The real kicker is this: She is collecting food and health assistance from the State but is concealing her assets to collect these benefits illegally. Apparently, she sees nothing wrong with stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the State, but I am an outcast for simply refusing to read any more Watchtower literature. Of course, I will be moving out of her home soon because she is afraid that I will “bring demons into the home. It just sickens me that she is treating me so badly in the name of “Jehovah.”

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thanks for the comment.

You’re right about the tactics of the Watchtower. There is an unspoken Doublethink at work in the methods and minds of the JWs; they claim and pretend to each other that they’re just there to “preach the good news” and talk about the bible. But their goal is to convert, it’s as simple as that. If they knew in advance that somebody would talk forever about the bible but never convert, they wouldn’t bother with that person.

They are certainly false prophets, but then all religions make claims that never come true.

The Governing Blood certainly has the blood of thousands on its hands.

The “love bomb” effect you describe is also definitely true. Once you are isolated from your former friends and dependent on the JWs for social contact and support, it’s that much harder to leave.

What do you think?

Debunking the Jehovah’s Witnesses propaganda:
A) They are at your door to recruit you for enslavement to their watchtower corporation,they will say that “we are just here to share a message from the Bible” this is deception right off.

B) The ‘message’ is their false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming already in 1914.The problem with this,is it’s not just a cute fairy tale,Jesus warned of the false prophets who would claim “..look he is here in the wilderness,or see here he is at the temple”

C) Their anti-blood transfusion ban has killed hundreds if not thousands

D) once they recruit you they will “love bomb” you in cult fashion to also recruit your family & friends or cut them off. There are many more dangers,Jehovah’s Witnesses got a bad rap for good and valid reasons.
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Danny Haszard Jehovah’s Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation

What you’ve heard about the 144,000 isn’t strictly true. They believe that 144,000 will go to heaven; the first 144,000 to become baptised after Jesus’ sacrifice. Apparently this number is closed or virtually closed (all the members alive today must be very old). Those who don’t “make it” into the 144,000 form the “Great Crowd” who will live in paradise forever on earth. JWs therefore have no belief in an afterlife as such.

As for blood transfusions, I am disgusted. Granted, I never used to be. I used to be in the position of believing that I would never have one, and I’d make that “courageous” moral call for Jehovah.

Now that I know the truth, I realise that the Governing Body, a collection of old unintelligent clueless sinister old men have the blood of thousands of JWs on their hands. The only thing that protects them is what protects all religious scams: being ‘religious’. If our society treated religion like it did any other commercial enterprise, fraudsters like this (and Scientology etc) would be bankrupt in no time.

about blood transfusions, as a nurse we have recently had a 15 year old 20 stone JW boy who’d been hit riding his bike…his hemoglobin dropped to less than 6 (should have been 14-16) his parents (mostly the dad) refused to allow him to be transfused. the hospital finally sought and made him a ward of the court but didn’t transfuse him then either…what was so stressful was that the parents kept bringing in these very well dressed elders who watched and questioned everything the nurses did. they were very intimidating.

a few months ago we had another JW patient in her 30’s who bled after a nephrectomy, her family let her die…

i agree with them being uneducated. if you are so gullible that you have to be told how to live your life down to the minute details, something is seriously missing. i think it falls into the cult category.

By the way. You’ve been tagged.

I was raised in a Pentecostal, fundamentalist, Christian church and their teaching did not differ at all in these aspects. My parents would have been more for segregation from elements like homosexuality and witchcraft or possibly “re-education” for those people, instead of death, but there were members that wanted the literal interpretation of the Bible.

Sadly, I now live in an area that seems devoid of JWs. I’ve even considered attending an Alpha Course to get the same kind of sport. Maybe I could infiltrate and blog about the experience…

I also agree with your point about intelligence being generally inversely proportionate to the religious thinker, and not just JWs. It’s one of the topics I’ve thought about posting.

My gripe is not that the Watchtower is consistently wrong (which it is), but that they rewrite their history and lie to their members. Their stance on organ transplants has changed at least twice, and they have publically eased off on the stance of blood transfusions.

From everything I have seen they are still promoting to not get blood transfusions.

Another unfortunate observation I have of Jehovah’s Witnesses is their low intelligence. You may think me rather arrogant or superior-thinking to say that, but the reality however is really just that simple. In general, attendees are not very well educated and not very good at logical thinking.

This kind of ties in with your previous point that they cannot view opposing opinions. Once indoctrined, who wants to be a logical thinker since the system is going to end and we are going to have a 1000 year reign anyway? They even severely downplay getting a higher education-the very thing that will probably cause an even semi intelligent person to go WTF are they teaching me over there?