i've taken the bible lessons but have never attended a kingdom hall.
i was curious as to what point they begin to tighten the screws of control?
let's say you're a baptist.
Prepare for boredom!
It's a low and slow process. There are outsider doctrines that are more acceptable and insider doctrines which are harder to swallow. When JWs are questioned about things like DFing, they will spin and word things with a spoonful of sugar.
Newcomers are lovebombed....so a visitor will believe these are the nicest, friendliest people on earth. It's only once a person is dunked that things change.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11257637/religious-sect-whats-it-like-to-grow-up-in-one.html .
article sent to me by a friend in the uk.. yep..
Excellent. I posted this on FB.
we all gossip.
it is only human.
watchtower actually tries to instruct adherents not to gossip and it can land a jw in front of a judicial committee—some do try to follow this admonition.
We all gossip. It is only human. Watchtower actually tries to instruct adherents not to gossip and it can land a JW in front of a judicial committee—some do try to follow this admonition. But then, that doesn’t seem to contain the storm.
And there are likely other groups that might outdo JWs, but do you believe that JWs gossip more than average?
I suspect that the heavily judgmental nature of the organization, the many rules that make mountains out of anthills, and so forth, the announcements of judicial decrees, the midweek pioneer cargroups, set the conditions that make gossip not only inevitable, but rampant.
Take the bunker videos at the recent convention, where folks sat around and gossiped about “Kevin”. It is almost an instructional video teaching people to gossip about those who are not towing the line.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-12/child-sexual-abuse-royal-commission-refers-1659-cases-to-police/7834972.
child abuse royal commission: police 'under pressure' after 1,659 cases flagged for investigation.
by brad ryan.
Doublepost...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-12/child-sexual-abuse-royal-commission-refers-1659-cases-to-police/7834972.
child abuse royal commission: police 'under pressure' after 1,659 cases flagged for investigation.
by brad ryan.
I wish there was a list of cases broken down by organization.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/alberta-appeal-court-rules-judges-can-overturn-unfair-church-edicts.
the other day, this court decision was posted on jwn along with a link to the court document, but few expected the media to pick up the story.
so to all involved, i understand it was a surprise to see the story in print.
I wish US government would insert itself like this. Government should act to the benefit of the rights of individuals over the supposed rights of organizations, religious or not.
so just the other day i happened to look out my window to see the cobe and the elder who studied with me on the doors.
it got me thinking.. i remember one day, during my study that he said he loved me.
although he meant this as a "brother" it actually sent me into, what i can only describe as shock and alarm!
Agreed. Even JW family have “no natural affection".
In fact, one could go down the whole list of 1 Timothy 3: "disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride"
They don’t even try to get me back, reason with me, find out why I left to try to address it, address questions posed. They are afraid of a boogeyman who is not there. They do not see the real me.
Even JWs who were my best friends, who attested to such “great love” and kinship, are nowhere to be found.
“There exist companions disposed to break one another to pieces, but there exists a friend sticking closer than a brother.” <<<All JWs proved to be the latter not the former.
He was a master of spin...he learned from the best.
so not having turned in a time-slip in a loooooooong time and making fewer and fewer meetings, and from time to time attending a local church service... the majority of local dubs are overtly shunning me.
there are those who i talk to and who visit our home from time to time, but this last meeting i went to hardly anyone made eye contact, when i greeted folks passing by me, they ignored me.
it actually felt good.. i was surprised at my reaction.
More and more I'm finding happiness is having little to nothing with still-in JWs. Not that they individually are to blame for the toxic psychodrama, but they are certainly conduits as long as they are part of the organization.
It was really hard to parse.
Then again, maybe those Golden Age writers had partaken from Rutherford's liquour runs during Prohibition.
Gravity? No such thing!
