Read this PR piece about Jehovah's Witnesses (respond if you like)

by Gopher 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Keeping the law, my eye. They protect pedophiles within their ranks, silencing the victims (unless there are two witnesses, which there never are) on the threat of getting disfellowshipped for "slander". They do this in an attempt to make the organization look cleaner than it actually is. And that is breaking the law.

    How many other types of child abuse go on in the Kingdumb Hell itself, and no one says a damn word about it. I wonder how many times a child gets taken outside the auditorium for a beating. A beating is more than a spanking--a spanking is a simple slap on the behind that is meant to hurt, but does not do too much physical damage. Often they get beaten with that wooden spoon, a belt, or some other hard instrument and often more than a light slap or poke. And there are threats of even worse beatings when they get home. And for what? Not sitting still, fussing a bit, having to pee or to get some water, or for some other trivial reason. This is clearly a crime, and it is a crime to not report such abuse. Yet it goes on without any interference.

    They also break the law when they walk onto an enclosed porch, particularly one with a sign banning soliciting. If someone walks onto an enclosed porch uninvited, technically that's breaking and entering. I used to remind other Witlesses of this, but they went on the enclosed porch anyway. Two of Jehovah's Burglars.

    And there are also breaches in court orders. The Bible does not condemn blood transfusions. Often, with children, they will reach a point where a blood transfusion is blatantly necessary. Whether one is for or against allopathic medicine, allopathic medicine rules supreme when it comes to trauma situations (like when a 6-year-old, newly baptized, runs across the street to get his time started and gets hit by a car). These are the situations in which blood is most often needed, and the person is going to die or suffer extreme and permanent damage without the blood. The court orders the parent to allow the child to take the blood, and the parents refuse. Sometimes they use the specious term "mature minor" to get around this law. Here is a situation when the child blatantly needs something and is refused on the grounds of a cult.

    This doesn't even include all the DWIs committed by the hounders, the harassment (whoever got their house egged last Christmas knows a thing or two about that), hounding calls during work, and who knows might be up the pipe once the Kool-Aid Puketowers start coming out. These are not Scriptural (it's blatantly unscriptural to get drunk, and one can get disfellowshipped, but they drink and drive anyway). I don't think the hounders that egged that house on Christmas were acting in harmony with Biblical requirements (I would like to see, in the King James version, a scripture that says "Thou shalt eggeth the houses of those who participateth in Christmas celebrations".

  • oompa
    oompa

    Good Catch Gopher. How did you come across this, and what bigger city in NC is Waynesville near? I wrote the editor complaining about anti-ORAL SEX instructions from the Watchtower!

    just kidding all!......oompa

  • poppers
    poppers

    98% of the article is pretty "vanilla"; it's certainly not a ringing endorsement. The other 2% is just absurd and deceptive. Were I not informed by JWD about the dubs I would in no way be interested in checking them out.

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Clam -- I agree with what you say, except they probably wouldn't print the word "supremo".

    Awakened07 & Rebel8, I like your re-writes. They tell the facts about "the truth" more accurately than the puff piece did.

    Maddie -- I wrote this newspaper in direct response to their puff piece. As far as your local newspaper, they may or may not care to publish a letter from an ex-member unless there had been a JW-related news item lately. Most people in the real world don't give a rat's petootie about JW's, but we do of course. But if you care to give it a try, maybe they'll see a need to print such a letter.

    Snowbird - Thanks for also sending in a response.

    Freetosee - The writer was not a regular staff writer for this newspaper, as the byline indicates. I hope you also get a chance to put in a letter. If they get 10 letters, likely they'll print at least one or two of them.

    Oompa -- I did a Yahoo news search on the name "Jehovah" last night, as I occasionally do. This one popped up near the top. Waynesville is in western North Carolina, 30 miles southwest of Asheville, and less than an hour from the South Carolina border. The city has a population lf 10,000.

    This story is now on the bottom of the FRONT PAGE of the newspaper's website http://www.themountaineer.com

    Thanks all for the responses so far.

  • changeling
    changeling

    That made me incrediblely sad.

    His description of the meeting was dead on. And he took no liberties with what he was told about beliefs.

    I once would have thought: "That piece was a good witness".

    It was "nice" to live in that "bubble". When I was on the inside I felt protected and safe.

    My bubble has since burst. I am trully on my own and that's a little scarry.

    But I can't go back. The illussion is shattered.

    I see it as it really is: "a candy coated cult". Mind control at it's very best.

    "Do as your told, toe the line, and all will be well". A "Stepford" religion devoid of originality and "soul".

    changeling

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    Changeling,

    When I was a JW, I would have thought that this was a nice article, mainly because JW's get so little attention of any kind. WHen attention comes, and it's so glowing, it almost made you feel proud (for a few minutes anyway) to be a Witness.

    But the bubble HAS burst. We see the danger of the JW teaching on blood medicine, and the sheer cruelty and totalitarian nature of the disfellowshipping practice, and we wonder, how could we have swallowed all that stuff while we were inside the organization?

    Also, this article had a really boring introduction, giving facts about the meeting place and time. It sure seems like it was written by a JW, it was so boring. It didn't grab your attention like true journalism would. This wasn't real journalism, it was an advertisement. The story title should have been "Who the Jehovah's Witnesses say they are".

  • Shawn10538
    Shawn10538

    How many have written this paper? I just got off the phone with the editor and she said she has not received any letters or emails about it. Are you sure your emails went through. She reccommended mailing in hard copies of your letters to make sure they are received. Let's make waves at this tiny paper.

  • Shawn10538
    Shawn10538

    Here's the number of the editor. She's really nice and she will likely take your call personally. Come on people! To action!!! Don't let Watchtower disinformation prevail.

  • Shawn10538
    Shawn10538

    Oh, I forgot to put down the number.

    Main Office: 828-452-0661
    Fax: 828-452-0665

    I count six people so far who have written the paper. i know we can do much better.

    Anyone for seven? You guys have some great thoughts in your posts, now share them with someone who really counts, like the Mountaineer!

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