Are Witness policies {disfellowshiping} the same as Communist policies??

by Witness 007 3 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Witness 007

  If you compare the Watchtower Org. and Communist ideals how different were they?

  Communist = Stalin {Knorr} made the laws and decidied who wen't into exile, and who lived or died. Propaganda would be spinning 24/7 to make them look successful and re-write thier history. Comrads {Brothers} were encouraged to report to the state any un-patriotic activity {even their own relatives} In-doctrination and "re-education" of people using brainwashing methods was common. Shunning the outside world and allowing millions to suffer rather then admitting they were wrong. Spreading the Comunist message till half the worlds population was comunist. Gaining favour with other governments while secretly hating them. Banning all forms of worship except their own comunist ideals. Spying on defectors. Having a police force {KGB or Watchtower Elders} to enforce thier policy and punish dicidents. Citizens living in fear, of arrest or exile for any minor infraction. People forced to wear offical uniforms provided by the state. Banning all media that is Anti-comunist.
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  greendawn

  The WTS has a lot in common with the communists and the Nazis in that it imposes a totalitarian system upon the JW society. So the common points you mention are very real, they are clearly a fascist organisation.
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  Reefton Jack

  Having just finished reading Robert Payne's "The Rise and Fall of Stalin"; there are many disturbing similarities.
  
  Apart from those already mentioned on this thread, other similarities include mandatory attendance at boring, mind-numbing Political Meetings that drone on far into the night.
  Amongst the Communist Party Faithful, it was also compulsory for children to attend those same meetings:
  - where much was absorbed, but little opportunity given to evaluate.
  
  Still, what can you expect from two systems which had very little to do with reality:
  - One based on a Theory of Economics that proved to be flawed in practice.
  - The other based on the screw-brained ideas of a Book Publishing Company?
  
  
  
  
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  WTWizard

  Notably, the Watchtower Society fits the model perfectly. They have the members spying on others, and you can't even go in the store and buy something questionable without having someone who is a Witless seeing it, imputing wrong motives on it, and ratting you out. Try buying Halloween candy or Cadbury Creme Eggs (they are seasonal items) and having someone in your congregation seeing those items in your shopping cart. They will rat you out as if you were celebrating the holiday.

  They also forbid using outside sources. While they have banned apostate sources and discouraged the use of the Internet from the start, now they are cracking down on independent Bible research, use of neutral sources for verification of Watchtower doctrine and the NWT, and college. There is even talk of not trusting the mainstream newspaper when they have articles exposing the Tower! That is blatant information control, and it is only going to get a lot worse when the Kool-Aid Puketowers start coming out in a few months.

  And yet they call it "Godly freedom". This is nothing but a tyranny in the name of God. Banning holidays and other distractions, requiring everyone to spend all their time for the common goal of getting the whole planet under the dictatorship, controlling access to independent sources of information, and having people who delight in ratting out people for stupid things like celebrating a birthday (or even looking like they might be doing so--I wonder what happens to a parent that is buying balloons for a science experiment and gets ratted out as for a birthday!). And they call that freedom.