ok, so i misinterpreted this author's other article, but this one really does go way beyond.
it's "jehovah witness murder fetish (a psychological model)".
i don't think there's anyway that i am misunderstanding this one - he's saying that the watchtower is to blame!.
LeahJasmine,
Before you get totally sucked into the organization I strongly suggest you do some research on cults. You also have to know that every cult member will deny that they are in a cult, simpy because they don't know it. They will bring up reasons why they are not a cult. However, you should do some objective research on your own. This would be a good place to start: www.howcultswork.com
i recently heard about a congregation that was "diabanded".
the publishers were reassigned to other congregations.
is this happening elsewhere or just a local thing?
Yeah, 6 years ago our congregation was closed down because there was constant infighting in the Body of Elders, and it wasn't that big anyway. Every tuesday night after the regular meeting there was an Elder meeting. One time, not long before the cong. was closed down we stayed pretty long after the meeting was over, my parents were talking to someone and I was bored. While I was standing there I looked through the window into the room where the Elders were meeting, and I could see that they were in a pretty heated argument over something. Then suddenly the PO, angry, makes a run for the door, but before he reached it one of the Elders rather violently threw his arm around the PO's neck and pulled him back into the room. I couldn't believe what I'd just seen. It wasn't too long before the CO visited and disbanded the congregation immediately. And thus we went from 4 to 3 congregations.
when you take the opportunity to help a dub and show them flaws in the religion - hoping that maybe you can free them, what is your motive?.
i find that although my main motive (i think) is to free them for their sake, the thought of having an ex-jw i can talk to and would understand me that way, would help a lot..... do you do it for those two reasons alone?
i do it for the main reason but the second often crosses my mind..
I'd also be very interested in eye-opening techniques and documents. I suck at discussions off the top of my head, I forget all the things I should bring up and need to much time to formulate my thoughts in words. Only after it's over I think of all the things I should have said. And right now I'm in that very short time window in which I can discuss this with my family. I've recently announced that I no longer believe in the WTS, and now they're trying to convince me that I'm wrong. This might be the only shot I have at trying to open their eyes. If I had some documents to show them that the WTS is not who they make out to be, my family may start to ask questions themselves. And even if they don't, they should at least understand me better.
a lot of people in the states have their service meeting on tuesday and i'm wondering what was the announcement????
i couldn't wait to check the board when i got in to work this morning.
c'mon somebody spill the beans.
Just out of curiousity, how reliable is this information that there's gonna be an announcement at all?
it seems like the witnesses are going to be told that they they now can take blood---at least some of it!
i asked my mom a few minutes ago if she would take blood fractions and she said "no!".
i gave her a head's up on what to expect from the new km.
It's not that hard to explain from a neutral point of view. Obviously the GB has realized there is no biblical foundation for the blood policy, but after all the fuss they made about it, all the people that have died over it, the lawsuits, the justifications etc. etc. They simply CAN not admit they were wrong on this even though they'd probably want to. I hope that one of the current GB members becomes an "apostate" sometime, I'd love to read about the heated debates that were going on behind closed doors about the blood issue. Now that we're talking about it anyway, there's one small argument in support of the blood doctrine I can't yet answer to my complete statisfaction. God already said to Noah that he wasn't allowed to eat blood, and as you all know that was before the Mosaic Law. So, even though the Mosaic Law is no longer functional, there's still one text that can be used as an excuse to support the blood doctrine....?
just wondering what it was that started you to doubt that jws had the truth??
was it doctrine?
was it people?
The simple fact that they so strongly discourage reading ex-JW literature. To me they made themselves look very suspicious that way. It always bothered me even when I still believed it was The Truth.
i just finished talking to my uncle for the first tim in quite a while.
he's a long time elder and in charge of setting up all of the local circuit assys.
and partially in charge of da., so he knows a lot of bro's.
Unless I'm very much mistaken that letter was sent only to the branch offices, not to the congregations. So it's probable that he never heard of it before.
