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1. Absolute authoritarian leader – No meaningful accountability; leader’s word is final, often claiming a special mission or divine status.
2. Us-versus-them mindset – The group is “pure” or “saved”; outsiders are dangerous, evil, or uninformed.
3. Isolation – Members are cut off from family, old friends, and outside media or information.
4. Intense indoctrination – Long, exhausting sessions (love bombing, workshops, chanting) designed to break down prior beliefs.
5. Fear and guilt – Heavy use of shame, fear of leaving (apostasy), or fear of supernatural punishment (e.g., damnation).
6. Exploitation – Members give up money, property, labor, or sexual autonomy for the leader or group.
7. Thought-terminating clichés – Short, trite phrases that shut down critical thinking (“The leader knows best,” “Just trust the process”).
8. No tolerance for questions – Doubt is framed as spiritual weakness or a test of faith.
9. Special secret knowledge – Only the group has the “real truth” about God, the universe, or salvation.
10. Milieu control – Constant monitoring, reporting on each other, limited privacy, and punishment for dissent.

I find interesting that Jehovah's Witnesses require two witnesses for every wrongdoing.

Somehow this rule only applies if is a child

I personally know someone who got disfellowship for kissing his girlfriend in public

Only ond elder saw him and that was enough to disfellowship him

This is a clear example of JW swallowing a Camell

Because often JW don't need two witnesses to disfellowship someone they just don't do it.

But if a child is molested or abused suddenly you require two witnesses making it impossible to prove anything

I know plenty of people who got disfellowship without requiring a two witness rule.

I personally know a person who got disfellowship for kissing a woman in public that was enough to disfellowship someone

And only one elder saw him

So why do you need two witness if a child is molested if we know full well that people get disfellowship without requiring two witness for disfellowship someone

This is a clear example of JW swallowing a Camell

The verse where Jesus speaks about straining a gnat but swallowing a camel is Matthew 23:24.

Here is the verse in a few common translations:

· King James Version (KJV): "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel."

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Like I expressed my feeling before JWs and the organization behave like a 5 year old.

Instead of acknowledging the controversies they prefer to just deny and cover up what they do.

A religion that is constantly stalking, harassing others try to accuse someone of a wrongdoing is now just receiving a taste of its own medicine and they don't like it.

JW is a religion that abused so many children and has ruined so many lives they are now having a receipt of all those damages they caused.

Somehow when we read a lawsuit or s case involving Jehovah's witnesses the GB expects everyone to do as the monkey do not see, do not hear, do not say

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That or more clownery

What else there is to say?

A religion that has abused thousands of children.

Cover it up to protect their organization.

Now they have to clean up their mess.

Sell Kingdom Halls after they dedicated the effort to "Jehovah" to protect the Governing Body of the abused they caused to begin with.

All for what?

To protect the spiritual truth they need to delete every now and then.

Like the original Watchtower books.

The JW Broadcast prior to 2021

All the Watchtower magazines were Rutherford praised the German National Socialist

JW is a decadent religion where it's members out narcissist can't let them see who they are

Something I noticed especially the older folks is that they seem to be aware the religion is very shitty at everything. They seem to be aware of it but too heavily invested for leaving it.

Like someone once said

Where else are we going?

Like I Expressed myself before JW is an imploding religion.

It may not disappear overnight but bad press and internet is killing the Watchtower society capacity to expand and lie.

Everything shitty returns to them with receipt and people are more aware than ever of the toxic society they are.

My expectations is that eventually JW will have a demographic collapse in 20 years and they will later rebrand or liquidate.

But people have a bad taste for JW.borg and they can no longer rely on new members to continue their legacy.

A Century of abuses is finally coming to an end.

In the JW world. People are constantly trying to redirect the shame,guilt or anger caused by this religion towards other person simple for existing and living there

Reason JW is a cesspit of negative emotions,anger and frustratiion.

Let me define scapegoating for you.

