I have lost count how many times I have heard this!
"I don't care if it's teachings are false, I'd never leave because it's the best way of life"
by 4thgen 43 Replies latest jw friends
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EdenOne
When a JW is trapped into a doctrinal corner, this is the typical reasoning to justify allegiance to the organization.
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Terry
In the above moving puzzle, if you stare at any one dot for several seconds, the other dots will randomly disappear and reappear.
There is a function of the brain which makes things "go away". I choose to think of this function as similar to what happens
to Jehovah's Witnesses when discordant information about the WTS creeps in.
Making the disturbing element vanish maintains the pattern-as-a-whole.
ONCE YOU TAKE COMFORT in things AS THEY ARE, your brain can take an disturbance and make it go away.
Cognitive dissonance is the anti-body mechanism of thought control.
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keyser soze
I think the best response would be "How do you know it's the best?" Most JWs, especially the born-ins, can't honestly make such an assertion, because they've never lived any other way. Even those who converted have sampled very little of what life has to offer.
