Jehovah's Witnesses A CULT

"Some of you MAY, or may NOT know this already, but Jehovah’s Witnesses ARE a
CULT! I was forced as a kid to attend their meetings, my mom to this DAY is
still sucked into their CULT! SO my new mission is to get the word out
there. After each "characteristic" of the cult, I put (in parenthesis) if my experience with the cult as a kid has shown this to be
true of Jehovah’s Witnesses."

Checklist of Cult Characteristics
The following statements, compiled by Dr. Michael Langone, editor
of Cultic Studies Journal, often characterize manipulative groups. Comparing
these statements to the group with which you or a family member is involved
may help you determine if this involvement is cause for concern. Place a
checkmark beside all items that characterize the group in question. If you
check many of these items, and particularly if you check most of them, you
might consider examining the group more closely. Keep in mind that this
checklist is meant to stimulate thought, not "diagnose" groups.

The group is focused on a leader to whom members seem to display
excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment. (YES)

The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members. (YES!)
The group is preoccupied with making money. (YES! ever notice
they all drive high priced cars!?)
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
(EXTREMELY TRUE!)
Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking
in tongues, denunciation sessions, excessive "meetings," and /or debilitating
work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
(YES, excessive amount of meetings and demands for "field service"...that’s
when they come bug YOU at YOUR house!)
The leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members
should think, act, and feel (for example: members must get permission/check with
leaders to date, change jobs, get married; leaders may prescribe what types
of clothes to wear, where to live, how to discipline children, and so
forth). (YES!)
The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for
itself, its leader(s), and members (for example: the group and/or the leader
has a special mission to save humanity). (UH YEAH! DEFINITELY!)
The group has a polarized us- versus-them mentality, which
causes conflict with the wider society. (YES, the witness vs. the WORLDLY
PEOPLE, that’d be you and me)
The group's leader is not accountable to any authorities (as
are, for example, military commanders and ministers, priests, monks, and
rabbis of mainstream denominations). (they register with Selective service
as is required by law, but will not serve if called.)
The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends
justify means that members would have considered unethical before joining
the group for example: turning in your children for breaking rules/beliefs.
(YES! SCREAMING YES! They catch their OWN children doing something the
religion is against, they will turn their OWN child in to be JUDGED by the
"elders.")
The leadership induces guilt feelings in members in order to
control them. (YES! As well as fear)
Members' subservience to the group causes them to cut ties
with family and friends, and to give up personal goals and activities that
were of interest before joining the group. (YOU BETCHA! If they are
"worldly," and not willing to listen to/convert, they certainly do cut ties,
or lessen exposure, doing what I’m doing now, is considered "apostate," and
may very well lead to my mother "writing me off"… but sitting here doing nothing
is something my conscience simply cannot allow me to do.)
Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to
the group. (YEP! At LEAST 3 times a week, PLUS field service. If you miss to
many meetings, people CALL or come by to see WHY!)
Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize
only with other group members (YEP! Cause us WORLDLY people MIGHT just get these
people to REALIZE they are in a CULT! LET US HOPE AND PRAY WE ARE SUCCESSFUL! EVEN
INSTILLING A GLIMMER OF DOUBT, Might be enough to get these people to question things
And SEE the REAL TRUTH!)

Feel FREE pass this on to everyone you know, protect those you love from
falling victim to this CULT! You might even print this out and HAND it to
the NEXT "Jehovah’s Witness," that rings your doorbell, trying to stuff their
propaganda into your hands! The more people that read it, the better.

Thanks!

Michelle Christman, TEXAS

...anyway, what is bad in meditation? and what is bad if someone thinks that his work is to save humanity (i myself think, that everyone should think it more or less)?

And, doesnt any organization bring new members and make money, when needed?

So i think you should write this thing much smaller to say, what you want :)

I just finished trying to do a little business with them, and they are the most disagreeable bunch youll ever want to meet.

Those Jehovah Witnesses can just stay right the hell away from me.

Ki No Ronin

Jehovah's Witnesses are predatory psychopaths who succeed by,"intimidation through litigation". They are bullys plain and simple.

The Watchtower is big money, being one of the top 40 New York City Corporations making nearly one billion dollars a year. That’s just from one of their many corporations.

Unlike in the case of Christians who are persecuted in other lands for talking about Jesus Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses are largely persecuted for following the teachings begun during the second presidency of the Watchtower, when Joseph F. Rutherford took over in a corporate flap and began changing doctrines quickly in the Watchtower belief system. He claimed that angels directly conveyed "truth" to some of those in leadership. He coined the name "Jehovah’s Witnesses" to make them stand out from being witnesses of Jesus, a typical evangelical expression (and a Biblical one).

Rutherford dumped holidays, birthdays and the 1874 date for the invisible return on Christ, and invented an "earthly class" of Witnesses, since only 144,000 can go to heaven in their teaching. The rest, meaning all 99.9% of Witnesses still alive, will live forever on a cleansed earth, under the rule of the Watchtower leaders in heaven, who will keep them in line by local elders known as "Princes."

If you have been "witnessed to" by Jehovah’s Witnesses and you reject their message, you will likely die "shortly" at Armageddon with all the other non-Witnesses, since theirs is the only true religion, and (if they can live up to all the rules) they are the only ones to inhabit this "new earth." If you believe Witnesses seem rigid now, any non-conformist during the future "cleansed earth" will be directly destroyed by Jehovah. Even now a Witness will be disfellowshipped for any one of many gaffs, such as smoking, taking a blood transfusion, or even voting.

To even vocally question the teachings of the Watchtower will result in complete cutting off, with family and friends usually being forbidden to talk to them. The Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world, in a time when Orwellian societies are nearly obsolete.

By their own Yearbook accounts, Witnesses are shrinking in number in many Western countries as of the last three years, as the internet facilitates the spread of information (much of it critical of the Witnesses). Witnesses are cautioned against creating JW-related websites, largely to prevent their members from discovering the history and dirty laundry of this organization on other websites. (There are literally hundreds of former members pages in many languages.)

The Watchtower strives hard to control the flow of information to the individual Witness, and prefers that all instruction come through the magazines they carry door-to-door. Without this form of control, even as they themselves admit, they would believe just the same as other Bible believers.

My hope is that there will be a day in each of their lives when the Watchtower magazine is no longer needed, and they can go to college, vote for office, and contribute money and time to other, more vital causes in their community. More than likely they will then cease to be persecuted, except in a few societies more authoritarian than their own.

» Theologically,Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult of Christianity.The oppressive organization does not represent historical, Biblical Christianity in any way. Sociologically, it is a destructive cult whose false teachings frequently result in spiritual and psychological abuse, as well as needless deaths.

References:

www.freeminds.org (type in a search word to find articles easily)

www.silentlambs.org (latest news on the child abuse lawsuits against the Watchtower)

{Footnote}
What forensic psychologist say about cult leaders like Jim Jones and David Koresh.They are control freaks who will never abdicate control.They will choose death by suicide or a fiery fight to the very end.We can indeed see a comparison with the arrogant watchtower cult.

[Final note; Jehovah's Witnesses have FOUR TIMES the 'pedophiles per capita' as the Catholic church! This is due to the Elder enforced code of silence.]

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About the author Danny Haszard: Former Jehovah's Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation (been there). Now a counter-cult educator. My home page, WATCHTOWER WHISTLEBLOWER: http://www.DannyHaszard.com