What Do YOU Think Is The BIGGEST Revelation That Has Gotten JWs Exposed???

by minimus 40 Replies latest jw friends

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  prophecor

  For me, it was the fact that much of CTR's calculations for bible prophecy were based on pyramidology.
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  minimus

  I used to think that since the light was old, I just had to chalk it up to we're a progressive Organization. But then when I looked at the origin of our beliefs and how they evolved, then I started reading with a new point of view.
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  Blueblades

  Also "Captives of a Concept" has been a help to some.

  Blueblades
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  OnTheWayOut

  I'd like to say it was CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE, but many JW's used things like this to
  confirm their leaving. What has gotten JW's exposed is the revelation that you can
  simply use a search engine to find so much negative about WTS. Also, the computer
  allows them to verify what they find quickly on their WT library.

  Kudos to Randy for freeminds.org. That's one of the best ones they can find.
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  blondie

  The lack of love, the backstabbing, the lying about lying, not being able to trust anyone.

  Blondie (every other source confirmed what I already knew)

  The WTS sinks their own ship.
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  slimboyfat

  No scandal impressed me. I think I just grew up a bit. I learned that no source has all the answers. I learned to question whether the notion of "answer" is even a useful one. I discovered that others who do not believe in the Witnesses are not necessarily stupid or bad. Although not all voices speak with the same force, I grew to believe that other viewpoints deserve to be heard. No thought should be excluded. If it is excluded, then by whom and for what purpose? Jehovah's Witnesses are not especially wrong. That is why I don't go in for exciting scandal narratives promoted by apostates on this site. The nature of Jehovah's Witnesses's error is the banality of the everyday. They are just as wrong as the Anglicans in their cold stone palaces, or the evangelicals in their clapping crowded halls. They are not more wrong. What is wrong about the Witnesses is not that they believe things that can be disproven. It is rather that they teach a religion that can be exposed merely by its initial claim to truth.
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  undercover

  It wasn't any one thing but a combination of things for me.

  I became somewhat disillusioned after the generation change but still had not made a conscious effort to research my doubts. After a time of being inactive, little things that I had ignored or was oblivoius to started to make themselves more apparent and made me question even more.

  And then there was the congregation itself...the backstabbing, the cliques, the gossip, the coverups, the preferential treatmenet...none of this should be happening in the true Christian congregation.

  Then when I started to question doctrine, it couldn't stand up to scrutiny. Then I got brave and searched Jehovah's Witnesses on the Internet. I was paranoid at first. I started by searching on doctrinal issues so as to try to avoid "apostate" websites. But when you search on the blood doctrine or the 144,000, invariably sites like this come up. Pretty soon I got over the paranoia and started looking at any site that talked about JWs. I found some to be informative, most actually but a few others to be wacko. I had to learn to sift through the tons of bad press about the JWs and determine which was reliable info and what was just crap spread by people with an axe to grind.

  After combining all that I discovered, from doctrines that couldn't be supported, to dates that couldn't be verified (607/1914) to the scandals (like the UN) to my own observations of life as a JW, they became exposed in that I knew now that they were not God's Organization on earth.
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  dedpoet

  I left in 1999, before news of the UN scandal came out, and the programmes
  on child abuse were aired in various parts of the world.
  
  I had started to have doubts because of the elders handling of a couple of
  situations in my kh. I felt that they had acted in an unscriptural, unloving way,
  and started doing some research of my own into wts teachings. Then I read
  Crisis of Conscience, and that was enough for me. I left a few weeks after that.

  None of the major scandals that have emerged since have surprised me at all.
  What else should we expect? A cult whose beliefs are founded on half-truths
  and downright lies are bound to slip up and get caught in their deceit eventually,
  and that's what's happening to the wts now, and the good news is there is
  nothing they can do to stop it.

  It's like blondie says, the wts will sink their own ship, and their's is sinking
  ever faster.

  dedpoet
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  Tyrone van leyen

  This Board, thanks to Simon! Every day people read it and heal and organize themselves. Even non witnesses look at it. It will never stop and it is a powerful information tool to debunk crap and expose truth. It is a powerful punch in the face the watchtower has no response to.
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  garybuss

  For me, and more than a few like me, it was the year text for 1974.