saw a watchtower in public area today...

by cptkirk 5 Replies latest jw experiences

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  cptkirk

  was weird. used to look at it as something positive. this time i actually covered it with other reading material, with the thought that i'd be helping people to stay away from it. pretty crazy, i wondered to myself why did that feel so good? really hit me...thinking to myself...calling these people a high control group doesn't really even do them justice..just plain scary group of people.

  just thinking about some of their doctrine that they got "new light" on. thinking about the people who try to shun and gossip others in the congregation out of existence....on things the damn GB was going to CHANGE the next year anyway. just disgusting.

  i'll never forget being in a room with like 5 jw's and them trying to run a brainwash deal on me, telling me the WT says i can't pray for one of my family members because they had "apostate" ideas....they were so zealous telling me that i absolutely could not pray for someone in my family.

  if i were to see these same people right now years later, they would probably go into the same routine as if they hadn't missed a beat. karma...
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  aquagirl

  If I see it in laundrymats or waiting rooms? I toss it in the trash.Like I would any garbage..
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  myusername

  I always tear them up and throw them out when I see them in public.
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  mrsjones5

  I also tear them up and chuck them like the trash they are.
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  LostGeneration

  Write JWfacts.com on them in big letters, then if the JWs come back and they are still there, they will know the enemy is near
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  cptkirk

  yeah. i have a bit different take on this. i think what you guys do is good and it is important...but for the same reason i never wrote a da letter, i can't really see myself writing anything on their material. maybe i'm wrong. the reason i didn't write a da letter is because when i thought about it, it just seemed ridiculous. like a grown man writing a letter to disassociate himself from the three stooges fan club. i can't even take them seriously enough to do this, and frankly....

  when i think back about my days in wt, if someone came at me angrily, it usually strengthened my faith. it's when people laughed at me, is what really made me question things. i'm talking about sincere laughter, not laughter couched in hate. i've posted on this subject before...the more serious you act directly towards them, the more serious they take themselves.

  bill maher really i think has the best approach when it comes to this bar none. he basically points out the ludicrous (he gets pissed once in a while, but mostly), and at the same time he remains *somehwhat* humble, in that he listens and says ok let me think about that....he doesn't even necessarily need to obliterate their argument, just via some glib questioning,makes them look absurd.