Dis Spell wrote:
Here is a good read on the JW and mental health of the members http://www.rickross.com/reference/jw/jw72.html

Note the anormally high corollation between schizophrenia and active JW's. There is one more reason to keep an eye on the activities and members as people with untreated mental imbalances in a cult that discourages access to psychiatric help.



About the JW cult (now in my siggie)

"It delivers people who have no tolerance for ambiguity from having to make moral choices. It allows self-loathers to project their hatred onto the world. It translates the allure of the world into Satanic temptation, so that those who fear its enticements are armed against seduction. It provides ego balm for the lowly, an identification with the The Chosen. Because Jehovah's Witnesses believe as little in psychology as they do in philosophy, it tames or numbs the wilderness of the heart by closing valves of inquiry."

--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison,
author of "Visions of Glory" and once one of "Jehovah's Witnesses"


I love this.  So well put.