Neighborhoods and families entrap large amounts of people in ways that follow them around even if they try to leave.īoth cults are actually the two fastest growing and only the JW's are growing faster than Mormons. Forums pile up with members who find it difficult to get out of it or leave it behind. Mormon beliefs, while certainly silly, are not as much so as the JW's but overall the LDS cult does more damage to society by means of its sheer size. There simply are not many huge communities of JW's ubiquitously covering entire areas causing members to have no choice but to remain or be alienated. Not only are the beliefs somewhat crazier but a JW probably has more ability to leave since the smaller influence of this cult logistically cannot exert as much social force on individual members. In actual practice, the individual JW is more loony. The two cults are different in size as well as belief systems. If I did, I would turn the air blue with my opinions about that evil cult. Scientologists abound in our community, but they don't knock on doors - at least, I've never had one on my doorstep. I felt a little bad - they were so young, and eager - but no one follows and accosts me in public, and gets away with it. They turned and hurried away without another word. So go peddle your religion to someone else, I ain't buying it." I know a great deal about Mormonism, and there is NO PLACE in your church for someone like me. I just looked them square in the eye and said, "I am a widowed, childless career woman who hates going to church, any church, on Sunday, and who thinks that patriarchy is a total sham, and people should have smaller families to help save the environment, and who knows without a doubt that my own inner voice is the only proper authority in my spiritual life. I turned and confronted them, and they started in on their spiel about the only way to salvation, blah, blah. They actually started following me and calling to me, which I did not like. The only time the Mo's ever got my dander up was once, when I ran into a couple of missionary kids in our local park. They are usually very polite, and I am the same, but I'm also very firm that I AM NOT INTERESTED AND NEVER WILL BE, so they are not to waste their time or mine with future visits. I've never had what I would consider a really unpleasant encounter with either. I will happily deal with either Mormons or JW's at the door. I have met a few that are pretty down to earth and not the cookie-cutter kind. I think a lot of this has to do with a higher Morg population where I live, though. You just don't know if you can trust them. One of my worst experiences is them disappearing with my kids for hours, unreachable, as if they are not accountable or absolved from communicating with other parents, to which I stopped allowing my kids to go over to Mormon households or go anywhere with them. They tend to have that aura of superiority and of course won't allow their kids to play with non's sometimes. I would say that in an area where there aren't as many Mormons, they've been pretty normal or at least they aren't any more or less odd than the uber-die-hard Christians I have met over the years. Mormons tend to be more nasty when there are a lot of them clustered together, and more relaxed and "normal" when the population is watered down. I met a few several years ago and they seemed normal enough, or they didn't behave in an outright self-righteous, critical, judgmental manner that you see with Mo's a lot of the time, and no baby voices that I recall. I don't think most JW's have some need to announce and make sure everyone that they're JW unless they're avoiding any celebrations, so if I've met any in recent years, I don't know it. I don't live around a ton of JW's, so if they have any oddities, I haven't encountered it.
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