Cancer is one of the worlds biggest killers. Some people discover they have cancer early and they can have it quickly removed and be cured.
Others are not so lucky. Their's is a malignant tumor, and it spreads fast, sometimes killing them within weeks or months.
There are many treatments for most kinds of cancer. Gene therapy and new laser techniques are helping most cancer patients live longer.
But there is one type of cancer that remains, by far, the most undetected, and the most deadly.
And that is the information cancer. Just as cancer cells multiply, information spreads quickly from one person to another.
We'll call it infocancer.
The cause of this virulent form of cancer has been identified as having doubts.
Doubts, which are left unchecked, can quickly cause a normal JW brain to become infected with infocancer. Sometimes, the cancer disappears, as doubts are pushed to the back of ones mind.
In other cases, the cancer returns and the symptoms are worse than the previous attack when unanswered doubts return. This is known as the relapsing/remitting infocancer.
The later stages of this cancer are degeneration of the part of the brain that governs JW thinking. As JW's begin to address the source of their doubts, this part of the brain begins to break down, as intelligent thought replaces mindless obedience.
At this stage, there is no cure. The victim must seek immediate attention to prevent them from becoming overwhelmed by their symptons.
Seriously though, this is no laughing matter - at least for the faithful and discreet slave.
When this board was created 3 years ago, no one had any idea at this time that SilentLambs existed. Look what it has achieved.
There are more active JW's posting than there ever was. And the number of registered users is getting higher all the time.
The number of people who know about the false doctrines and cover ups of child abuse are increasing, as more and more TV doucmentarys are shown, and repeated throughout different parts of the world.
Little is being done to address this. There is virtually no talk in the congregations of this deadly epidemic, which we shall call the silent cancer. The flow of information cannot be stopped. Although there are plenty of talks at the conventions about apostates and the 'voice of strangers', no real info is given as to all these 'half truths' the apostates are supposedly teaching.
How many people who go to the hall wonder if the brother or sister they are sitting next to knows about this site or the 'deep things' of the org?
The Society, although it knows how infectious infocancer is, will not openly address and discuss the problem. They hope it will go away but it won't. Their only 'vaccine' against infocancer is to demonise the Internet and make it seem like people who leave the org are wicked.
Refusing to acknolwegde a major outbreak of infocancer is dangerous - ignoring cancer doesn't stop it from spreading. Pretending you don't have cancer doesn't stop if from spreading.
The epidemic continues....