i have been watching a series on sunday evenings at 8pm about some amish teens who went over to the uk for a month to mix with various teenagers with different backgrounds , it was so moving to see a girl of about 18 who had never even seen the ocean playing in the waves like a small child , she had a great time . she was later talking of her strict up bringing which made the jws seem quite tame ! and talked of the womens role in the religion and education was not allowed and said those words "there are some things they just dont want us to know about " why dont alarm bells ring when people hear that kind of thing ? i know my alarm bells rang at an assembly when we were told not to go on websites like this one ! because theywould have no members left if they allowed people to get educated .
"there are things they just dont want us to know about " amish girl speaking
by looloo 2 Replies latest jw experiences
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ziddina
"and talked of the womens role in the religion and education was not allowed and said those words "there are some things they just dont want us to know about " ....."
Hoo, yeah, that's the main reason the Gov.Bod slyly discourages college - without ever coming straight out and actually SAYING that they are against college... Which is DAMN dishonest, at its core...
Yes, there are cults that are far more destructive - "newsworthy", to put it in a much more cynical way - than the JWs... Still, when one figures in the death toll from refusal of blood transfusions, I think that the WTBTS has killed FAR MORE PEOPLE than Jim Jones or David Koresh - probably more than that COMBINED death toll, many times over...
Since they are now allowing some forms of blood, I'd look back at their historical "body count" on that issue, to get the REAL impact of how many people they've killed... Oh, and don't forget their ban on organ transplants... And their early ban against receiving innoculations to protect against influenza, polio, and so on...
Though JWs may appear more 'moderate' and mainstream than the Amish, I would rather put it this way - that the WTBTS is much more sly and devious in putting forth restrictive dogma that is strikingly similar to the Amish, the Hutterites, and other such fundamentalist groups. Different mask, same old underlying issue of maintaining rigid control over the 'converts' and children...
Zid
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looloo
good point zid , i thought she was very similar to a young woman i knew in jw land with dissapproving looks at the other teenagers at times but also feeling sorry about them going to hell (dying at armageddon in jw land ) i felt like she had potential at times to escape her beliefs from the things she said but could not imagine her being able to survive in the real world , very sad and the similarities between amish and jws was amazing in fact if i had to choose the religion that really lived apart from the world jws would not get a look in !