One simple example where almost all JWs lie:
Walk up to any JW on the street, someone out in service that you don't know, and ask them:
"Does your religon shun former members?"
They ALWAYS lie and say "no". Often times they really get into it with shocked faces... as in 'where on earth would you get such an idea?!'
When pressed, they might say it is a 'conscience decision'...another lie, or that they didn't really understand your question..another lie.
One simple example where the Org lied:
The Org said they became an NGO 'to use the UN library.' That is a straight up 100% deliberate LIE. ( also blantant hypocracy, but that's a different topic )
Simple examples of thought control techniques used by the org:
see this site: http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/fear-cult-mind-control.php
Also, a fun excersize is to make a list of all the JW words and their defintions and then to 'translate' a book like The Live Forever book into regular English instead of JW language.. The use of loaded language becomes pretty clear when you do that.
for example, we all know
'take in life-giving Bible knowlege' = read WT publications;
'satan's world' = Non-JW world;
"God's laws" = JW rules, and so on.
example of some page 217 and 218 of Live Forever book 'translated' out of loaded language (that is set up in earlier chapters of the book) and into regular English:
paragraph 1: You must fight the influence of the non-JW world. You must fight your thoughts. Your thoughts are bad.
paragraph 3: You know the JW promise. You believe the JW promise. You want the JW promise. Unfortunatly you have strong thoughts of non-jw things.
paragraph 4: You can control your thoughts, if you really want to. Only you can control your thoughts. You need to read the WT publications. The WT publications must go deeper than your head. The WT publications must sink into your heart. You must have deep feelings about what you read in the WT publications so that you will want to do act on what they say.
paragraph 5: How to learn to like JW rules: 1)meditate about JW rules. 2) think deeply about JW rules 3) think of bad things happening if you don't follow JW rules, like getting venereal disease and not being able to ever have children 4) think of disobedence to JW rules causing sadness, trouble, pain, emotional breakdown and suffering..
and so on...
Simple example of cruelty ( cruelty 1. deliberate infliction of pain or suffering):
shunning, expecially of family members.
I begged my sister to let me take her new baby over to see our mother. "Can't she at least meet her grandson?" I asked. Nope, she said. "If I allow that how will Mom learn and how will I be standing firm? I will not compromise my faith in Jehovah." She almost seemed happy about what she was doing, proud. Made me want to throw up. That was I guess about a decade ago. Our mother still does not know her grandchildren and has not spoken directly to my sister in all that time.
I don't think you can imagine the amount of pain my sister is inflicting on my mother, day after day, month after month, year after year. It is terrible cruelty. The worst kind of cruelty. I don't care if my sister doesn't think she is being cruel or if my sister somehow thinks black is white, up is down, and shunning is love.
No matter what her reasons, she is deliberately inflicting huge amounts of pain and suffering on her mother, and that is cruel.
