JW Leaders Do Intentionally Torture Their Members

by FragrantAddendum 13 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  LongHairGal

  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH:

  The OP certainly has a point and I agree with your post.

  You are especially right that they use those JWs who suffered physically, emotionally or economically as examples to shame other people in the religion. This never swayed me and I don’t think it swayed the smarter older people in the hall. You didn’t see them suffering or doing without!.. Nah, that was for some other fool.

  I remember the stories recounted about what Witnesses went through during WWII. These people were made to sound saintly. There was a lot of talk of being thrown in jail during the great tribulation and having to share your crust of bread! The point to all this as far as I was concerned was they were trying to get people in the congregation accustomed to the idea that they were going to have to suffer and endure things and that they had to be ready to ‘give’.

  There was also an arrogant vibe that I picked up on from mostly older people there (who are gone now). They really did imagine that other people were going sacrifice for them.

  Of course I observed all this but I never really took this to heart that I would ever do any of this.. I was the young person who didn’t pioneer and got knocked for working.
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  Beth Sarim

  The Witnesses WWII stories are dreadful.

  Then when you consider how Rutherford suck-holed Hitler.

  Maybe if Rutherford hadn't brown nosed Hitler,,,Hitler might not have been so hostile to the Witnesses.

  Then how the Borg ingratiated with the U.N. between 1992 & 2001.
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  NotFormer

  Look at how easily they capitulated to government edicts recently. The one that made me reel was when they ceased the door to door work*. You know: that distinctive of theirs, that they are the only ones going door to door with Jehovah's lifesaving message. They dropped a century of dogma at the merest whiff of negative attention from a government.

  * I'm not saying anything one way or the other about whether or not it was prudent to do so. Just that this is a different WT from the one that happily defied governments and sent its members to jail over a perceived point of doctrine.
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  Beth Sarim

  This is because the Borg is a business,,disguised as a religion.