by poopie 18 Replies latest jw friends
Sail Away - "It's called 'deceptive recruiting', a method employed by cults to hide their true practices until it's too late."
And once again, for the newbies, lurkers, and trolls...
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...if you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, your beliefs don't deserve to be defended.
It would be normal to mention this to people who study to join the religion.
Also something very important they do not mention: that they consider Jesus the mediator between Jehovah and only the 144.000
They say they are looking for honest people but they are anything but honest. They are so deceiving!!!
Oogie - "If people learned about this practice before they got dunked, there would be less people getting dunked."
Why else do you think they make a point of saying "no" when asked if they shun former members right on their own website?
A newly-converted couple asked me, basically, "what the hell?" when I saw them at the store the other day. The first df'ing in their experience has just taken place in the congregation recently, and they were shocked.
We had a very nice discussion!
The Organized To Accomplish Your Ministry book goes onto into it doesn't it?
That book is mandatory reading pre-baptism. But yes, the whole disfellowshipping thing is glossed over. You think with something so potentially devastating to a person's life as the d/f arrangement is they would make people sign a contract or something. Just to emphasize the seriousness of it.
If congregation "cleanness" is such a good thing why hide it?
