Curious About Cult-ure

Not Afraid · 10-09-2007, 07:36 PM

My ex-SIL is a JW and my niece is currently one. What always shocked me about the JW culture is the amount of drinking that goes on. I have been to quite a few JW-infused events and there's a lot of alcohol served. Of course, I associate religion with abstinence, so I'm a bit skewed in that respect.

As for other applications......these are the ones that stuck me as things that are practiced in certain non-religious but familiar "forums":

1) Internal Control:
2) External Control:
3) Wisdom/Knowledge Claimed by leader(s)
4) Wisdom/Knowledge Credited to leader(s) by members:
5) Dogma:
6) Recruiting:
7) Front Groups: Maybe not so much in this case
8) Wealth:
9) Sexual Manipulation of members by leader(s) of non-tantric groups:
10) Sexual Favoritism:
11) Censorship:
12) Isolation:Yes, to a certain degree
13) Dropout Control:
14) Violence:
15) Paranoia: Amount of fear concerning real or imagined enemies; exaggeration of perceived power of opponents; prevalence of conspiracy theories. HA!
16) Grimness:
17) Surrender of Will: Probably doesn't directly apply
18) Hypocrisy: A possability on a small scale.

10-09-2007, 07:36 PM	#15
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	My ex-SIL is a JW and my niece is currently one. What always shocked me about the JW culture is the amount of drinking that goes on. I have been to quite a few JW-infused events and there's a lot of alcohol served. Of course, I associate religion with abstinence, so I'm a bit skewed in that respect. As for other applications......these are the ones that stuck me as things that are practiced in certain non-religious but familiar "forums": 1) Internal Control: 2) External Control: 3) Wisdom/Knowledge Claimed by leader(s) 4) Wisdom/Knowledge Credited to leader(s) by members: 5) Dogma: 6) Recruiting: 7) Front Groups: Maybe not so much in this case 8) Wealth: 9) Sexual Manipulation of members by leader(s) of non-tantric groups: 10) Sexual Favoritism: 11) Censorship: 12) Isolation:Yes, to a certain degree 13) Dropout Control: 14) Violence: 15) Paranoia: Amount of fear concerning real or imagined enemies; exaggeration of perceived power of opponents; prevalence of conspiracy theories. HA! 16) Grimness: 17) Surrender of Will: Probably doesn't directly apply 18) Hypocrisy: A possability on a small scale.
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