What is the WT tactic if they are in a home where one spouse seems interested but the other spouse is hostile? Do they try and visit when angry spouse isn't around?
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by truthsearcher 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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badboy
POSSIBLY.
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Gill
Yes!
They will tell the 'interested' one that they experiencing persecution because, they, the JWs are the only true religion and Satan the Debil is trying to stop the interested one studying!
Been there, done that, got the T shirt!!!
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95stormfront
Not only possible, but probable. They have no compunction about nosing in a dividing a household under the pretense of spreading their "good news".
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carla
I can tell you first hand! They will encourage the interested one to sneak out of the house without the spouse knowing about it and hiding any communication with jw's from the spouse as well. By then the interested person has lost their free will and mind to the jw's and it's too late. Been there.
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truthsearcher
Is this a policy or tactic that they learn in their training school? Or just something they come up with on their own? I think I have just experienced the tactic and it shakes me up!
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avidbiblereader
Truthseeker, they will hear it from a multitude of locations and people and the underlying scripture used is from Matt where Jesus said he would start a fire on the earth and households would be divided. They feel justified in doing it.
abr
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OUTLAW
Jehovah`s Witness`s have no problem tearing a marrage apart..It`s the right thing to do..The WBT$ says so...OUTLAW
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garybuss
In my experience, the Witness people invited my wife to social things and didn't invite me and often she would go to the social things without telling me in advance. Often she would leave and leave a note taped to the refrigerator. For meetings and service, she skipped the note.
That worked for her until I started going and doing things with my friends WITHOUT HER. I stayed longer and did more things than she did. Twice I left on a week long vacation while she was at a meeting. I went on one vacation and told her, she wasn't invited, it was just for friends. We'd take days long cross country motorcycle touring trips and I belonged to three touring clubs. I had plenty to do without her.
I saw no reason to make being a Witness easy for her and I started a little counter-Witness-cult information service with a dedicated phone line, and a newspaper ad. Her popularity at Kingdom Hall went in the basement.
I really didn't care if I stayed married to her or not. I was sick of being disrespected and I made a decision not to live the rest of my life as a Witness widower. This isn't a dressed rehearsal, this is the real deal and it's my only life. I'm absolutely not willing to live in stress and strife. -
Gill
Good for you, Gary! It really is the only way to do things. You have to play them, and beat them at their own game.
The Witnesses can never win. They can only run off in a strop! And that's all they have to offer, running off with their fingers firmly stuck in their ears, choosing to believe a silly book company's lies.