Yes.
Do You HATE The Watchtower Organization?
by minimus 34 Replies latest jw friends
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mraimondi
i disagree with the watchtower organization.
i hate a decent amount of their practices, but i dont have enough evidence to hate the people behind the org.
and i certainly dont hate witnesses, at all!
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minimus
I don't hate the Catholic Church, the Mormons or JWs.
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ziddina
I hate self-deluding, malicious, deliberate liars who destructively degrade or destroy
their fellow humans' lives - that includes many more organizations besides the WTBTS... Zid -
Dagney
I have hated them. But it was a heavy load to carry every minute. I tried to forgive, didn't really mean it. So I am doing better at accepting the WTBS...they are a speck in the world that my crazy parents decided to party up with.
Whaddya gonna do?
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minimus
Dagney, I get that. Honestly, I don't want to be consumed with hatred, if I can possibly help it.
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keyser soze
Yes. I think we need to make the distinction between hating the organization, and hating JWs. Hating the org is perfectly normal to me.
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SnakesInTheTower
Hate only eats away at the hater. It does nothing to the one hated (unless the hater acts on his/her hatred).
I decided that I do not hate any of them. I hate what the organization does. I recognize that many of the leaders (ie, elders) would be, or maybe are, just as bad in their secular jobs in middle management. The organization just feeds on that inner desire for power and control. Religion makes people accept it because it "must be God's Organization, imperfect people, I just have to deal with it." (If it were a job, the peons would say, "but I need my job, I just have to deal with it."
The upper echelon of the WTBTS (ie, the governing body, the helpers) would be the same if they were corporate executives at some big secular company. Every company or group of people has a dynamic, a mindset....WTBTS is no different.
I understand those who have been more directly impacted (loss of family due to shunning, blood issue, pedophiles, etc)....hatred is normal, but it is just as damaging ..... For them, I hope one day their anger dissipates into something constructive.
Once I realized that, I decided I cannot actively hate individuals. I just avoid them like a plague. I do have anger, do not get me wrong. There are a couple of those morons if I see them in person it will be difficult not to hit them. I just remind myself that prison is not worth it.
I have too much to live for now to allow room for hate.
Snakes ()
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lavendar
I hate the fact that the WTS has "imprisoned" my child. I don't hate the rank & file JWs. They are victims...who have lost their way.
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BabaYaga
Anger is a healthy stage of healing, whereas hatred and resentment will kill you, rather than the subject of your hatred.
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“ Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ”
Malachy McCourt
their fellow humans' lives - that includes many more organizations besides the WTBTS... Zid 
Malachy McCourt