I believe they do.
LoisLane
Do Jehovah's Witnesses, suffer from Stockholm Syndrome? What do you think?
by LoisLane looking for Superman 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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yadda yadda 2
Ok, let me be the first to be irritated by having to ask the obvious question: What the hell is Stockholm Syndrome? Is it something to do with ABBA?
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Bugbear
I think that the Stockholm syndrome is when the captive takes the part of those who imprission him or her. It happend 30 years ago when 2 bankrobbers take hostage and held them for days in the bank trying to get free by treathen the hostage. Those who were imprissoned by the robbers called the prime-minister from the bank and said that the robbers were really nice poeple, and that they should free them give them the money.
The thing is if the imprissoned one did that becouse the liked the robbers or if they were scared to death? In the watchtower case I think that many of the captives do like the GB. But they are also scared to death to say anything that could cause dfws, or shunning. The tradgedy is that the robbers now is cashing in the money, and the majority of the captives do not understand that they will die anyway.
Yes the situation is very similar to the Stockholm syndrome
Bugbear
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ohnightdivine
I think I am still a captive...
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slimboyfat
Is it something to do with ABBA?
Lol!
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Xanthippe
What the hell is Stockholm Syndrome? Is it something to do with ABBA?
Lol. Oh thanks I needed that
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rmt1
ABBA did not have Stockholm Syndrome:
No more carefree laughter
Silence ever after
Walking through an empty house, tears in my eyes
Here is where the story ends, this is goodbye
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(this time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do
Mem'ries (mem'ries), good days (good days), bad days (bad days)
They'll be (they'll be), with me (with me) always (always)
In these old familiar rooms children would play
Now there's only emptiness, nothing to say
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
There is nothing we can do
Knowing me, knowing you (ah-haa)
We just have to face it, this time we're through
(this time we're through, this time we're through
This time we're through, we're really through)
Breaking up is never easy, I know but I have to go
(I have to go this time
I have to go, this time I know)
Knowing me, knowing you
It's the best I can do -
paranoia agent
I don't know about Stockholm but I have met elders with the dunning-kruger effect.
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hoser
most definately they do. They often complain about the abuses and then I ask them why do you go and be treated like that? When I tell them that elder so and so is abusing them or the branch is ripping off their congregation they jump to defend their abuser
hoser