I'm a rotted and forgotten corpse. Their blood policy has harmed both of my children. I don't bash the JW's daily or even weekly. But yes, I do say something when it needs to be said. The WTBTS is as harmful as the KKK or the Nazi party on its own scale. So should we leave them alone and never mention their dangerous policies, doctrines, dogma and hijinks? No. Does it mean we are bashing them? No. They need to be exposed for the devils that they are.
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  Black Sheep

  My father has spent his life bashing Christians.

  KN#37 is bashing Christians.

  My family and their friends bash their families and friends that have left the cult.

  I am quite sure that none of them perceive their actions as 'Bashing'.

  Why should my attempts at pointing out the error of their ways be considered 'bashing' when their attempts to do likewise to myself and others are exempt from that description?

  Cheers

  Chris
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  Rabbit

  My psychology professor told me as long as ex-jws continue to "bash" they will never move on with their lives. Pain and trauma occurs when one leaves a group but to continously "bash" and "bash" for the fun of it just is a waste of time.

  The only "fun" I ever have here is when I am on some other subject besides JW's.

  There is nothing 'funny', in my opinion, about the destructive practices, beliefs and loyalty the WatchTower demands from it's followers. That blind loyalty has killed thousands of JW's over the years due to depression, suicides, prohibitions on blood transfusions, organ transplants and vaccinations.

  So, so many of us are STILL being shunned to some degree by people we love -- who in turn have been taught to "throw away" (or lose their own life & freedoms) anyone who leaves "The Truth."

  Hundreds of JW children have been sexually abused and their molesters have 'gotten away with it' because of the "2-witness rule."

  And you tell your psychology prof. we "bash" JW's ??

  And you keep starting threads like this...always accusing 'us' of being the real problem ! I've noticed too...you usually "hit & run," rather than stay around and get into a discussion.

  Perhaps I should have said, "bash and run."

  Rabbit
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  fullofdoubtnow

  If exposing the wts as the mind - control that they are constitutes bashing, then I will carry on bashing.
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  LittleToe

  I don't bash JWs. Occasionally I'll recall some idiosyncratic behaviour that I observed in the past, and will post about it, but that's more reminiscing than bashing.

  I'll highlight what I believe to be faulty beliefs, when making a particular argument in a discussion, especially given that it's a common reference point for many of us here. To ignore that reference point would be to ignore a whole raft of beliefs and feelings that we understand, even though perhaps most of us have moved on. I don't think even your Psych professor would argue with that logic, nor call it bashing.

  I would have to ask you to define what you mean by "bashing" before I could go any deeper into this discussion.
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  carla

  By 'bashing' do you mean telling others of the negative and harmful nature of the cult? I find that the only people who consider it 'bashing' are those still active jw's or those who still hold their 'unique' beliefs. Do you consider the news 'bashing'? Or informative? or sometimes both?

  So called apostates don't really need to make anything up the wt is insane enough without having to do that. Why not try to keep others out of a destructive cult?
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  AuldSoul

  booker-t,

  It seems to me that those who have invested more in a relationship are reasonably going to be far more pained by discovery of infidelity than those who have invested little.

  Further, I would applaud a woman who discovered she'd been in an abusive relationship and left, but who went the extra mile and sought to prevent others from entering a relationship with the same person who damaged her. Wouldn't you? If not, why not?

  Personally, I don't bash JWs all the time. In fact, I rarely ever bash a JW, and to my knowledge have never bashed JWs. I bash the organization that has them captive in an abusive relationship, and I do so proudly. But certainly not all the time.
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  Clam

  Yes I feel the same as Auld Soul, I'm anti organisation not anti-individual Witnesses.

  I, like many, left when there was no support system or internet. I left believing that Armageddon was still coming, that blood transfusions were wrong, all kinds of stuff. I had to extract this brainwashing myself, so I have cartainly moved on thanks.

  I visited this site for a couple of years before joining. I liked the atmosphere and the will and desire to help others that have been in the same situation. I may slag the WTS off, after all I see it as a damaging cult that ruins people's lives. I can't help getting angry about that. Your psych professor fails to see the whole picture. If you get hurt by something then it's worth warning others so that they don't get hurt. That's not necessarily helping you with your own personal healing process, that's just being a decent human being.