Hey, Brooklyn, Don't Start What You Can't Finish!

by Englishman 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  Englishman

  It's strange how life has a tendency to balance things out, to ultimately repay us for both our bad deeds and our good deeds.

  How ironic it is that the WTBTS's policy on shunning has now become a major force that actually unites searchers for justice throughout the world! What a smack in the teeth to this unilateral org, they themselves through their appalling treatment of ex's, have finished up simply pushing so called apostates into each others arms!

  Would sites such as this exist if the WTBTS rescinded their belief in shunning? I doubt that they would be nearly so popular, posters would not feel so driven to seek each other out so as to express their outrage at this disgusting and unscriptural treatment of fellow humans. The WTBTS has brought this `persecution` upon itself.

  This is what You Know has to say: "Gradually, though, apostates have left off the idea of "reforming" the Wt and have come to more resemble a torch-carrying. pitchfork-weilding. Frankenstein mob storming the Watchtower castle."

  You're spot-on the money, YK, thats exactly what is happening. The moral of the story is this, all you so called witnesses of the most high God,DONT START WHAT YOU CANT FINISH!

  Englishman.

  ..... fanaticism masquerading beneath a cloak of reasoned logic.
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  Cautious

  How right you are Englishman

  Like any dictatorship, or totalitarian regieme, the problems within are many, but below the surface. Once the victims of their tactics to keep them in break free, they are emotionally shaken, but have become strengthened as well by their efforts. Like refugees, ex's do find comfort in a group who understand what they have been through. And it also encourages people like Outnfree to go forth and expose.
  Sorry, its late and I'm not expressing this very well - but I had to post in to agree with you.

  Cautious
  Just another WTS refugee
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  You Know

  Yeah, it's too bad that your neighbor broke your rake, you could have added that to your formidable arsenal of garden tools and sticks to rage agaisnt the castle! LOL / You Know
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  joelbear

  Englishman,

  As you know, the shunning issue is the one where we both agree the most strongly.

  Shunning is inhumane.

  I don't care if the Watchtower Society is destroyed or not. I only hope to help people avoid being part of it. Thankfully You Know helps us out.

  hugs

  Joel
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  esther

  Englishman, you ask

  Would sites such as this exist if the WTBTS rescinded their belief in shunning?

  While i agree with you that the shunning policy is a major uniting factor, I think they might still exist.

  Some examples of reasons that such sites could be needed are:
  The WTS changes policy, and pretends they have not done so.
  The blood issue, causing unnecessary deaths, is enforced, although the society says it is a conscience matter.
  They constantly harass the JWs to do more in 'placing literature', bible study work, meeting attendance and meeting preparation.

  esther
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  trevor

  You Know,

  A rake is of little use in dealing with the muck that comes out of the Watchtower HQ. A large shovel is by far the best tool and Englishman knows how to use his.

  Get out there and pioneer - You Know you are wasting too much time on this site and lives could be lost because of your neglect.
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  slipnslidemaster

  A shovel and big boots...

  Slipnslidemaster: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  - Albert Einstein