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“So does this mean AAWA is going to stop shunning? Are they themselves not guilty of shunning those who shun? Shunning can never be stopped no matter how bad you want it to. As long as there are humans, it will never cease to exist.”
AAWA is not against shunning.
AAWA is against shunning as taught and imposed by Watchtower.
AAWA neither teaches nor imposes the sort of shunning taught and imposed by Watchtower.
“How do you stop a crowd of true believers?”
You can’t always stop a crowd of believers. But there is hope for stopping with the power of education. If not the crowd, individuals of the crowd. More than anything else, as far as I can tell, AAWA is concerting its efforts to provide and distribute education for interested parties and for general public consumption.
“Taking too much action only reinforces the doctrines of true believers does it not? Its a mental war you cannot win. The only way shunning can be slowed is to educate yourself, set an example to others, and provide info when they ask for it. Let it work its way out on its own. Then, change just happens all by itself.”
Exemplars are fine instruments of education but they are not the only instruments of education.
Letting things work out on their own ends up with lots of preventable suffering. If we’d had the internet back in the mid-20 th century at least tens of thousands of preventable deaths could have been averted because Watchtower's absolutely stupid blood doctrine would never have gotten beyond lunatic whispers inside the brains empty heads of Watchtower ding-bats.
As best I can tell, more than anything else, AAWA intends to be a new force distributing education; not a replacement force. A force that stands on the shoulders of all who came before.
Marvin Shilmer
