So something has been bothering me for a few days and I figured I’d put it out there and see what you guys thought. There are admittedly a lot of things that the society has done wrong and their doctrines have endangered many of the witnesses and have caused others heaps of pain, I am sympathetic to the feelings of those who have been DFed and understand the concern over the blood doctrine and I especially understand the outrage over the way they deal with accusations of sexual molestation, I guess we can all agree that the Society isn’t the innocent religious organization that they claim to be.
Before I continue, I guess I’ll have to come clean with you guys, I don’t think that the Society is 100% evil, nor do I think that it’s members are all uneducated idiots who have to resort to being window washers or maintenance men and women, I don’t think all elders are hypocritical men and I would never presume to try and get anyone out of the organization. I don’t think I have any right to tell anyone how to live their lives. I know I could never be happy as a witness, but I know that there are many others that find peace within the JW lifestyle and who are perfectly content with who they are and what they believe. I try to afford them the same respect and courtesy that I expect people to give me.
During the last week I happened upon a thread that had some pretty strong accusations against the Watchtower, there was a conference call where someone claimed to have been used in Satanic rituals at bethel and I think that’s when I realized how ridiculous and irresponsible some of the things that are posted here are. To make such outlandish claims does nothing other than tarnish the reputations of ex-JW’s, answer this honestly guys, if you were an active witness what would you have thought and done when you read that? Does it bother anyone else that there might be people really searching for information and instead of finding it they run into that kind of garbage?
It is far too easy to make outlandish accusations nowadays, we live in a society where it’s easy and even acceptable to say hurtful things about people and get away with it, we are living in a TMZ Perez Hilton type of world, and it is absolutely disgusting.
It is one thing to say “Oh yeah in my hall we had this one elder and he was kinda smelly” it is a completely different thing to accuse people of child molestation, of physical and mental abuse and even of forcing people to join in satanic rituals. I don’t understand why we are so eager to accept some of the things people say on this forum as if they were true. Let me remind you all of our friends Linda and Trevor, did we not learn something from that? Damn it people, some of you sent gifts to a person that never existed, did that not teach us a lesson? I think that for some the hatred and anger has managed to slowly replace common sense.
It think that as a community we have to be more responsible about the things we say and just as people we have to do our best to be decent to others. Can you imagine how you would feel if it was your father, brother or husband who was accused on a message board of doinng these horrible things? I think it would behoove everyone if we made sure that we could back up the statements that we made, because I for one certainly don’t understand why some of the posters here fail to see that they could be sued for slander and libel due to some of the things they say. I can assure you that if it were me who was being accused of certain things I’d sue the hell out of the person who was irresponsible and malicious enough to mess with my reputation.
Okay, I’m done. Thoughts anyone?