The silent cancer in the organization (page 2)

Flowerpetal

The problem with us humans is that we are going to always be infected with some kind of mind virus. (truthseeker calls it cancer but actually it s virus). If it's not areligious virus, it will be something else. I read Richard Brodie's book several years ago about mind viruses. We can't get rid of all mind viruses because then we wouldn't have anything to think about, but we can choose which ones we'll allow to infect us. Here is the link to his site: http://www.memecentral.com

Perry

but we can choose which ones we'll allow to infect us.

Well said.

zen nudist

Sheperds are predators who fool sheep into a false sense of security if they can... the sheep do not wake up to the fact that they are being fleeced and eventually lead to the slaughter. There is a cancer in the mind of JWs, it is a mental virus which makes them see reality as flawed by an unseen ideal fantasy which defies logic and reason as superior.

JWs are time and again presented with the UBER JW who always goes out in field service, never doubts the word of the society which he studies in every spare moment and meditates on even in dreams... and raises his family with policestate efficiency and unspoke threats of the back room meeting for failure to comply.... this ideal JW is presented as a comparison so that real JWs can feel guilt and shame and rejection of their own real life.

Flowerpetal

Welcome Zen!

minimus

I enjoyed your post.......Remember, for most of those that "came into the truth" without being born into the religion, what got you in was a doubt, a fear, a major issue in your life. People start to "search" for reasons, answers, to their questions. "Why did my baby have to die?", "Is there REALLY a god who cares?", "Is this all there is to life?".......The same reasons people come into the organization is the same reason why they leave it.

Perry

JWs are time and again presented with the UBER JW who always goes out in field service, never doubts the word of the society which he studies in every spare moment and meditates on even in dreams... and raises his family with policestate efficiency and unspoke threats of the back room meeting for failure to comply.

Welcome aboard Zen. Your comment above bears the unmistakable stamp of someone raised in the truth.

justhuman

Great post

Personally I believe that time is running against the Org. I have see many JW's that they start to question many doctrines of the WT. In few years WT it will be a religion of old age people. The young ones are leaving for many reasons, but since the Org it is running by a handfull old men that they cannot realize what is really happening in the world. Eventually the will just like any other religion.

But there is the possibility for new markets to sell their faith. We have China a very big market indeed, plus Chineese people don't know anything about cults and how they work. In China there wasn't any democracy and freedom of thought like in Western countries people need to be quided and most of all they don't know Christianity.

But we have also India, and Muslim countries that JW's don't preach. So the World Wide Market can still produce many millions JW's!!!

wannaexit

Well said!

Most Jw do know that there is something rotten, but they can't put their finger on it.

Through the years there were many things that bothered me and things that did not make sense. I also had many doubts but always put them aside. After all "our mother organization alway knew best", so why worry about them.

But there comes a time when this rationale does not work anymore and the doubts resurface with a vengence especially if they touch aspects of our own lives. Putting doubts aside does not work any longer and we need answers and we want answers.

Thank God for the internet and sites such as this that have helped so many people work their way out of the cancer infected atmosphere.

eisenstein

Excellent post Truthseeker,

SILENCE = DEATH

welcome zen,

eisenstein

zen nudist

** Welcome aboard Zen. Your comment above bears the unmistakable stamp of someone raised in the truth.

Actually, no, I was raised a Catholic and jumped that ship at age 12. I saw no relationship to reality there. I met JWs at age 14 and studied for 5 years mostly because I really had no desire to join any religion.

I started attending meetings at age 18 regularly and was hooked. I got baptized at 19 in 1980. I studied a lot of JW materials going back to the beginnings... the Ampere cong. of JWs in E orange NJ had a set of volume of the WatchTower which were bound from 1879 to 1914. I also got the 6 volume set of STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES from the Dawn Bible students. I found old Judge Rutherford books and many others... I was skeptical about a lot of things JWs wrote about themselves in those books-- I always thought it was silly to see JW conventions as fulfillments of revelation prophecies, but I could forgive such things because I was in not position to know any better... but I was pretty sure they were way off the mark on those things. I always kept in mind that they often said they were not inspired even though I knew better than to say so outloud (^_^)

I have been part of three quick built kingdom hall projects and have first hand witnessed the power of the BORG collective in action... which according to the book TRUE BELIEVERS [Fromm] is the main power of all group organizations.

The silent cancer in the organization

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