Another Danger for JWs and the Internet

frankiespeakin

One thing that carries a real serious threat to the WT is the fact that most JWs in developed countries have email addresses.

You know how some send out general emails to all their freinds and when you get the email it has "all" the address on the top because the person sent that particular message to everyone all at once to save time. Think how dangereous that is to the WT, because when someone get to know the truth about the WT and becomes apostate they have all these email addresses that they can send information to to deprogram other JWs. This can really snowball in time.

XQsThaiPoes

WHat I don't get about the wts is the blatant double standards. It totally boogles the mind. THese are not normal double standards either. Where the us vs them prevail. THese are twisted and sinister.

Bethlites are wired to the teeth and check hotmail every few hours. Bethel had its own intranet. The wts has 3 websites. It is funny to be with them and have them ask "does anyone have internet?" Then some JW will step out and say "oh no! I never would get the internet you know what the society says". Then the bethelite goes "Oh, cuz I wanted to check my email real quick."

After a few pettitions to the wts they constantly say they do nottrack apostates nor their sites, and they only refer you to a KM about how to surf safely which has cookie cutter 11 o'clock news advice. Most of the article is how to avoid porn.

How can the theological nexus of JWdom embrace the internet yet JWs be "banned" from the internet at the same time? It is like the blood issue. How can you abstain from blood and eat unbled meat, and allow fractions?

redskymedic

Sometimes I wonder if it's possible for them to be any more contradictory. Just confirms my belief that they are all a bunch of loonies!

heathen

I think it really sick that they have the control to tell grown people not to view anything unrelated to the WTBTS official site . Sure there are all kinds of danger in the world of the web but the danger is everywhere especially if you are going to have a public ministerial service that involves face to face discussions with every sort of person in the world . I actually think the web is safer .

Lostreality

everything is about control.

next thing you know they arent going to be allowed to listen to the radio!

oh wait....

Gill

I believe the net is the biggest threat to JW thinking. We had been out of the Org. for a few years but had still not managed to shake the thinking. We had only had the net for about a year and my mother said to me to make sure that I never read any of those sites on JWs.

First thing I did when I got home was to start reading those dreaded sites...Lo and behold mine and my families intellectual freedom really began. Wow! I think it would be really difficult to leave the JWs completely without that kind of indepth knowledge.

candidlynuts

I felt the wtbs was out of control when they said at a service meeting not to be watching the news or reading newspapers.. this was back in the late 90s.

the web is something people can get onto in their own homes , privately and yes reading about the wtbs online is very enlightening.