A Mormon manages to awaken from mind control with a little help from Jehovah's Witnesses...

by cedars 45 Replies latest jw friends

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  Dismissing servant

  An interesting parallell. The structure og cults are similar.

  I our swedish XJW community we had a mormon girl who were very active defending mormonism during the autumn last year. We had a lot of debate. There was a case in wich a mormon psychiatrist recruited his patien, a teenage girl, to the mormon church. Her parents reported this to the police and to the medical association. This mormon lady was very ipset that the parents of the youg girl reported this psychiatrist, and calling the mormon church a cult.

  But, yesterday she wrote again on the forum telling us that she had left the mormon church since a while. She started to see similariteis between mormonism and the JW's, especially control and manipulation. She could not believe what she really wrote during the autumn. She seems to feel much happier now, her parets and her friends have told her that she has changed a lot!

  http://hjalpkallan.se/forum/showthread.php?t=12569&page=19
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  nugget

  very interesting I woke up partly by looking at the history of the Mormon faith can work both ways.
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  TD

  Very interesting and well done video.

  A basic similarity between the JW and LDS faiths is simply the esoteric nature of their respective doctrines. It forces individual members to have opinions on and argue for positions that are difficult to defend and above the average person's head.

  Can the average Mormon even begin to explain the presence of a Greek idiom idiosyncratic to only one book of the Bible in the BOM? Even if you assume for the sake of argument that the BOM is what it is claimed to be, the fact that this question comes up at all is still an embarassing anomaly.

  Can the average JW even begin to explain the ambiguous wording of John 1:1? Even if you assume for the sake of argument that JW's are right when it comes to the diety of Christ, the fact that this question comes up at all is still an embarassing anomaly.
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  00DAD

  Cedars,

  Thanks for sharing. Great blog article too, BTW!

  00DAD
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  TD

  Yes, Cedar's blog article is priceless.
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  moshe

  The the book of Mormon reads like a clone of the King James Bible, if you are going to translate something you use the common language of your time period- and as TD pointed out, you don't include older Bible translation errors-

  Every civilization leaves trash behind. Rubbish heaps tell us how ancient peoples lived- Those ancient lost tribes of Israel who according to Joseph Smith came to America in 600BC and established a great empire that lasted until 400AD- except, no artifacts and no trash has been found, no coins that the BOM says they used for money, and native Americans test negative for semitic dna. The Mormons have had about 10 years to deal with the dna results- for the most part, they have chosen to ignore the facts= their Book of Mormon is a work of fiction, not a heavenly revelation. What else do you call that, but a voluntary form of mind control-- and I never got to the Joseph Smith ancient Egyptian scam he pulled on everyone- he claimed to be able to translate hieroglyphics- before anyone else could. The Rosetta stone finally proved that Joseph Smith was a charlatan when it comes to his ancient Egyptian translation.--

  dna-

  http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-07-26-dna-lds_x.htm

  It seems they knew all about metal working-- and maybe they even had a working iron foundry!!- They Mormons just haven't located these coins or that mythical iron works-

  Ether 10:23, ( the Jaredites did) "work in all manner of ore, and they did make gold, and silver, and iron... and they did dig it out of the earth; wherefore they did cast up mighty heaps of earth to get ore of gold, and silver, and iron..

  Iron could have saved the Aztecs from Cortez, except they used obsidian spears and clubs- iron working technology would not have been forgotten- it would have given any native Americans who had iron technology power over all of the Americas- stone, flint and copper can't stand up to iron.