Shunning is a Great Anti-Witness

outofservice

I spent an hour and a half last night on the phone with my mothers boss.She has worked for him for years and I have known him since I was a teenager. He called because he could not believe she was not coming out here to see her oldest grandson graduate from high school. He said I offered her a plane ticket and everything I could think of to get her to come and she refused. She has been telling them that for the last 7 years plus she could not visit with us because we don't go to meetings and aren't serving God. And everybody that she works can not believe a religion would separate a family.They are all pretty religious at her work place and have talked to there pastors trying to understand the witnesses on shunning and the main thing they get is that JW's are a cult and this is cult control. So the way I see it she can spend hours each week pioneering trying to bring people in but just by her example at work she has shone the real side of the witnesses. So when they come to these peoples door they immediately mention the shunning to them and JW's have yet to give them a reasonable answer. So I am going to send him copies of all the great things that have been on here about shunning. I also am going to make a DVD of all of V's Watchtower comments and send to them because he asked me about blood and the 144,000 and I think those videos are great and easy to understand.So I have got all this time in who do I report it too?

isaacaustin

Disfellowshipping is one of the first things i talk about when telling others about the Witnesses.

BabaYaga

Out of Service said: So the way I see it she can spend hours each week pioneering trying to bring people in but just by her example at work she has shone the real side of the witnesses.

Bravo.

passwordprotected

Great post, you illustrate a good point re. her pioneering!

leavingwt

Good post.

Yes, shunning is an excellent anti-witness. I've never spoken with a non-JW that agrees with shunning. They think it's absurd and they usually say, "I would never disown my children", etc.

-LWT

sspo

The first thing i tell people why my marriage ended up in divorce is the fact that i did not want to be a witness anymore and the wife

left me contrary to what the bible says and now have been shunned

by family and friends even though i'm not DF or DA.

That blows everybodies mind and realize that the JW's are nothing but a cult.

garybuss

I've found I don't need to do any negative advertising for the Jehovah's Witness people. They do a fine job all on their own.

hubert

Every year, I like to bring this letter up for the newbies. It's called...."An open letter to Jehovah Witnesses", by Gail Noble of Arizona.

Here it is....

You may not remember, but I know you very well. I met you a long time ago when you came to my house with your smiling faces, your neat clothes, and your soft voices, and a Bible tucked neatly under your arm. You told me many beautiful stories of a "paradise earth," and a "righteous new system" which would be established shortly. You beguiled me; I listened and I let you teach me your form of Christ-dignity.

I loved you, I devoted most of my life to you, I was loyal and obedient, never realizing that one day I would come to disagree with everything you had to say. When I first met you and learned of the "paradise," little did I know that in order to get to that paradise, I would have to walk over the dead bodies of beloved family, cherished friends, and casual acquaintances, because they didn't want to be Jehovah's Witnesses. With your soft, sweet voices, and gentle manner, you convinced me that everything and everyone who did not agree with you was "evil." I came to believe that other churches were bad and of the devil, and so were their members. I became convinced that all the governments were wicked, including my own, and that I was not to support the country in which I lived. I believed you, I loved you, trusted you, and served you and never suspected that you were capable of deceiving me.

I loved you so much that I raised my precious children as Jehovah's Witnesses. I taught them that you were trustworthy, and true followers of God and Jesus. I trained them to believe your every word. How could I have known that in the future you would steal my own flesh and blood from my arms and prevent them from seeing me because I would come to disagree with you? I never noticed the fangs of oppression and tyranny that lurked behind those gentle smiles. I never knew that I would be expected to hand over my mind, soul, and spirit to you, and if I were to ever want them back, you would hold my children as hostages and no amount of begging and tears would release them from your grip because they had been raised to look at you as being God, rather than mere men.

When I came to you, I was young and pretty and impressionable, looking for a relationship with God, my Creator. But through slick words and empty speeches you convinced me that I was not really a child of God, that my duty was to the organization-that THEY would tell me what to do and how to think. Through years of domination and manipulation I began to accept the meager food that was being offered to me, and became willing to accept it as the true "spiritual" food from the Master, while all the time feeling the gnawing at my body. Finally, I discovered that I had been robbed of my joy, my love, my compassion, and my mercy, and it was replaced with legalistic doctrinal formula which provided me with fear, guilt, and anxiety to fill my hungry heart. When I said, "I want more than this," you slapped me with your soft little hand, which had now turned into an iron fist of oppression. Yes, you fooled me all along, your deception was because you had been fooled too, a long time ago, by others who had taken you captive to their dictatorial reign of terror. You convinced me that the words of men were the words of God because you really thought it was true. I believed you because you were gently, soft spoken, and carried the Bible tucked under your arm.

You told me that you had "freedom" and it was only later, when I tried to escape your brand of "freedom" that I discovered that the iron bars of the gate had been shut and I was at your mercy because, by this time, you had already gained control of my mind and my emotions. I cried and begged you to please let me go, and you said, with your firm, roaring voice, "not until I have stripped you naked" and you did. You stripped me of my dignity, my self-respect, my honor, and my FAMILY! You told all my family and friends that I was demonic, evil, an apostate, a spiritual fornicator, and good for nothing but total destruction by your angry God whom you had tried to pass off as a God of "love." They believed you, and they still believe you, because their eyes are blinded by the promise of "paradise" and they cannot "see" the Hell that surrounds them. The ever illusive "paradise" is held out to the gullible like a carrot in front of the nose of a rabbit, and causes them to sacrifice their family, friends, careers, education, hopes and dreams on the altar of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

Now I'm older, now I'm wiser, but now it is too late- life is fast slipping away. Through my tears, I cry out for my beautiful daughter and grandchildren, but you grip them tighter and tighter and tell them that YOU will be their "mother." And so you are, and so you are! I begged to recapture my honor and my dignity, but you laughed with your bright, shining teeth, and said, "No way, you're on your own." Somehow those soft, pretty words weren't soft and pretty anymore, but words of slander, abuse, hatred, and hostility- and you said them in such a way that others would think that you were righteous and I was evil. You lied about me, but no one will believe you LIED because they trust you-that's because you are soft spoken, gentle, and carry a Bible tucked neatly under your arm.

Gaila Noble

ARIZONA

DaCheech

in their minds, they give a great witness (by shunning) and any negative comments are from satan controlled things.

anyway, if I ever get df'd and loose my family to their policy..... i would even stand at the hall's corner with billboards.

good experience, and let's hope this wicked religion will destroy itself

OUTLAW

Gary Buss makes a good point..I was visiting with some people on the coast..The subject of Jehovah`s Witness`s came up..No one had anything good to say about them..Blood/Shunnig..These people knew all about it..I told them I was raised in it..LOL!!..............They were happy I escaped.. Swinging Monkey ................................................LOL!!...OUTLAW

Shunning is a Great Anti-Witness

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