Some are very much out there in trying to bring the Watchtower down. Some will go to extreme measures to see to it that everyone knows how wrong the Witnesses are. Others are less demonstrative and more liberal as to their approach and of course there are certain ones that are pretty much in the middle...... Where are you???
What "Type" of "Apostate" Are You? Conservative, Liberal or In The Center?
by minimus 29 Replies latest jw friends
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OnTheWayOut
If it will help fire up this thread, I will say that Minimus is a "bigoted WT apologist" kind of apostate
and then I can prove it. Oh, I am sorry. I attacked you just to make it interesting. Maybe you will
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minimus
OTWO, I was never "attacking" you. I have nothing against you.
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undercover
Well, first of all, I don't consider myself an "apostate". That's a label that the WTS has twisted to identify troublemakers. I consider myself an ex-JW.
I guess I'm in the middle. I don't believe in demonstrations, or picketing KHs, or distributing leaflets about the lies of the WTS. They have a right to their religious beliefs. And while some of those beliefs still cause me problems as I exit the faith, I'm willing to let them alone if they'll let me alone. I want to be free of their influence and if I was to spend all my time trying to bring them down, then in a twisted kind of way, they would still be in control me. I limit my expose of the JWs pretty much to this site and to any family or friends who wish to converse with me about it.
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minimus
Undercover, I totally agree with your position.
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Tuesday
Left of the Center....
Seriously I think I'm pretty liberal, I'm of the live and let live mentality. If they challenge me though, that's when I will take a stand.
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minimus
I'm not a "protester type" but they too can be effective.
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drew sagan
I think I'm middle of the road.
People have the right to believe whatever they want to believe. I doesn't matter if those beliefs take the form of a moderate consensus or reach into absurdity, they still have the right to believe these things. They can believe that God gave a man special golden plates, that UFOs will come and take us all home, or that all of the US presidents are of an evil reptilian bloodline.
But there is one thing no matter what you believe that you are not allowed to do. You cannot violate peoples civil liberties. To do so puts us in the dark ages. The Watchtower like many of the cults walk a thin line taking away peoples rights from them. Everything is paraded in 'personal choice' even though we see that the choice is coming from a group of 'higher ups' and not the person them self. I don't know if society will ever find a good way of dealing with this kind of behavior.
I'm not for taking the WTS down. We can't forget that many of the people in the organization right now would simply move to on to another high control group like the JWs because it is what they are used to and like.
Life is full of so much struggle. When or if the Watchtower ever disappears, there will be something to replace it. I'm more for support of those who are leaving the organization rather than just try to 'take it down'. -
kid-A
Not sure how political spectrum classifications fit into the apostate world.
I think more appropriate categories would be "Activist" (regularly picketing, public demonstrations, etc), "Vocal" (publicly letting known your disapproval of the borg, even if that includes anonymous posting on a DB) or "Passive" (just living your life and not letting the memory of the borg bother your thoughts).
In this case, I would call myself somewhere between "Vocal" and "Passive".....
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ColdRedRain
I'm a libertarian XJW. They leave me the hell alone, I leave their members the hell alone. Their members bother me then they better be prepared to defend their shaky beliefs.