https://knol.google.com/k/paul-morrison/why-jehovahs-witnesses-shun-people/290ks3g12r97j/3#
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Helpful discussions are not found at that website or other antiJW sites. I heard that it is shutting down because it collapsed from its own hatred that it creates. To find accurate information about JWs one needs to go to JWs. Many don't like the Watchtower, but there are other sites like http://www.jwproclaimers.org where there is information from JWs that is not negative and gives good spiritual direction. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "To find accurate information about JWs one needs to go to JWs."
Yes, and be sure to visit www.scientology.org to find out why you should join them![]()
I agree that the official website of an organisation is a helpful part of balanced research, but especially when investigating a high-control religion additional sources of information should be looked at.
All the more so when the organisation in question bans communication with former members under pain of disfellowshipping themselves.
Why are JW's, Moonies, Scientologists and Mormons so concerned with ex-members? (All recent American 'religions' ...hmmm...with the sole path to salvation only available through them... - see a common thread?)
Notionally shunning is to protect the flock from contamination, but in reality the truth can bear scrutiny. High control religious groups with whacked out dangerous doctrines can't risk letting members see behind the curtain.
Your presence and comments on this website are in fact in breach of JW rules and I applaud you for having that courage Neil - just don't tell your elders---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Breach of JW rules? The fact is that there are no rules.
Those things that you quote above are things that the world even looks down own.
How many politicians and and others have been brought down because they committed those things such as adultery, drug abuse, drunkenness, dishonesty, fraud, etc.
Why do people always say "don't tell your elders"? I don't have elders. Congregations do. What people do individually and does not reflect on the congregation is not their business.
Why Jehovah's Witnesses shun people, it is because those people have bad ideas and are not people we want to be with anyway. Rather than focusing on literature and quotes, it is that simple.