by highdose 9 Replies latest jw friends
You know when they refuse to attend family functions that invole anything religous, won't chink glasses, won't allow their children any freedom etc
from their perspective they think they are setting "a fine example" and givng a "good witness" the outsiders just think they are bat crazy but the JW's just can't see it????
From the GB perspective it is a win-win. The JW alienates family/relatives...leaving no outside support system.
See it's easy.....
By bringing attention to Ourselves............
Others will know we are JW's and talk and discuss Jehovah's Name among themselves and who knows.....maybe ask a Question!
Then The Preaching Work May Begin...........
If I remember my Brainwash Lesson Correct!
Since the days of Charles T. Russell and especially with Rutherford, the Watch Tower Society promotes ways to go to extreme lengths to be different. The reason giving usually has to do with Jesus' saying that he was no part of "the world" and neither are his people. The reality is that it is nothing more than a marketting tool.
Humans are naturally curious. When someone is acting different people want to know why. So, when someone asks one of Jehovah's Witnesses why they refuse to participate in [insert normal, accepted activity here] the Witness is given a pass to repeat their doctrine in hopes to convert you.
This brings up another related point. Why is it that the difference is always negative? That is to say, the difference in Witnesses is a refusal to do something. It's never a matter of something that they do.
Witnesses may respond: "That's not true. We are the only one's involved in a worldwide preaching work."
My response is, "Wrong!"
I get more Baptists knocking on my door wanting to talk about the Bible than I do Jehovah's Witnesses.
Truth B Known......
That's what I said LOL!
yours is the real reason.....mine is my JW spirit Talking! it's Dead
I may look Crazy..
But..
I fit in at the Kingdom Hall..
Would you like a Bible Study?..
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...OUTLAW
Outlaw should be arrested for starting laugh riots!
Oulaw,
I always imagine you in a studio that you have added to your home, setting up props in preperation for a photo that will be appropriate to add to your forum response. As laboursome as all that may be.... keep it up :)
They want to make people feel that, if they do anything that regular people do, they are blowing their one and only chance to bring those people into the cancer as a guilt trip. You celebrate Christmas, among its being so bad in its own right, you just blew a chance to bring in others by not celebrating. They could have seen you not celebrating, wondered what was so wonderful in your religion, and joined that way--but no, you had to go and put up that Christmas tree. All it does is puts up a guilt trip.
In reality, most people are turned off by such rubbish. Putting up a Christmas tree is perfectly normal--whether or not Jesus was born on December 25, whether or not you are indeed worshiping the sun and the Devil, that is how most people think of Jesus. Now, if someone not only doesn't do it but objects to others doing it, they are not going to want to join that religion. Whether it be by speaking against Christmas music, bashing the lights that decorate the yards, or doing things to sabotage things (like disabling or, worse, ruining lights, turning off their Christmas music, etc.), you are going to get people to not want your religion. They see that, if they join, they are not going to just be able to mind their own business but they are going to have to worry themselves sick about things.
This also goes for everything else. Not joining field trips in school, not saluting the flag because of religion (as opposed to because they don't believe in their country any more), wasting all their time going door to door, dressing in dorky dresses and suits, and giving up good jobs to pious-sneer are just as bad. Usually, the witlesses will miss out on things in school--which will not draw others to want to miss out. I don't think I would have wanted to miss out on the fun things for a damn religion when I was in school, and I don't think many others want to either.
I totally agree with isaacaustin and charlie brown jr
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