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Review: Nat Geo's 'Inside a Cult': Would you drink the kool-aid?
By April MacIntyre May 4, 2008, 17:41 GMT
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Danny, why such bitterness, hatred, and lies (that you know aren't true)?
Jehovah’s Witnesses are intolerant bigoted fanatics they go on foaming at the mouth rants aganist anyone who exposes their fraud for God cult.
Yes they DEMAND the ‘right’ to go knocking on doors to the point of intrusive illegal trespassing on private property but go nuts if anyone questions their bogus dogmas.
They are a religion of bigotry to the core.
The very inception of JWs was based on Hate. They hate the world, they hate other religions, they hate everything about 'this system of things.'
They are some of the most negative people on the planet. They can't stand the world or the people in it.
They are a destructive cult who is anti-world, anti-society, anti anything positive.
The watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses is a supremacist hate group who's very creed is that they alone are the 'meek who shall inherit the earth' ,death to outsiders.
The known hate groups like the KKK don't even go that far.
Statements,A B and C in the first post are true.
D 'love bombing' sounds right too but didn't experience it.
Early Christianity was full of zeal over the identity of Jesus (as GOD) and the emotional and spiritual impact of being born again and being filled with the Holy Spirit. Whether you believe in the supernatural or not, or whether you believe in Jesus or not, this was the CORE experience of Christianity, bar none. As time went on and skeptics arose within the movement, who doubted the supernatural claims of the early church, an attempt was made by them to weave a worldview that was more consistent with “logic.” The Gnostics intellectualized a mass phenomena into an intellectual system of thought, quite unlike the original. Jehovah’s Witnesses are like modern-day Gnostics yet aren’t even clever enough to come up with a consistent worldview. Unlike reading Gnostic literature, which is at least interesting and thought-provoking, reading the Watchtower magazine is akin to reading literature from the third grade. Does Jehovah know about Sesame Street? Maybe he should watch and learn a thing or two!
Michael Travesser is no different from most of the more well-known, and the as yet unknown, cult leaders around today. He arrogantly claims to have a direct line of communication with God, a claim made by many cults, including the one I belonged to until a few years ago, the Watchtower Society.
Personally, although Travesser seems to have convinced his followers of his claims, I don't believe he has any more contact with God than any of the cult leaders named in the article had. Neither does he, or any other cult leader or, in the case of the Watchtower Society, leaders, enjoy God's blessings. Rather than promote true worship, cults seek to divert their followers away from it, and indoctrinate them with their own twisted interpretation of the Scriptures. Having been subjected to this type of indoctrination myself, I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone who is fooled by this approach. They have surrendered their minds to these people, and they aren't even aware of it.
I believe that, in His due time, God will deal with such people, but not in the way they would have their followers believe.
MRF, Prove that what Danny says is not true. I am a Mental Health professional who works with ex-cultist every day, many of them JWs. I can't even begin to detail the Mental Health issues that affect these folks, some of them 5, 10, 20 years after they escape the Watchtower. Leaving the cults is not an end to the story but the beginning of a painful uphill battle to normalize within society.
MRF,
How well do you know the Watchtower? Let history speak for itself.
Proven facts, the watchtower clearly has the indications of a well organized cult.
First off hello to Danny and Randy. Now how dare you compare the witnesses to a bunch of coo coo's like their in some kind of cult. Now the moonies were a cult. They believe that the earth will one day be a paradise with only the Moonies living thru armageddon and inhabiting that paradise. Oh yah I guess that's what the JW's teach too. Well then there's the fact that true cults like Jim Jones or the Heaven's Gate cult always try to limit your association with non members labeling them with titles such as the 'others' 'outsiders' or 'worldly'. Oh yah JW's do that too. Well, then there's the fact that cults instill a separatist elitist attitude. You know, us against them and we're the only chosen one's-join us or die. Oh wait. JW's do that too. Hmmmm...well cults try to get their followers to do all their labor and conversion work for free. JW's don't..oh wait yah they do. Well cults usually try to get their members to dress similiar and use a separate lingo..using words that only insiders would understand. Witnesses don't do ....oh hmmm I guess they do all that too. Well cults usually don't allow their followers to read books or talk to x members who would try to give a different viewpoint of the cult. They don't let their followers hear any negative feedback from anywhere. This way their followers will be too scared to hear anything bad about the cult their in. There's no way that the.....Oh My ...The JW's do that as well. Wow! I guess the JW's are a cult. Good job guys.
Lol He said Sesame Street.
Cults have been around for along, even the Lord himself has spoke about these things. And he says, 'Many shall come in my name, saying I am the Christ, and shall decieve many.....'; we need to read our uncompromised bibles and stay away from independant followers of satan. That is the simple solution.
Authorities need to storm the compounds and rescue the children. Leave the adults be..................they are old enough to have known the truth but have rejected it. (Romans 1 which is not only referring to homosexuals but also those who have rejected the truth in any way).
The childrens mind were brained washed, true, this not by God, but by man.
Read your Bible, study to show thyselfs approved of God (1 Timothy 3:16)
Then make your decision. Its not a big deal, you either believe or u dont.
God Bless You,
Kevin
The children suffer the most in cults, including Jehovah's Witnesses. That's why most (factually) JW children leave that religion by early adulthood when they finally have a choice. They are not allowed to celebrate their innocent birthdays, or any holidays, nor do any organized sports but can only go in door to door work (which they honestly hate), cannot prepare for college as the religion devalues it. The majority of the actual leadership never have had children and have no reality for the needs of children. The leadership demands that their parents can not ever accept a blood transfusion for their children at near death, but fortunately, the Child Protective Services have to step in and 'save' their own children from their insidiuous man-made doctrine. Shameful!
I am curious if by definition NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is a cult.
many young folks feel it 'makes sense' and i know a loved one who has gone to seminars and everyone thinks she's a crackpot-she says we all don't understand. which is a typical defense of a programmed person, when she is emailed, she only answers the pasrt that have no accountability on her behalf.
Wow, one of the finest features I have seen written exposing the nature of the life in a cult. From mind control to sexual abuse, from children to women, from financial fraud to extortion, [when members run out of assets their families are targeted] these groups must be exposed. one thing i can add is that most cults also are involved with drug trafficing and and other criminal activity including murder ,try leaving when it is not Gods will and see what happens.A Pulitzer should be on the way!
if most people who follow cults are mainly misfits of society - people who can't adjust to normal, every day life, are unhappy and don't understand that they need to hold some responsibility for themselves. They seem to be people who are easily led and have no confidence in themselves and are willing to believe anything that makes them feel better, therefore, Jim Jones characters are able to ram anything down their throats and they believe. If they are adults, so be it, but it's the innocent children who need to be protected from these lunatics of society.
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Danny HaszardMay 5th, 2008 - 02:21:18
Just like a cult in every way.....
More have died from Watchtower spiritual and medical quackery than Jim Jones and David Koresh cults combined!
Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs:
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) Their 'message' is a false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming 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.
99% of the world has rejected the teachings of the Watchtower Jehovah’s Witnesses, the darker truth is they are a destructive and oppressive organization.
Mind control is a terrible thing.
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Danny Haszard Jehovah's Witness X 33 years
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