Scapegoating is a social and psychological process where a person or group is unfairly blamed for problems, frustrations, fears, or conflicts that they did not truly cause — or are blamed far more than they deserve. The “scapegoat” becomes an emotional target for a group’s anger, insecurity, guilt, or tension. Common features of scapegoating include: Disproportionate blame — one person receives excessive criticism compared to others. Projection — people project their own flaws, fears, or frustrations onto the target. Group bonding through hostility — attacking the scapegoat unites the group temporarily. Simplifying complex problems — instead of addressing deeper issues, the group blames one individual. Social isolation — gossip, exclusion, humiliation, or harassment may develop around the target.

I had an Instagram account posting about the sexual abuse about JW.

And I tried to keep things factual and from known news sources or from known legal firms.

I essentially posted the Australian Royal Commission and ongoing cases of child abuse

Also posted on going court cases like the Norway trial

My account got banned today

Does anyone experienced the same where Instagram is banning for expressing your concern about JWs?

Can we make a thread of what stocks are you buying and what is going to be the next moon stock to buy according to your analysis

As someone who has seen this religion from having to split kingdom Halls because they reach capacity to see KH merges because no one is attending and even the merged one is struggling.

This religion is going down the hill and can't even say this without getting criticized by this sub.

Everytime I point out the curren status of this religion calling it in shambles. I always get replied and down voted

Is changing...

They have real estate

The growth is in Africa...

To me incredible to find how many posters are here to defend WT.

Most people are happy to left the org but somehow are still emotionally supportive of it.

Even if you give all the facts of the decline of the org some people here seem to be still in love for it.

It would be a great emotionall loss seeing this religion disappear.

JW is a religion that has passed it's expiration date and is about to be removed from the shelf and some people cant pass beyond it.

JW is a religion that has damaged so many people and yet people here are still hoping to exist for ever

Many people in my previous post commented that JW won't sink because is changing.

The Titanic eventually made changes to it's course but it was useless to do changes when the Ship is already half of water.

Something like this is happening to JW.

They are making changes but it's 20 years later.

The Ship is already sinking breaking in half.

People are figuring out how infested of Pedophiles this org and how mediocre their response was.

They are making some superficial changes to the organization but the hole in the boat is still there.

The org wish is that they could return to a Pre Internet era where they could get away and hide everything but that is just nos happening.

JW.org is now synonym of world wide child abuse coverup like Jeffrey Epstein.

Doing some reverssl changes to allow members to visit University may help but it was done way too late and won't help in their current status.

Their refusal to remove shunning while having some of the worst cases of child abuse supported by court documents is dragging them to the floor of the ocean.

Sure they are making changes to things we never thought they would like personal blood transfusion. But it is because the general public can read by itself the documentation they produce like Sheppard the flock of God they can no longer lie to the public and media saying one thing and doing the exact opposite.

The religion of Jehovah's Witnesses thrived on people ignorance.

Reason this religion was able to reinvent itself despite huge scandals and controversies like 1975,1925,1919

The reason this can't go on anymore is the quick access to information that we live today.

You can make a chart of JW decline vs Internet users and you would be able to correlate that the increased number of internet users completely match with the decline of members of this religion.

There is always in this sun this religion is growing but anyone with more than 10 years in this org knows full well how this religion has been reduced from huge international stadium to barely make it to an assembly hall

You can't say you are growing even you are selling and merging Kingdom Halls

Jehovah's Witnesses have been successfully managed to profit from people ignorance something they can't do thanks to the internet.

20 years ago they would be able to say that Norway was banning Gods work and they manage to save our brothers with tooth and nail at the court. Today everyone can read the court document by itself without a middle man telling the story

JWs are what I call a Lawsuit directed organization.

Imagine if the Norway lawsuit or the ARC of the multiple child abuse lawsuit that are going never happened.

Do you believe this organization would have made the latest changes if they would not be pressured to be defunded or have their status revoked.

Jehovah's Witnesses is a religion directed by Lawsuits not by any personal conviction.

Pathetic organization

I find interesting how times have changed where Watchtower was constantly accusing other religions from wrongdoing like abusing minors to be in the seating bench of being accused of abusing literally thousands of minor and cover it up.

I think is a good opportunity to make awareness to local politician and make it public via the internet the danger this religious group is.