Dave,
Granted the site at first glance looks like a JW site, but
Yeah ……….
but by just a little use of basic reading skills and the ability to put two and two together someone could quickly figure out what it's all about.
Then there isn’t much of a reason for not callin’ it what it actually is, is there? … a Discussion Forum for ex-JWs to talk about their former religion.
I'm sure you are more than familiar of this technique, you have used it yourself many times.
That’s not true.
On a daily basis JW's knock on peoples doors stating their intention is for people to just simply study "their own" bible.
I’ve never once known that to be the case. I’ve never been out in the service going door to door without having a Bible study aid of one sort or another to offer the householder. If the person was favorable to a Bible study, the particular study aid was acknowledged up front. There was no deception attached to it whatsoever.
I had such a presentation given to me a few weeks ago and listened to the same programed response I once use many years ago. In reality the purpose is to get people to have a bible study using creatively worded study aids so that the house holder will at some time become a JW. If you deny that than you are simply not being honest with yourself.
Well of course the object is to help the householder to become a JW … we’re obviously not there to teach them the art of sitting in a pew at the local Baptist Church, doing essentially nothing.
The JW's realize that if they stated up front that they believed that the house holder was going to die along with their children unless they become a JW they would get anywhere at all. The very first introduction to the religion for most people is based on deceptive word manipulation.
That’s not the least bit true. Jehovah’s Witnesses have never been selective with regards to which Watchtower or Awake magazine that they place with the public. Many, many publications that have contained the very thing you bring up has gone into the publics hands. There’s nothing secretive about those issues at all.
Simon is just using the same technique of specific word and thought manipulation to entice an interest and then later explain the real intention, that's it.
As I’ve demonstrated, that’s not true.
If you consider it deceptive then maybe you should look at what you say and what you really mean the next time you begin your presentation out in service.
Presently, and as a matter of fact for quite some time now, I am not engaging in the “service”. However, if I were so engaged there would be no necessity for any changes in “what I say and what I really mean”.
got me out of the JW religion
Other than justifying deception, into what?
Yadirf,
who still says that Simon is deserving of 30 lashes.