Jehovah's Witnesses, how do you respond?

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Just discovered the existence of Jehovah’s Witnesses on this site and thought I’d take the opportunity to inquire how they’d respond. I’ve often heard that people say that the WatchTower organization is a cult and that it’s members undergo mindcontrol techniques. That they have to endure separation from all friends and family members who are not Jehavah’s Witnesses, that they are sleep deprived by 5+ hours of Kingdom hall services/studies in addition to hours and hours of door-to-door work each week.

I’ve heard all these things and I’m sure that the Jehovah’s Witnesses have to and I like to hear their side of the story. What do they say and think about these aligations?
 
most of that sounds like stereotypes. I wouldn’t believe it.
 
SingleMomMonica said:
Just discovered the existence of Jehovah’s Witnesses on this site and thought I’d take the opportunity to inquire how they’d respond. I’ve often heard that people say that the WatchTower organization is a cult and that it’s members undergo mindcontrol techniques. That they have to endure separation from all friends and family members who are not Jehavah’s Witnesses, that they are sleep deprived by 5+ hours of Kingdom hall services/studies in addition to hours and hours of door-to-door work each week.

I’ve heard all these things and I’m sure that the Jehovah’s Witnesses have to and I like to hear their side of the story. What do they say and think about these aligations?
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Hi, Monica,

The Catholic Answers bookstore has several books to help defend the faith against inquiries from Jehovah’s Witnesses. I don’t think I’ve heard CAL guests define it as a cult in the popular sense, but their beliefs about Christ and other faiths is definitely askew to most other Christian traditions and our Catholic/Orthodox faith.

The Catholic.com site has several tracts that explain what the Jehovah’s Witness faith is and common means to refute it’s teachings. I also remember something that Karl Keating, the Catholic Answers founder noted in a recent call when he met with two JW followers: Bring them to John 6. All of it.

The book tells of the events of the fishes and loaves miracle, then Christ tells the crowd that they literally must eat his flesh and blood to gain eternal life. He repeats himself without changes to his words, and the people listening to him took his meaning and were, um, turned off by what they thought was cannibalism.

But the JW bible interpretation tries to adjust these words, making the passages contradict each other. If you were to show the JWs other Bible translations (Protestant and Catholic), perhaps they’d see that their interpretation has an important error.
 
HickmanJosh said:
most of that sounds like stereotypes. I wouldn’t believe it.
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Hickman,

You’d be wrong…it’s pretty accurate…I know I was married to a JW. Besides…stereotypes are stereotypes because they are generally true. The Watchtower Bible and Track Society is a cult. It’s indoctrination technique can be compared to some form of “brain washing” they are required to cut all but the most basic ties with family and friends that aren’t JW (which is part of the “control” technique by the way). They do have 5 meetings a week they are expected to attend and they are expected to do X number of hours a month knocking on doors to be considered “faithful” JWs…last figure I saw was a minimum of 10 hours. On meeting nights kids often come home from school…study for their MEETING (not school) eat…get their Kingdom Hall clothes (suits and dresses) on…go to the meeting…come home…do homework until late into the night and not get enough sleep…seen it happen quite a bit.
 
Does anyone remember Raven, she was an ex-JW wasn’t she?

I was going to show some of her threads to the OP, but can’t find her on this forum.
 
What has the Watchtower done for mankind?

The Watchtower is a snare and a racket.
 
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