by minimus 83 Replies latest jw friends
Arn't all Christains sheep like people? Didn't Christ call his people sheep? What do sheep do well, follow a leader. You can't be a goat and be a JW. If you didn't follow the "faithful and discrete slave" and give your mind over to them, you would be DF'd.
We weren't weak, just tricked for a while.
Ken P.
Little1----Don't you think fear can be weakness?
mini-
Yes, maybe fear is a weakness, but I think it's not a moral weakness, but a character defect.
Splitting hairs, perhaps, but "weakness" seems more derogotory.
l1
Re: "Weak People Become Jehovah's Witnesses"
yes the weak & Doeheads too.
Dismembered
I really wasn't even thinking about "moral" weakness.
I think many people considered "weak" can be attracted to the WTS, but not all people who are witnesses are weak.
Some are stubbern. Some like the power. Others think they are better than others in that they belong to the witness organization.
Good Question
My opinion is yes. I do feel they recruit "weak" people. Whether weak spiritually, or emotionally.
What chance do they have of getting a well-grounded, religiously strong person involved? Nil.
I do not consider weakness a fault. It is a human condition and as such, Everyone has a moment or time in their lives that they are vulnerable, needy, and weak.
The fact is, the wtbts has spent many years through trial and error assessing the most profitable way to "advertise" and take advantage of this human condition.
Why do they not target church parking lots on Sunday mornings with this "life saving good news"?
Why not phone pastors, community leaders, heads of households, movie cinemas, bowling alleys, and other places that whole families hang out at?
No, They target the lonely, the hurting, the depressed. They target the sole householder (usually a housewife) home alone daily. They scour the death notices prowling the widows (is there a more vulnerable person)?
They look for crying, lonely mourners at graveyards on Veterans Day.
They look for the lonely at Christmas to take advantage of those who have no extended family to bond with.
They use cohersive emotional tradition to indoctrinate the 13 year olds for baptism exhibitions.
They tell single mothers they have been abused and neglected, and cannot be whole or good without complete devotion to the regiment of the caring flock (also very vulnerable people).
In essence, they intentionally target the weak, the needing, the hurt, the lossed. But only of course if the prospect of conversion and the potential for salesmanship exists.
They have no need to save the hopeless, the hungry, the homeless, the un-ambitious.
This board represents (I feel) many people who were duped and taken advantage of simply for the fact that they were targeted at a time of weakness in their lives. That makes the tower, over time, seem like a savior. And that makes people want to repay them (selling mags) for being the great hope....
Think about a typical presentation we might have used from the past? Do they not often either point to problems on this earth that can scare humans when they look into the future for our children's generations? and do they not point out a hope for the future in perfection/perfect conditions? Let's face it, they hit them where yes, as mentioned, they are volnerable. Now not a JW, I can look around the world and not know what the conditions we see around us will lead for our futures. That is a scary thing. But if you are seeing this and then someone tells you they have answers and said in a very 'charismic way", of course you will listen..
even if you are strong..
They don't tell you all the sh#@ you will have to deal with when they first talk to you. Instead information is given slowly in a subtle way so many just accept it not realizing how they have been manipulated..
and for those of us who grew up in it.. well.. we were brainwashed since childhood.. even intelligent strong people when forced in brainwash conditions can sircome. (sp?)
I think the word should be gullible.
Not weak.
neyank
Weak is not a bad word....
The fault lies with those who take advantage of someones weakness,
and not with the individual....IMHO
Weakness is a a human condition (at times)
There is no way to eliminate that....What we must do is allow ourselves to be weak and accept it as ok, but not allow that condition to be abused.
The wtbts tells people that the situation is black and white. Right or wrong. Victim or abuser. (thus buzz words such as wordly, apostate, true, true christians,etc).
They leave out the posibility of human goodness, and other individuals, or groups that can help. In fact, they villify others as potential areas of help...They make themselves out to be the sole source of proper care and comfort...which we all know is a joke.
Are you hungry, homeless, lonely? Only we can help, in fact, everyone else are evil, wicked, wrong, misdirected, and without the divine influence!
Utter BS.....And any living, breathing, thinking person realizes the ineptness of such drivel in due time...
The thing with human weakness is, it is only temporary! It is a result of trauma. It is not a permanant condition!
Thus, so many end up feeling better about themselves, or their situations, and no longer need the support/influence/domination of the borg.
