The org. deliberately developed an air of tension and fearful expectation of the "unknown", the persecution, as a control technique. It's called seige mentality. When your attention is directed to "enemies" outside of your special group you will protectively draw closer to like minded people around you. Then the org. hits you with the news that your REAL enemies are within the congregation and guess what? you become paranoid, you become even more suceptable to fear tactics, and because you don't know WHAT to believe you just begin to surrender your mind to the org.
It's so "big brother", scary and chilling really.( I remember that talk too, Gopher) That choice bit of scuttlebutt was dead right on I came to find out. The only treacherous dealings I ever saw came from within the congregation. Vicious sisters with nothing to do tore the lives of innocent people apart with gossip and slander and false accusations. The "world" couldn't care less about the jw,s until a child needs a transfusion. In totalitarian countries all kinds of religious groups are banned and persecuted as has been mentioned, but the jw's only focus on themselves in that blinkered, psychotic martyr complex so dear to their hearts.
Are JWs really persecuted?
by gringojj 23 Replies latest jw friends
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zulukai
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jaffacake
Absolutely! By their Governing Body and those carrying out its orders.
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BrendaCloutier
Yes, they have a persecution complex. They take it out on their members!
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greendawn
In the meanwhile they made lots of martyrs out of broken families and people shunned by friends and family and getting severe depression, at times I get this idea that they well deserve any persecution they suffer. It would have saved a lot of heartache if Rutherford had been shot by the state during the war, for treason.