Thanks ......Notoneoftheboys excellent post
Can someone explain to me ......
by notoneoftheboys 14 Replies latest jw experiences
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I really don't know. I was born and raised a JW. When I was more or less goaded into getting baptized at 16, I knew all of these things. I had seen it. I knew the score. From my perspective, I don't get it why people didn't know this stuff. But that's me. Maybe we had more disfellowshppings and I saw it first hand. Plus my dad was an elder. I saw him have to stay after meetings to talk to people. And go visit them on weekends, etc.
Yes, the 80's and televangelism. Everything old becomes OK. I remember when disco was big. Oh, they rallied against it. If I recall, they likened it to tribal mating dances and that the beat was subliminal to causing one to want to have sex. Or something to that effect. Yet nowadays they play disco at JW weddings and even the elders dance to it. I'm too young to have seen the 50's, but I'll bet the same things were said about rock and roll. Things some JWs revere now.
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Saintbertholdt
Well Notoneoftheboys,
I am sorry no-one told you. You gotta read the fine print with these big corporations hey. They make their contracts air tight and if you breach you have to pay the piper. Unfortunately in the information age the Satanic Internet is educating people before they sign so...today its vitally important to get children from as young as ten years old (or sometimes even younger) baptized as soon as possible. This is because:
1. There's less chance that someone might tell the prospective candidate of the possible negative aspects of their decision. Who wants to spoil a young child's fairy tale?
2. The prospective candidate e.g. child would most probably not even have the ability to understand the full implications of their decision and
3. Such a young candidate would probably not possess the mental faculties to ask deep probing questions about the implications of their life decision.
But its all good. Lock them into the system while they're young.
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The Marvster
@ Saintbertholdt
your first point got me thinking about the whole DFing thing. I mean, the only time I ever remember hearing anything about the negative consequences of getting DF'd was through the extremely edited wt publications, phrases like, 'I missed my family', 'life was awful out there' etc etc... the wt never really focused on just how it really is. AND, the reinstated never seemed to talk about this stuff openly.
Are they even allowed to talk about their experiences? is this just another method of 'information control'?
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berrygerry
Thread should be a sticky.