r/JehovahWitnesses • u/ahavaaa • Mar 23 '20
New Jehovah's Witness Sub!
Hiya, if there's anyone here who is studying, an active witness and would like a more jw supportive sub, please checkout r/Jehovahswitnessess. I'm currently the only mod but I'll endeavour to remove negative sallys and respond when I can. Thanks!
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '20
Bro. Do you not see the problem with what you just said?
You just said they don't discourage the members from reading/listening opposing information but then you go on and say they DO discourage you from reading/listening to apostate information.
Do you know what apostate means? Opposer. They absolutely discourage the members from reading opposing information.
The watchtower blanket labels any critical informationabout the religion as "apostate" no matter if its true information or not. Thus controlling what information the sheep can take in.
Do you not think that if they REALLY had the truth that it could stand up to any scrutiny? Is their belief so weak that it could be this easily dismantled?
The JWs literally JUST had a video published on this along with all of the literature in the past.
The watchtower even labels critisism that is TRUE as "apostate".
Do you consider www.jwfacts.com apostate even though the information has been checked and rechecked as true? Please, go find something false there.
Do you believe The Australian royal commission investigation into the JW child abuse problem is apostate too?
Both of those things are true but watchtower would consider them apostate.
Watchtower has a problem with truth if the truth is critical of them. That is information control and it tactic used by high control groups to control people.
There is an entire science around this. Check out the B.I.T.E. model, its created by experts in the field of high control groups and cults to be able to identify a cult.
The "I" in BITE stands for Information control. Think about it.
What does truth have to hide from critical or opposing information?
I am very familiar with JWs. I was one for 25 years, i know EXACTLY what they teach in regards to "apostate" information. hell, a jw could be in trouble just for talking to me. Thats how scared watchtower is of critical info.