A Better Weapon Than Doctrine

by metatron 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  How do help JW friends and relatives to break free from
  the stranglehold of cultish thinking?

  Arguing about doctrine may trigger an automatic Witness mind
  shutdown by labeling you an apostate. Most Witnesses are too
  uneducated and schooled in uncritical thinking to evaluate
  much evidence. Asking questions forces them to think - but often
  needs to progress in 'baby steps' to allow long disused
  reasoning powers to reawaken.

  Beyond that, a better weapon may be exposing Watchtower DECLINE
  and DOWNSIZING. While doctrine and clear reasoning may be alien
  to most Witnesses, the decay of the organization may be much more
  personal and familiar.

  Contributions have declined
  Publishers going down in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia
  Meeting attendance is going down
  Bethel is downsizing
  No more subscriptions
  Fewer, cheaper books
  No food offered at assemblies
  Witness divorce
  Witness suicides
  Elders quitting
  Sparse baptisms

  and the roundhouse punch,
  Witness kids are leaving the 'truth' everywhere in the developed world.

  This stuff is often safe to talk about - and can open minds.
  The Society fears the Doctrinal Implications of this erosion.
  Why else did they create 70 hour pioneers and 15 minute publishers?

  Ask: Why do the meetings have to be so boring?
  Why can't they do something to retain young people like
  other churches?
  Why is Jehovah letting them run out of money?
  Will things get better after certain old men die?
  
  The evidence is growing all around them.

  It's time to awaken them to it.

  metatron
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  sleepy

  I think they're downsizing brain power too.
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  Elsewhere

  Evil apostate! Don't you see that Jehovah is just separating out the wheat from the chaff?

  Buahahaha! NOT!

  "As every one knows, there are mistakes in the Bible" - The Watchtower, April 15, 1928, p. 126
  Believe in yourself, not mythology.
  <x ><
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  dungbeetle

  Metatron--you are so right.

  I keep reading these posts where they're saying "oohhh I brought up the false prophecies, the UN, the generation" blah blah blah.

  Given my druthers, if I had that one shot at a JW mind, I would bring up:

  the rape resistance doctine, now approaching it's 40th anniversary.

  Why are women not allowed to carry microphones, do the Bible reading even in the bookstudy? Why a 14-year-old boy rather than a 40 year-old woman, married with children, with years of education and experience and maybe even a pioneer?

  why shun someone who has had a blood transfusion. Allowing that Religions have the right to expel members for snything under the sun, why demand shunning?

  See, JW's have no scriptural support for this, and you are doing what Watchtower does not---evoking real emotions for real people.

  LOST LOST OPPORTUNITIES...
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  Hyghlandyr

  Why df someone for a blood transfusion?

  my wife doesnt even think you can be dfed for a blood transfusion.

  When I became a witness I KNEW the doctrine...a lot of jws you would be surprised,dont really know the doctrines that well. The main doctrine anyhow, the thing taught most at the meetings is:

  Go to meetings,
  Do personal study
  Go out in service.

  Maybe that is what is boring at the meetings for some people. I mean HONESTLY! I am already at the freakin meeting, you dont have to tell me to make it to the meeting.

  Anyhow got that off my breasts.

  The other points are good, I am going to start using them.

  My wife has recently opened up more to me. But then I think it is because I really dont give a damn one way or another. I mean ok, like I said to her today, the Witnesses have their hypocricies, so do all the other religions. Who cares? I sure dont.

  Well, except that if I can get her out, get her to join my cult (not as a slave of course but as one of the leaders) and get her to accept her bi-sexuality (all women are bi-sexual, this is a proven scientific fact), and accept 2 other wives into the union, and seven concubines.

  Wife #2, Irish, red head.
  Wife #3, Scandanavian, White head.

  I am working on the layout of the concubines, and I will keep yall posted...but basically I figure:

  Latin American
  Native American
  Hindu (prolly american)
  Middle Eastern, belly dancer..ohhhhh yeaaaah. (prolly american)
  I had considered this or that for the final three, but most likely black.

  So, if yall can help me with techniques to get her to accept these things I am all ears.
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  Sunspot

  VERY good post, Metatron!

  Beyond that, a better weapon may be exposing Watchtower DECLINE
  and DOWNSIZING. While doctrine and clear reasoning may be alien
  to most Witnesses, the decay of the organization may be much more
  personal and familiar.

  Contributions have declined
  Publishers going down in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia
  Meeting attendance is going down
  Bethel is downsizing
  No more subscriptions
  Fewer, cheaper books
  No food offered at assemblies
  Witness divorce
  Witness suicides
  Elders quitting
  Sparse baptisms

  and the roundhouse punch,
  Witness kids are leaving the 'truth' everywhere in the developed world.

  I don't have any JWs that will come within 40 paces of lil ole me, but you sure gave me some interesting points to bring out in my news-forum campaign!!!!

  I call it my "cause", 'cause I don't want ANYONE else to be duped by the WTS tactics......

  I enjoy your posts!

  hugs,

  Annie