Damage Limitation

by KW13 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  KW13

  We know that these days information on just about everything is widely available. One or two clicks, a Google Search and a hole is blown in the Watchtower Society's Cover. I remember once, on the weekend i was staying at my Dad's i was searching for the Watchtower Society website when i found an 'apostate' site. Nearly eight years on, i come to this Site. Maybe the site i visited that day planted a seed, i remember my terror when i realised where i'd ended up, i worried that somehow i'd be discovered for my sin and my mind was racing running over the lies i'd been told - perhaps the apostates could somehow see me?

  The Society uses various tactics to limit Damage to its already near sunken Vessel, if something cannot be defended its taught its members to smear individuals that pose a threat.

  Atheist or Believers we are all Ex-Jehovah's Witnesses - people like us have seen through the clouds of smoke, the corruption and lies and have seen something that we probably didn't want to believe was true and all we've taken is punishment for it. We've been hurt emotionally and we were left to pick-up the pieces.

  So how do we get back at the Society in a constructive manner and 'free peoples minds'?

  I think simply being happy does work, i agree with that but i also believe we need to be vocal. In the confused mind of each and every Jehovah's Witness is a door and behind that door is the dawning realization that the Society are wrong, that they are wrong. It takes guts to admit it.

  Realization is a long and slow process that from the Pro-Witness standpoint is like a virus eating away at us when actually its the death of what was and the beginning of the real you, the person you are supposed to be. Thank God we stuck that out because technically the cleverly engineered lies from the Society are supposed to be fool proof.

  We take a risk by being vocal about what we've discovered i admit, but some of us have seen the benefits of taking that chance. For example an old friend of mine who i am partially responsible for coming into the 'truth' has since left, he and i met properly again only yesterday and its like he never went in the religion. The reasons he left were different from mine so i am happy to know that the only problem he has is the wasted time and he's doing his best to make up for that. His family cannot accept he's happy now he's without the Organization as his prop, afterall he is living with a woman who has children from a previous marriage but honestly i've never seen someone so content with his life.
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  Mary

  So how do we get back at the Society in a constructive manner and 'free peoples minds'?

  Very good post Karl......I think, as a whole, that ex-Witnesses all over the world are doing a good job at exposing the Organization for what it truly is. We've had upteen discussions on here exposing their faulty doctrines (most notably the blood issue and the pedophile issue) and lurkers who are still in can start to read and think for themselves.

  The media is always exposing some Witness who's died due to the blood ban, and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of scumbag elders being charged with statutory rape/molestation, which is then plastered all over the internet as well as TV.

  There are other good sites too: Randy Watters, the new 'Quotes' website as well as a dozen others. Reading the information on these sites can help prepare those who are either still in, or thinking of leaving, when they're questioned as to their faith. We encourage each other, give advice, opinions and suggestions to others who have maybe been cut off from their family and friends at the Hall.

  In reality, the Society is doing a damn good job themselves at exposing their faulty doctrines to the world. I think the best thing we can all do, is to continue on doing what we're doing already.
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  KW13

  It is true that we must be doing something right, otherwise this place and many like it wouldn't exist, i think you made an excellent point about how the Society is a rod for its own back, its own worst enemy and the more it tries to undo this mess the worse it gets because of course there is a trail.
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  WTWizard

  And the worst part is that they created the problem themselves. Instead of listening to criticism, they bash it. They tell us to listen to criticism. And then when they do something blatantly harmful, they cannot take the heat. They also try to hide their past to keep from being embarrassed.

  The only thing that could save them now is to publicly declare that they had been intentionally spreading lies, and then making stupid bans to keep people from finding out the truth. From there, they would need to reconstruct the whole religion, this time keeping an ear out for criticism so that the imperfect men taking the lead can be corrected when they mess up. Ultimately, that would result in a stronger organization. The few that are only trying to derail the whole quest for truth, perhaps to usurp power, could be weeded out because their arguments would be specious at best.

  But, they are not humble enough to take that course. Instead, they cut off the members from reading critical material, whether from apostates or from the public in general. They build up a fear of the Internet. They demonize it to the max, threatening with demon possession and death. But, what happens when someone makes a typo when intending to find the official site and instead lands on an apostate site? They make such an error more serious than it actually is, since if someone saw an apostate site and the religion actually was the truth, it would do little or no harm.