It is interesting reading amac's posts. Denial, in action.
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In my experience, JW's have extremely well-honed 'public' and 'private' personna.
As 'image' counts so ridiculously much to this group, they MUST keep a squeaky clean public image, at all times, at all costs, in all ways, regarding everything.
This is an untennable burden for most human beings. And their 'humanity' is under constant pressure to 'leak out'.
Never you mind: 'Tattlers to the rescue!'
Yes, JWs live with a constant burden and with a constant threat of tattling.
And so....perhaps this is why....their 'private personna', when it is bad, can be REALLY bad.
I think this is perhaps because they have lost touch with any genuine sense of 'right and wrong'. So the 'other side of the coin' now includes every and any awful thing you've ever heard of and they are now all exacty equal.
Any genuine sense of 'right and wrong' has become so buried under the weight of image and threat of tattling and the burden and duty of superiority and of reporting the human failings of others - (a job that may cost others to lose EVERYTHING).
They are now SO out of touch that they can actually stand up in front of the world and say and believe something so ridiculous as the two witness policy - that child sex victims need to have two witnesses to the crime before they can even consider it.
I used to think JWs were more honest.
And I used to think I was the only one with two sides.
No longer.
