Witnesses are not and should not be judgmental?

easyreader1970

Firstly, forgive me for not being able to quote the article directly. I noticed it yesterday while sitting in the Sunday indoctrination session. The article for next weeks Watchtower study talks about viewing other people as Jehovah views them. It stresses overlooking faults and imperfections.

One of the things that stuck out for me is that there are a couple of paragraphs that deal with judging. I am paraphrasing heavily here: Jehovah is the only judge of men. We as humans cannot judge other human beings and we cannot read or see what is truly in their hearts. People who are in the organization do things and have faults but Jehovah sees the future and what they will become.

Doesn't this directly contradict the whole purpose of a judicial committee? How can you forcibly remove someone from the congregation and force everyone else to ignore their presence comlpetely, even family members, if Witnesses are not to be the judges of men?

Or is this just a slow lead-in to them doing away with disfellowshipping eventually in a few years?

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Wordly Andre

Easy, That is some crazy ideas you got there, sounds like you need a time out with some elder supervision

Quirky1

Yeah, they're pretty d#mn judgemental if you ask me. And that goes for all of the Jdubs in the hall. I've seen all their little cliche's and if your not in their cliche they look down upon you and at times will completely ingnore your a$$.

Just another sorority club to me.

milligal

The theory about ending disfellowshipping seems like a stretch to me. It is JW's primary method of control.

1-they brag that they are better people (more moral) than most, fewer divorces, more righteous behavior good citizens etc.etc.

2-this is how they identify themselves, they are always right and any views outside of their own are always wrong

3-there is no way for them to enforce the behaviors they want to brag about without forcing out the people who won't agree and disallowing the notion that disobedience might lead to happiness to take root in the minds of the congregation

For example; you have a sister who is having marital troubles (husband hits her, watches porn and is emotionally absent) the elders are going to counsel this woman to remain married to her husband, God hates a divorcing etc. But what if this sister knows of another sister who divorced her husband and although not a witness anymore, she has found happiness and stability? The witnesses regularly block this awareness from taking place by booting out the person who has disobeyed and demonizing them (have you ever heard of a disfellowshipped person who was not a 'drunk' 'whore' 'barfly' ?)

The witnesses have to separate the disobedient ones from the flock in order to maintain control over those that remain. I don't think disfellowshipping will ever be done away with.

chickpea

INCREDIBLY judgmental!!

it is really irking me that any of the dubs who come around to "encourage" us automatically assume we have rejected god!!!...... uhhhhh, no! we simply have rejected the treadmill activities of a doomsday cult!

Eyes Open

I wouldn't say this is any indication of anything to do with disfellowshipping - they have been teaching contradictory morals for donkey's years.

logic

That is all the jws do is judge. When they walk away from a door where no one wants to listen to them , they say that person is going to die at armegedon. If you don't think like us, you are going to die. And they in particular judge one another. I you don't go to all the meetings you are going to die, if you don't go out in service regularly you are going to die. If you are doing this or not doing that you are going to die. I was going to say , you could write a book on what you can die for, but I woke up and realized they have already wrote hundreds of books on what you can die for.