What Double Standards Exist With Jehovah's Witnesses?

by minimus 37 Replies latest jw friends

  • minimus
    minimus

    To be a "good Jehovah's Witness" you must be able to live by double standards. You have to know how to play both sides to the middle. You have to speak and act one way with certain persons and another way with the others.

    One example of how Witnesses live by double standards:You cannot join the YMCA because JWs can't involve themselves with religious matters or else be shunned. Whereas, the Watchtower Society is involved with the United Nations which very much involves itself with political/religious "fornication" as expressed by the Watchtower itself

    Can you show other examples of Witness hypocrisy???

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Post already running today under similar heading.

    http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/133172/1.ashx

  • pratt1
    pratt1

    Dubs have no problem, accepting a birthday gift, but they won't give one in return,

  • minimus
    minimus

    Didn't see that....I guess great minds think alike,huh?

  • minimus
    minimus

    I believe JWs easily can and do lie because they are taught that if someone asks a question without entitlement, they may be lied to. Taking that philosophy, it make JWs a very dishonest group because they can easily switch their views by wanting to believe a person has no real right to know something so they simply lie to whomever they want to......not good for a group that professes to be the most honest people on earth.

  • lonelysheep
    lonelysheep
    I believe JWs easily can and do lie because they are taught that if someone asks a question without entitlement, they may be lied to. Taking that philosophy, it make JWs a very dishonest group because they can easily switch their views by wanting to believe a person has no real right to know something so they simply lie to whomever they want to......not good for a group that professes to be the most honest people on earth.

    Excellent point! That alone gets and keeps people in.

  • LongHairGal
    LongHairGal

    The lying you mentioned is part of their theocratic strategy - which was only supposed to be used for times of persecution, such as if the nazi officer asked a JW where the rest of the JWs were hiding he would say he "didn't know" and this would not be considered lying because the persecutor had no right to this answer. So, the good JW was not doing anything wrong. I won't argue with this because I would be the first one to say everybody is NOT entitled to an answer to something just because they ask a question. Some things are nobody's goddamn business.

    The problem with the people in the religion is that this skewed definition of truth carries over into practically everything else they do.

    LHG

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder
  • minimus
    minimus

    It's wrong to celebrate holidays and you can get df'd for it BUT if an unbelieving husband as the head of the house "makes" you put up decorations or go to XMas functions, this is a conscience matter. Basically, 2 persons can do the exact same thing. One gets kicked out, the other doesn't.

  • sweet pea
    sweet pea

    How bout we can take blood fractions from the World Wide bank but we can't donate any of our own!

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