IbenLyed2

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  Best way to talk to a JW about the Generation Changes

  by wifeofjw in

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  i'd like to get your advice on how to talk with my husband about the generation changes.

  we have started talking about how it a little.

  i would like to show him the changes using the jw publications.

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  Evaluating Raymond Franz

  by greendawn in

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  what do you think of ray(mond) franz?

  i have seen here some people critisise him as not being a really heartfelt opponent of the wts, but my view is that he was quite honest about his expressed motives against the cult.

  with his revelations he gave a lot of momentum to the ex jw movement (the apostate organisation according to the jws) and offered valuable assistance to those seeking to shake off the ideological and social dependance on the oppressive cult.

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  I destroyed @30 jw's today in field service

  by JunkYardDog in

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  2 wt zombies came to my door today.

  and i opened a can of woop a$$ on them.. i did the whole history of wt false prophecies on them and asked them to show me the gospel of 1914?

  they couldn't and i followed them up and down the street proclaiming they were false teachers and couldn't talk their way out of a paper bag with a knowledgeable apostate.

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  IbenLyed2

  Like others have already stated... to each his own. Everyone is at a different place and each one of us would handle it differently.

  However, that being said, I personally would not go this route. I would hope that 40 years from now, I will not have that much bitterness left. The WT$ has already sucked enough time, energy, and emotion out of me.

  Those of us who were in for a long time or raised..err..brainwashed.... from birth realize that a reaction like that from an "apostate" only leaves the JW feeling righteously justified. And then they say to themselves..."That's why the society has such strong counsel to stay away from all "apostate" thinking" This behaviour likely reinforces the "apostate is a boogeyman, more to be feared than Satan himself" mentality that the WT$ likes to foster. At least that's how I know I would have felt about such an encounter 3 years ago. At that time, (when I was still a gung ho JW), an "apostate" would have fit that exact description: a middle-age raving lunatic who was borderline psychotic. Easily dismissed.

  A sublte seed of doubt is likely to go further.

  Just my 2 cents.