Terry wrote:
But, throw in the black and white thinking, finger pointing, demons and threats and it unsettles even the nicest people and creates anger, fear and murder.
When something.....anything...makes you look at most of mankind as "other" than what you are....in fact, Evil or Enemy....that is just plain SICK.
There is a fine line between decent people meeting together to praise what is beautiful and a cult of world haters who insist only they themselves are RIGHT.
You are so correct. I just had a conversation with the only female cousin who was not a jw, she has since decided to become one at the age of 69. The rest of her family have been jws since childhood. She informed me that I would not be welcomed at her home any longer unless I returned to the "truth" which she said I knew was the "truth." She told me that I knew that everything written in the WT was correct information directly from Jehovah because those in Bethel were not smart enough to know all that was printed in the wt. She actually did not know about the FDS and who the borg claims they are or about the GB or the teaching about who has a mediator and who doesn't. Yet, she asserted that they had the "truth" and were the only ones who did. I gave her my reasons for having left and left her with information to look up (conti case + other things). She is recovering from a heart attack so I did not want to agitate her any more than she already was agitating herself. Another one bites the dust! So I am now left with only four brothers, one male cousin (her brother) and one nephew, who do not shun me. I am sad about it, but OH Well, I will survive, with a little help from my friends!