How will the Society prepare JWs when they call on inactive apostates?

by truthseeker 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  orangefatcat

  Firstly I would never admitt to being an inactive apostate. I wouldn't even mention the fact that I was a witness for 38 years. I would talk to them , so long as I don't know them, I am very well know far , near and abroad., But if this person didn't know me I would play a mind game or two with their head. I could say I am a Bible Scholar or I am a Student in University and am planning on attending Trinity College.

  I would indeed love to get their knickers in a knot, it would be fun. But I live in a very high security dwelling a health center so it is almost impossible to gain entrace here. But witnesses aren't stupid they can con their ways in.

  orangefatcat will eat the rats.
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  RubaDub

  They may encourage brothers to carry some garlic in their service bags.

  Rub a Dub
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  Jeremy C

  There is no need for any significant game plan. Simple reminder articles in the Kingdom Ministry on "Apostates In the Field" is enough amunition for the average Witness to reject unflattering information. Remember a very important point: Jehovah's Witnesses have already been systematically trained to dismiss all unflaterting facts about the organization by the use of ad homenim arguments. It's quite simple. Anyone in the field who displays too much knowledge about Watchtower doctrine when raising objections can be dimmissed as "one who does not have a right heart condition", or "one who does not want to accept the truth". These slogans have been repeated for as long as I can remember; and are quite effective in sheilding the JW mind from inconvenient facts.

  Remember: all it takes for a householder to receive the "apostate" label is to demonstrate an above average knowledge of Watchtower history, doctrine, or policy. That is when their address is added to the "Do Not Call" list on the territory card. However many of these individuals may be in the territory is irrelevant.
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  yknot

  Well if we continue as we have....... the Sowers of Satan will be even more vilified and the JWs urged to seek even more isolation within the Dubbie Land (a Gestapo state). To make sure of this the GB has ordered a pseudo-recapture strategy. This way good JWs will seek out inactives and either get them back or be able to mark or report those unwilling to submit to the 'slave'.....

  For those who have been out for years or are not assoicated with local KHs....... well an new 'Angels' talk will be circulated with the message of them directing the steps of those in FS to either protect them from the terrible apostates or placing them at their doors to test the JWs resolve, allowing Satan to tempt them like Job. This way if a JW is faced with a ExJW, they will view it as a test or an angelic heads up for them to strenghten their devotion to the "God's Organinzation"
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  wobble

  Yknot , I think you are smack on the mark,and whether this has happened by accident,or if there is already some instruction out there, TWO separate bros. that I left questions with,guys I have known for thirty or forty years,have not come back to me.

  My wife saw one of them the other day and said I was waiting to see him, he replied in something like the terms of your post!

  I don't think either will be back,mores the pity, I would like to help both of them.

  Love

  Wobble