For those who think they know the JWs or dubbers as we former cult members call them, You know nothing. I was a dubber for 35 years, from the time I can first remember I was indoctrinated with reading the cult material, being told that we were the only people that god loved. That we would be the only ones saved when shortly god destroyed the world. I was not to look to going to higher education, that was for stupid people, the world was passing away and so was "this system of things" Wordily people were under Satan's control and were not to be associated with. I had a cousin loose his wife during child birth because she was bleeding and would not take blood.
I have seen many family ripped apart because of the use of shunning or as they use the term,"disfellow shipping. " You can be DFd for as little as saying I do not believe in this organization as god's sole mouth peace on earth, smoking,having unapproved types of sex with your own wife or husband.
If you have a family member DFd, and you are caught talking to them you are most likely to be DFed. You can not have a meal with your son, daughter,or mother if they or you are DFed.
They also have a strange one of many practice of telling a cult member that they can not go to the authority's if they see a fellow member doing anything illegal. One big problem comes in with children, if a child gets molested the parents must not go to the authority's, they must instead go to the elders of their congregation. Now here is the big rub, you can only get in trouble if some one reports you to the elders if you have two witnesses or confess, so if the child molester does not confess and there were not two witnesses to the molestation, then the guy goes free. And if the parents complain or report the incident to the authorities then they can and will be DFed. Nice aint it.
As a Dubber you have to attend 5 meetings a week and knock on doors for a min of 2 hr. a week to convert the worldly people. each meeting is 1 hour. usually Tuesday night 1 hour book study, where you read a paragraph in one of the cults propaganda books, and answer hand fed from each paragraph. then Thursday night you have two meetings in a row, this is where every person does a talk from the platform, yep every one preaches from the stage or pulpit, not every week but you rotate until everyone has taken a turn. then you get a council from the stage on what to work on. Sunday is another 2 hour meeting, 1 hour public talk, usually given by an elder, the talk is an outline from Brooklyn head quarters of the society No one is to make up their own talk. Every thing is very tightly controlled. Then a one hour read and answer on the watchtower articles.
The list of how silly this religion is and how it came into existence is long. Things like they used to teach in the 30s that Aluminum was the devils metal, the vaccines were horse puss, that god lived in the pladies a star cluster in the constellation of Taurus, that the end of the world was going to come in 1874, then 1914,then 1916,1925,1945,1951,1975, the last was that the world could not go past 2000, since then they quit using dates and started saying "then end is very near"
This cult is very dangerous, do not let them study with your loved ones, they will come in very friendly and slowly teach them that they need to stop celebrating holidays with you, birthdays, and then stop associating with "nonbelievers" Depending on how strong your loved ones mind, this could be very dangerous. They practice lyftons mind control techniques.
Most of the people here who post "they are not that bad" have their head in the ass and no idea of what they are playing with.