One sentence...Stuck-up cliquish snobbish,without love,closed-circle,hypocritical private club for the elite.And yes,I am an ex-witness who faded ten months ago.
I suspect this will sound wierd
by buckthesystem 35 Replies latest jw friends
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breeze
myohnseph...
That said it I think....you soooo eloquent!!!
Yep, that covered it....maybe self-righteous could be added...
As Ed McMahon would say that is complete and nothing san be added to that statement....
BREEZE
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nonjwalltheway
The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society has a great way of maintaining its membership. I say this because membership attrition (members leaving) is reduced by scarring the hell out of people by making them believe that they are doomed unless they are Jehovah's Witness and that they strictly follow Watchtower doctrine. What a pathetic religion to guilt people into membership and to guilt them into maintaining attendence. This is not a religion, but a cult and one that should be made illegal. The Witnesses are anti-government and anti-self as having your own identity or thought processes is considered to be "unspiritual". Anything that is not in line with Watchtower doctrine is considered to be evil and "unspiritual".
The amount of control that the Watchtower exerts over the everyday lives of its members is ridiculous. They control how one has sex, what you can read, who you can be friends with and the list goes on. They hierarchy within this religion states that this is done to shield people from the world. The reason they do this is to keep their members from being exposed to people or material that can shed true light on the hypocracy of this so-called faith. If their members have contact with other "Worldly" people they have the opportunity to figure out what this religion is about and that is control. I can see how people who were born into this ridiculous cult go along with it as they know nothing else.
The JW's state that one should not be worldly or a part of this world. Well let's let them in on something. We all live in this world and if God did not want us to be worldly, I don't think we would have been put into this world. The JW's are so concerned about not being worldly and waiting for "This System of Things" to come to an end. How can you be unworldly when we all live in this world. It makes no sense. The sense it does make is for the JW's to swear eternal loyalty to the Watchtower and to have no other purpose in life besides serving it. That is the sense that The Watchtower sees in preaching to its people the sinful nature of being worldy.
My ultimate conclusion is that this religion or "Cult" as I like to call it is not a relgion, but a control system designed to serve itself. Members are persuaded not to have "independent thinking" as independent thinking leads to conflict within the organization. As quoted by the Watchtower, Avoid Independent Thinking. How is such independent thinking manifested? A common way is by questioning the counsel that is provided by God's visible organization." {WT 22}. God gave people a free mind and the ability to make critical decisions and to think for oneself. The Watchtower has decided that the responsibility of critical thinking should not belong to individuals, but to it and they have the nerve to cite biblical references supporting this. This religion was designed with one thought in mind and that is loyalty to The Watchtower without regard for the people it affects. It makes me sick. I hope that this religion is eventually made illegal within the as it has destroyed family relationships, people's image of the world and their image of themselves.
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jurs
Buckthesystem,
The JW religion completely controls every aspect of your life. You sacrifice and give up so much because of the bind trust that you've given the org. Once you wake up and realize that it wasn't Jehovah's org. but a New York based cult. I personally felt robbed of years wasted and devastated by a sudden lack of foundation. Sorry couldn't limit it to 1 sentence!
jurs
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Mum
I, too, endorse the definition so eloquently expressed by MYOHNSEPH.
I would like to add that I believe many JW's are victims (and, yes, I know that the term "victim" is politically incorrect; so use the word "targets" if you prefer) because they are selected on the bases of their general malaise, disappointment, feelings of disenfranchisement or alienation, to be easy to lead into a high control group because they need hope, however ill-founded.
I was a JW for 17 years. As a teenager, I escaped an abusive family for hours at a time by getting involved in JW activities, so, for me at least, there was some useful "purpose" for my early years as a JW. As time went on and adulthood advanced, I realized that I had not become a better person as a result of being a JW and could not believe that God who gave me certain abilities would ask me not to use them for the benefit of myself and others.
buck, welcome to the forum. Objectivity is not easy when one has been through what some of us have with this twisted cult.
Regards,
Sandra
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els
A religion that expects you to accept losing your entire family simply because you don't accept that the religion you grew up in is the truth.