If you had the opportunity to help a person understand the Jehovah's Witness religion, what would you make sure they understood about the "truth"?
If You Were To Give A Head's Up About The JWs---What Would It Be?
by minimus 24 Replies latest jw friends
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Stefanie
I would probably tell them what you bought out the other day.
They are a cult!............RUN...............................
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XQsThaiPoes
Run to us or away from us?
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Stefanie
Run from the cult...........
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JeffT
I'd explain disfellowshipping. It's the whip they use to keep everybody in line.
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mineralogist
Funny thread - just today i've been in a school (15 year olds) to talk about my life as JW. I tried to make sure they understand somehow the sillyness of such teachings and how dangerous this lifestyle could be. As Stefanie said - it's a cult!
One asked me "You've been 15 years running around just to make 2 new members and tell it is ok?" I read them Proverbs 27:11 " Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me. " and all laughed about me been the moron that believed this.
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ColdRedRain
They're very paranoid of outside information that criticizes them. Not a good thing when some of that information shows contradictions in theology.
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FreeFallin
That you can be disfellowshiped for asking questions.
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undercover
A couple of things:
Any group who wants to limit information about itself from its members is usually hiding something. Having doubts, questioning doctrine, questioning leadership, independant research, using the Internet for research is all strongly warned against if not outright condemned. Why would an organization that supposedly has nothing to hide and supposedly follows God's Word as its basis for worship have to do this?
One hundred years of failed predictions. Research their past and their track record for predicting Armageddon and how many times they were wrong and how often they change their viewpoint on major doctrines. I might start with 1914 and the generation that will not pass away. From the 30s to 1995 it was taught and believed that the generation that saw 1914 would not die off. In 1995, that changed and now is no longer believed and that generation has died off without seeing the promises of a new paradise earth.
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XQsThaiPoes
That it is a ANOTHER political party based on world domination ran by clerics.