Article on Cults/Religion speaks of JWs
by Gerard 3 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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Odrade
Interesting article. Especially this:
"As a writer in the American journal Free Inquiry puts it: 'Either the Jehovah's Witness sect tends to attract an excess of pre-psychotic individuals who may then break down, or else being a Jehovah's Witness is itself a stress that may precipitate psychosis.
I think high-control groups in general, attract a larger percentage of people prone to mental unbalance. When you start really paying attention to "How I got the Truth" stories, there are so many who came from a bad background. I used to think that one never heard stories where someone, with a good life already, accepted the truth because those stories were a little boring--not good PR. Now I'm starting to think that it's because there aren't really all that many out there. If a person already has a good stable family/life, and are sound psychologically, they aren't all that vulnerable to groups like JWs, moonies, scientology.
There was a thread this week on how many were born/raised as JWs. I would be curious to see how many converts came from an unsettled background, and whether you think that made you more susceptible to JWs.
Odrade
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jwsons
Thank you Gerard
jwsons
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rocketman
I esecially like the Newsweek article. I remember reading it when it first came out.