Utterances from the mouths of JW`s that prove they are in a cult. Any?

by jambon1 21 Replies latest jw friends

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  jambon1

  Quotes from the WT publications are indeed hair raising enough. But I find the utterances of Jehovahs Witnesses themselves to be even more intriguing. Mainly because it shows just what kind of people the religion produces.

  Below are some that stand out to me in from my time in the organisation. Please add your own.

  An elder - "I really want to be watching it all from my window when the people are dying". Doesnt this sound strange? Most people find death and destruction repugnant.

  A pioneer - "At the end of the day, there is no cure for them. The have to die!" Similar to the above, but their mind is closed to the fact that even bad people can change and learn to live a good life. The fact that their 'solution' is death to 6 billion people is just, well, twisted to say the least.

  A sister - "It is really difficult for us all to have nothing to do with my brother but we just have to do it Jehovahs way". The brother was disfellowshipped and wasnt coming back, ever. Describing her parents having to 'shun' their only son as 'difficult' is by far an understatent! I would have used the expression 'gut wrenchingly impossible'. But there you have it! Difficult! Cutting family ties forever because he slept with some woman. Difficult?!

  An old sister - "We were told in the 1950`s that armageddon was just around the corner. We always say, Its been a long corner". Not even questioning the fact that they may have got it wrong (on a number of occasions). Blindly accepting that, despite this failure of prophecy, it is still 'the truth'.

  A mininsterial servant, whilst discussing a brother who had been badly dealt with and had subsequently left the org - "You know, the bible does say in Psalms that 'there is no stumbling block for the righteous' ". In other words, "I am not wanting to hear about how he stood up for a child being abused. I dont want to think about how he was given the cold shoulder by the elders and CO. I dont want to know that said abuser was found guilty in a court of law. Even if the stumbled brother was right, he shouldnt have challenged the elders!!!!!!"

  It just goes to show what power the WTS has over such a multitude of people. It is an organisation that has produced the most brain dead, unfeeling, unquestioning, cruel, heartless set of people I have ever came across.
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  diamondblue1974

  My mothers favourite party piece is to say referring to Jehovahs Witnesses.

  'we are the most counselled people in the world'!

  DB74
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  SirNose586

  Last thursday, the PO was talking about how we have to explain the "no part of the world" scripture to others. "..and make sure you explain that we don't exclude ourselves from the world, because we don't want to sound fanatical," he said.

  If you have to defend yourself as "not fanatical," then you really have to think here....
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  yaddayadda

  What about JW's going door to door saying "when Armageddon comes I'm having that house there"....
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  lighthouse19something

  I remember a in 1969, a jw said he was packing away canned goods in his attic.
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  Amazing

  Hi Jambon1,

  "You know, the bible does say in Psalms that 'there is no stumbling block for the righteous' ".

  In all the 25-years I was a JW, and in the 15-years since I left, I have never heard that scripture brought up, especially in reference to loyalty to an organization. Excellent! What a purely twisted use of the Bible to justify ignoring someone who left for reasons of consicence ... or in the case you mention, because the person spoke up against child abuse. This is exactly why the organization fails to see the criminal and wicked behavior they employ that has ended up shielding child molesters right in their own ranks. They are going to get a rude awakening before long. Thanks for posting this thread.

  Jim Whitney
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  Seeker4

  My brother-in law elder, when we were talking about a few things the Witnesses believe that didn't make any logical sense: "When any questions like that come into my head, I just get rid of them and refuse to think about them."

  Ugh - braindead and proud of it!

  S4
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  SoCal101

  because the "Society" says so.
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  jambon1

  Hi Jambon1,

  "You know, the bible does say in Psalms that 'there is no stumbling block for the righteous' ".

  In all the 25-years I was a JW, and in the 15-years since I left, I have never heard that scripture brought up, especially in reference to loyalty to an organization. Excellent! What a purely twisted use of the Bible to justify ignoring someone who left for reasons of consicence

  Yes, I found this one particularly alarming. Basically he was saying that we should put up with ANYTHING in the org, and certainly NEVER question the elders, even when they are wrong! Because 'jehovah will sort it out, leave it to him'.

  Twisted and plainly wrong reasoning that is accepted by millions of people.

  Weird.
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  james_woods

  For those of us (like me) old enough to have been going to the meetings at the time of the Jonestown mass suicide - remember the ridiculous lengths that the elders had to perform to extoll the danger of being in a "cult"? Off the record, many honest elders that I knew at the time were privately horrified at the points of similarity that the society was having the witnesses perform in a perfectly "cult-like" way.

  I have often wondered how and if the Jonestown tragedy helped to subtly form part of the basis for the dissent of the Ray Franz era. I know it sure made me stop and think, although I was already troubled by the rigid WT teachings and their false prophecy at the time of Jonestown.