by snare&racket 16 Replies latest jw friends
The one singular concept for JWS that they internally hold on to is that well even if this isn't totally the
Truth concerning the end times, its still a better to be sorry and make a mistake that would forfeit their lives.
The prepositioning of fear goes a long way in conformity in high controlling religious cults.
What becomes even more ridicules and unreeling about the present Scientology cult is that it was founded and inspired by a
a science fiction novel.
yes finkelstein, but I believe that comes after...
A boy with a pack of cards can make you forget the laws of nature and everything you have experienced in your life on earth so far. for a moment in time, a simple slight of hand trick of the fingers, can make you suspend EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS TRUE and expose you to woo. The problem is, we all kinda want to believe in woo, it intregues us. This makes us vulnerable.
Once that is done and you are on the hook, the reel you in slowly but with a taught line, then they net you. That net of fear, comfort and ignorance is in itself an overwhelming ilusion, just as a fish could likely hop over the net and out, so a JW can simply leave as the apologists at bethel love to say. In reality the walls seem 100ft high and they have convinced you wolves are waiting outside them, also you will not be simp,y allowed vack in and for your good your family and friends must never 'associate' with you again.....'but you are free to leave.' Once you get the balls to leave, you ignore the nasty and unpleasant thrests snout the other side of the wall.....and..... nothing happens, life is actually great and you realise there wasn't even a wall there. You could have left any time! You were duped!
If that was the sales pitch, there would be no scientologists or JW's and so they use 'the hit'. Interestingly, the JW's are not in amy way nourished by the organisation. they get told instructions on how to live and the rest of it is service OR how to attract new people, they are all self proclsimed amazing salesmen, as if that is a good thing. My best JW mate said in out last conversation how amazing it was that WT trained us to be able to go to a door and make someone think in a completly different way in just a few minutes. My heart sank, right now householders come to mind where I did exactly that. But this was all a sales pitch, it is all about getting 'hits', looking at their house, their car, do they look poor, what will their concerns and worries be. Play on what they don't know over what they do know, pretending that such white lies don't count....."No Mr Jome, we sre not here to convert you!" or "A christian?mthat's greatm it's rare to find believers thst shsre our biew todsy. May I just ask..." or "What a beautiful garden" or "I notice you have a little one, do you find it difficult in these times..."
We didn't really give a sh*t about the garden or the womans kids, we were trying to get 'hits' and we didn't even know it at the time. We did it in unison, using the same lines and techniques the world over. We promised them snake oil.... see your dead kid again, you wont die, you will get your cure, no more pain, your own home and garcen.... Just come along to this local brick building, yes the one without windows, join in, throw some cash in the box and make some more of us... all those things are coming...'soon' (140 years old and still works for the JWs).
Honestly, as you said they think it is a better life AND what's the harm, may as well roll the dice and be a JW. But we all know it is very harmful, very false and also wrong to share with others if we are too cowsrdly to examine it and question it thoroughly ourselves,
Everything you just said about witnessing is what made me stop. Once I saw through the parlor tricks I could not continue.
Just the thought of leaving little bread crumbs of BS out for some poor unsuspecting sod to gobble down as psuedo soulfood left a bad taste in my mouth. It felt dishonest because it is dishonest. I cringe at the thought of it now.
What pain/suffering one hit of woo causes. Great reality topic.
If that was the sales pitch, there would be no Scientology's or JW's and so they use 'the hit'
Point well taken.
There's obviously a devious laid sales pitch being taught and indoctrinated with both cults and probably many more.
The snake oil the WTS uses of course is the bible and their teaching of Christ retuning and what was to come soon,
it helped in attracting people to the literature in the first place as well motivating people to spread the literature eventually
themselves to the general public.
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It was self described as spreading the Gospel Truth written about in the bible, in reality it was the Gospel
of the Watchtower Publishing house and if one were to receive the appreciative rewards one had to be subjectively
subservient and obedient to the men at the controlling top of the organization.
Mark to read later.
You're so right. I can only stand the embarrassment for a moment at how I lived a portion of my life and then I move on, to
more constructive behavior for myself.
Have you seen the show "The Mentalist"? I'm not much of a TV watcher, but my daughter loves this show. I came to appreciate the main character and how he debunks superstitions.
