Great reply to "Apostates only tear down, they never build up!"

by SweetBabyCheezits 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  SweetBabyCheezits

  There are so many fallacies at play, it all comes down to propaganda. The WTBTS paints reality for its adherents: Confusing (or intentionally misrepresenting) causation and correlation, insufficient sampling of statistics, counting hits while forgetting (and forbidding communication with) misses, and just a dash of truth to tie it all together - voilà!

  Those who leave the Organization and go on to lead successful, happy lives outside will never be featured on a District Convention or in a magazine.

  On the other hand, there are some who get DF'd - still blindly believing it's the truth - get into trouble on the outside and then run back to Mama Org. For members who remain inside, these examples just confirm the "reality" painted by the Society. These are the experiences you'll hear at the DC.
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  Mad Sweeney

  The response also betrays the mindset of the indoctrinated, which is that answers are things that must be provided to them, not things for which they must seek and discover themselves. The mentally enslaved haven't the first clue what freedom of mind entails and so they cannot see that being set free is a gift, even if they don't know where they are going once released.

  I think about a news/talk show I saw in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Sean Hannity and Jesse Jackson (IIRC) were arguing about the dozens of unused buses that could have evacuated hundreds or even thousands away from the impending floods. Jackson used the common JW refrain, "Where were they supposed to go?" and Hannity responded, "AWAY from the FLOOD!"

  Harriet Beecher Stowe's character Eliza Harris could have asked, "Where am I to go?" but she didn't. She just headed north and didn't let a big frozen river get in her way.

  What does it matter where you go as long as you're free? If you're truly free mentally then freedom follows you EVERYwhere.
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  lifeisgood

  I stayed in the Jehovah's Witness cult longer than I should have. Because I was afraid of life outside the cult. And afraid of losing all my friends and family. And afraid that I was wrong somehow and I was condemning my wife and children.

  Later on I just couldn't do it anymore and I left. No big drama, no meetings with the elders, I just never went to a meeting again.

  I wasn't overly sad over leaving the cult. I was sad about some other things but the cult had no answers for them. It wasn't too long until I never even thought about the cult or its teachings or my former friends any more.

  Now, I am happily married to a wonderful woman who DESPISES churchianity and I have great relationships with all my relatives. The non-JW relatives never even asked me about leaving the JW cult. MY JW relatives try to talk to me about it once in a while and I just smile and say "ohhhh".

  The governing body are a bunch of lying scumbags who just manipulate people to do what benefits the governing body.

  The thing that makes me so upset about them is that if they REALLY wanted to give people spirituality then they could. but they would rather manipulate and abuse their followers instead. Scumbags.
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  satinka

  The young lady in the video stated it very well...she gets to choose a life that is right for her. Since leaving the JWs, she has her free will again. Bravo!

  satinka
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  willyloman

  Nominating this entire thread for Best of 2011 (so far).
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  willyloman

  Reviewing some of the great comments here:

  A sense of tremendous peace came over me the moment I accepted that what I believed was a lie, and when it came to the question, "then what IS the truth if not THIS . . . ?, being able to say with all rationality, "I don't know, and it's OK that I don't know".

  Exactly! Once you realize that, you're well on the road to recovery. That was my "liberating" moment, along with the realization that I did not have to spend my life sitting in judgment.