some time ago, i wrote an extensive article on shunning and published it on my website.
since that website had views on doctrinal matters that no longer reflect my current stand, i took the website down.
however, my views on this matter are still current, and for the benefit of everyone here, i'm going to post the article here.
JD: You cannot prove shunning is ... wrong.
That is simply not true.
Anything that needlessly hurts people is wrong. Institutionalized shunning as practiced by cults, including JWs, injures both the target and everyone that shuns them.
There is abundant evidence for this.
hi people,.
i want as much data as possible on the effect of the internet on the time captured by the cult.. please answer the three following questions about yourself or about someone you know (for example, if your parents or grandparents were jw's and left).
1) were you raised as a jw, or did you convert?.
1) no
2) 1984
3) 2009
25 years
absolutely brilliant social experiment.
enjoy.. ....
Brilliant, abso-fucking-lutely brilliant!
I bet that'd fool most dubs.
...with a sister.
she says she knows an elder that can prove me wrong in everything i say about the organization.
i bet her that he will not be able to answer my questions and if he does, that he will tell me to have faith.
Ask her if she knows which prominent elder said this:
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Here is a link to the declaration:
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Look at Items #8 & 9 on page 2.
...with a sister.
she says she knows an elder that can prove me wrong in everything i say about the organization.
i bet her that he will not be able to answer my questions and if he does, that he will tell me to have faith.
it would eliminate drive by's (gangs).
bank robbery.
( handing the bank teller a note, this is stick up without a gun).
The world was a more violent place before guns existed.
There needs to be more fundamental changes in society to continue the overall trend of decreased violence in the last few hundred years.
Steven Pinker wrote about the possible reasons for this in his seminal work, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has Declined.
delete if already posted.. .
.. re: 2016 convention invitations .
.. re: 2016 conventionslocal needs item .
Hmmm, I'm surprised they are going back to the IBSA designation.
Curious.
does anyone know why the congregations are urged to use only recommended hotels for a$$mbies?
DOC: WT uses these comp rooms for COs/DOs and Bethel guests.
And yet, Jesus said, “Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head.” - Matthew 8:20
i would like to see a unified effort from those that have defected.
certainly there are exceptional, very legitimate, detailed experiences from a few.
what about the regulars that chose to leave?
WR: I would like to come up with ... a well formed letter of beliefs and concepts that can be very openly sent to EVERYONE.
And the good news of what the WTBTS really is will be mailed to all then inhabited earth, and then the end will come, soon, ... very, very soon. - Matthew 24:14 (nRNWT 2.0)
And what will you call YOUR religion?
