Why do we say Witness teachings are idiotic - Weren't all of us Witnesses?

by BonaFide 30 Replies latest jw friends

  • tenyearsafter
    tenyearsafter

    click on the little pencil icon to the right of the post time

  • Finally-Free
    Finally-Free

    I joined as at 25, a few years after my mother did. It was during the early 1970s when they first came, and critical information about the JWs was not so readily available. We were a Catholic family, but knew nothing about the scriptures, so when the JWs came to our door we were ill equipped to refute their criticizms of the church. Coming from a family that was largely uneducated didn't help our critical thinking ability. My mom had a grade 6 education. Once I was convinced the world would end before I had a chance to experience life, I dropped out of school after the ninth grade and lived as wild a life as possible.

    If I hadn't made the effort to educate myself later in life I may never have realized how little sense their teachings make.

    W

  • choosing life
    choosing life

    Thanks tya, too late now, but there's always a next time.

  • jaguarbass
    jaguarbass

    I didnt start doubting until 1976 when I was 24.

    But there was no internet in 76.

    I know I was a sleeping idiot when I was a jw.

    I may still be part asleep and numb.

    If someone is raised a witness, it is going to take them some time to grow up

    rebel and go on the computer and start seeing the light.

    Not just JW's are idiots.

    The masses are assess and thats how the governments and world leaders treat,

    and see them.

    Everybody is raised to be a consumer, to buy the bullshxt and not question.

    Everybody should question authority, all the time.

    Because authority is lying to everybody all the time.

    Half the time there is nothing anybody can do about all the lies, except to grin

    and bear it.

  • Tired of the Hypocrisy
    Tired of the Hypocrisy

    The teachings are idiotic. Being misled does not automatically qualify one to be an idiot. I don't view all idiots to be jw's and vice versa. Stubborn and blind maybe, but not idiots.

  • StAnn
    StAnn

    I agree with both Outlaw and TOTH.

    TOTH, your avatar is scaring me!

    StAnn

  • WuzLovesDubs
    WuzLovesDubs

    I came in when I was 30 eyes wide open but dumb as a box of rocks where the bible was concerned...and lonely...which left me gullible and naive, and absolutely perfect for their game. They love bombed me and told me things that MADE SENSE to me because hell...what did I know anyway? Nada. I had no ammo.

    And it took many years of being told the same things repeatedly, and gradual disassociation from everything I knew and away from BAD things and BAD associations to bring me into the fold thoroughly. It wasnt until bad things started to happen where I was in Witness World that I really started to compare notes to other religions and other bibles and other beliefs which was taboo...that I saw the discrepancies and it scared the living hell outta me. Then it ANGERED me that I had been duped just as thoroughly as I had been by my second, mentally, physically and emotionally abusive husband, who convinced me that I was nothing without him. STupid, useless and totally without hope without him. I had to leave HIM too, to see he had lied to me.

    Its all in the perspective. Does that bird in the cage think HE is the one in the cage or YOU from where he sits? Does his view change when the door is opened and he steps through it? Damn straight it does.

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    I'm very proud of the fact that I've been able to completely cast aside stupid beliefs.

    I'm not at all proud that I once held those beliefs, even with the excuse that I was born into them.

  • I quit!
    I quit!

    I have no problem admitting that it was stupid of me to believe that they were God's organization. I have done a lot of stupid things in my life such as taking drugs, getting drunk etc. A lot of the WT teachings are stupid. I don't know how anyone could be on this board and not see that. Some of the WT teachings go beyond stupid and can be lethal such as their blood policies. Nothing wrong with calling something stupid if it is stupid. Many witnesses may be nice people and smart people but it is still stupid of them to follow the Watchtower and I hope someday they will all wake up.

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    Ditto what Outlaw said near the top though I starting thinking it was crap around age 5.

    Josie ~ born-in

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