JWs Are Like Others: They Take The Good With The Bad (page 2)

minimus

JWs are as flawed as anyone, in reality. I am liking Witnesses less than ever but I see a very human pattern here.

Only a few types of people will think for themselves.

undercover

JWs, as people, are pretty much like anyone else. They've bought into some belief system that when looked at through critical eyes, doesn't stand up.

But you know what, all religion is nothing but superstition to begin with...JWs just have their own brand of it.

They and the Mormons maybe a little more cultish than "mainstream" religions, but just like inside other religions, you have your hardcore believers, your basic raised in it believers and your fringe members; both kinds of fringe...those that are almost inactive and those that aren't all there mentally.

There are more Mormons than JWs and they can't seem to face the absurdity of their beliefs. And if you get right down to it, Catholic beliefs aren't any more outlandish than Mormons or JWs. It's just that more people have believed it for a longer time so it seems "normal".

jaguarbass

Perhaps Jehovah's Witnesses are no different than the average person.....What do you say?

I can agree until you get to the point about staying in the religion. It takes a lot of work and energy to stay a JW.

But then it takes a lot of alcohol, therapy, self self books and medication to leave.

BreakingAway

If one means they're pretty much like others except for the fact that they:Shun others, including their own family members-even though it may cause them to become suicidal, let their children die because of not taking blood,disfellowship those for not agreeing with their religious leaders, don't celebrate holidays, birthdays,etc.,or honor they're parents because it's "pagan",allow child molesters in the cong. without informing anyone but will publicly mark someone for such "questionable" behavior as telling others they watch rated R movies or listening to the wrong music,removing men from postion because their children decide to get an education and even talk about it,don't plan for retirement because the end has been "just around the corner" for over 100 years,commend people for selling their businesses and homes to spend more time knocking on doors,ban beards,disfellowship a woman for wearing a pantsuit in "service",disfellowship a married couple for what they privately do in their bedroom,tell people what to think,wear,and act,claim that they're God's sole channel on earth and that everyone who isn't a JW will die, and and a plethora of other things which they fully support and give power to.Then, yes, they're pretty much like everyone else.

Quirky1

Very well put breakinaway!

minimus

It takes a lot of alcohol, therapy, self books and medication to leave the Witnesses.

fosol

Tomorrow we may all be dead, but how would that be different from any other day? The bible talks about a spiritual warfare, and we all are, like it or not, recipients of that warfare . Death can come for us at any time, in any place.

Now consider the alternative. What if they are right? What if the all the prophecies are true? What if tomorrow Armageddon will begin to come? Isn't that worth fighting for? Isn't that worth dying for?

oompa

mini....It takes a lot of alcohol, therapy, self books and medication to leave the Witnesses. ouch...but too true. There are a lot of normal and great people there....too bad cause they are really kinda brainwashed .................oompa

WTWizard

The problem is that the bad outweighs the good in that religion. Most of them will stay there because they have threatened them with busting up their families if they leave or believe something the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger didn't teach them. So they stay there, miserable.

Scully

I like the part of the introduction to The God Delusion, where Dawkins recounts his wife's experience in a school that she intensely disliked. When she talked about it with her parents years later, they were shocked and asked her why on earth she didn't say anything at the time, because they would have moved her to a different school. Her reply was "I didn't know I could".

I think this happens with a lot of JWs who want to leave but are afraid to do so. Leaving is not presented as an acceptable or viable option. If anything, it is presented as the worst possible option - it brings consquences socially when family and friends cut off association, and it is feared as the path to self-destruction.

This is precisely why we need to talk about our successes outside the WTS - we aren't all the self-destructive exJW poster children that the WTS portrays us to be.

JWs Are Like Others: They Take The Good With The Bad

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