Helping your Loved one correlate WT mind control by exposing OTHEr groups

by Jon Preston 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Jon Preston
    Jon Preston

    Ive been watching "The Following" lately and my wife watched a few episodes with me. She couldnt fathom at first the depth that mind control or "destructive influence" can take you. So in accordance with Hassans "Freedom of Mind" i have decided that exposing other cults to my wife will help me help her to find correlations to the WT and hopefully lead her to the BITE model. I dont know if it will work but atleast if it doesnt i wont be considered an apostate by her. Anyways!

    Has anyone attempted this route? Any success or tils for strategy? Right now im going off of FOM by Hassan and my own knowledge of cults.

    thanks!

    Jon

  • humbled
    humbled

    I discovered by accident how effective this method was while I was an active JDub.

    A youngMormon woman who had been my oldest daughter's best friend (I now that's not supposed to happen) had since married and stayed in touch with our family. She called me and invited me to view at the local LDS meeting place on our local University's campus the annual (? what-ever-it's-called) that the LDS President presents. I thanked her but declined, saying that I thought it would be a good thing for her to read the Bible so that she could be certain that everything she learned lined up--In fact, I said, she should beware of these men that she referred to as "prophets" of her church. They might be shifting doctrines without her knowing it.(lol,<idiot me!)

    She then made this remarkably insightful comment: But the men who guide you are like our leaders. They provide you all with new prophesy, don' they.

    I was quite stricken dumb. She had inadvertantly blind-sided me. I was so certain I was helping line up her thinking.

    Her comments really helped put pressure along the "fault line" where tensions mounted rapidly within a few years until the big quake happened for me.

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    My wife read a book about Mormons which helped her see the correlation.

  • ABibleStudent
    ABibleStudent

    Hi Jon Preston, As long as you only help your wife understand what is BITE control using non-WTBTS organizations and do not make direct comparisons with the WTBTS, you should do well helping your wife to critically think for herself. The easiest group to compare to are the Pharisees and Sadducees using the Bible, because the Bible shows how Jesus Christ felt about them.

    Peace be with you and everyone, who you love,

    Robert

  • Crazyguy
    Crazyguy

    I am going to use his same idea on my family. When an ex jw told me how so many other churches believe they to are the truth or better than others as well as me finding out about how other churches use shunning as a weapon. This really helped me to see this is all about recruiting new members and not wanting anyone to leave. So I am going to share this info when I can to marginalize the JW religion and hopefully my kids will clue in.

  • BU2B
    BU2B

    Thanks for this. This is my current hope in helping my wife think as well. Showing her things on the mormons, amish, scientology etc. I will look into the Following..

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette

    This is one of the most powerful tools in our toolkit. But we nevertheless need to proceed with caution.

  • Jon Preston
    Jon Preston

    I think we are going to watch the following together and im going tonexplain the Bite model and how cults control others.....hopedukly the bit about information control and shunning can open a door....shes already on the ropes i think....we keel missing meetings because we just dont feel like going....shes watching vampire shows and "questionable" movies so im going to oush a bit more.....oh and smoking cigarettes....one a day which i wil hopefully be able to change soon. just gotta find the right button.

  • Frazzled UBM
    Frazzled UBM

    Good luck Jon Preston - it sounds like your wife is heading nt he right direction and will only need a gentle nudge. Fraz

  • A.proclaimer
    A.proclaimer

    Watch this video, I think it would be good start to help some people see things a little differently. It's a young ex-Norman who discusess the BITE model, and there's a lot of ways you can relate it to the JWs. He only makes one mention of the JWs using this method so just skip that part in the beginning. Aside from that, he only talks of Mormans and Moonies.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUsOHsZIiA4

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