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damariox:
That is exactly what the article suggests.. There's no going back when one has decided to fully become a jehovahs witness.. You cannot say you weren't in your right minds or your baptism was invalid, you must live and die a Jw.
Stop pretending, when a Jw disconnects with jw or joins another religion, what does he become? An apostate and now do you treat an apostate

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w06 1/15 pp. 21-25
Do Not Allow Place for the Devil
“Do not give the Devil a chance.”—EPHESIANS 4:27, Byington.


[b]Resist the Foremost Apostate

12, 13. How should we treat apostates?

12 The spirit creature who became the Devil was once in the truth. But “he did not stand fast in the truth,” said Jesus, “because truth is not in him.” (John 8:44) This foremost apostate has pursued a relentless course of resistance to “the God of truth.” Some first-century Christians fell into “the snare of the Devil,” apparently becoming his victims because of being misled and deviating from the truth. So Paul urged his coworker Timothy to instruct them with mildness so that they might recover spiritually and get free from Satan’s snare. (2 Timothy 2:23-26) Of course, it is much better to cling firmly to the truth and not be ensnared by apostate views in the first place.

13 Because of listening to the Devil and not rejecting his lies, the first human pair apostatized. So, then, should we listen to apostates, read their literature, or examine their Web sites on the Internet? If we love God and the truth, we will not do so. We should not allow apostates into our homes or even greet them, for such actions would make us ‘sharers in their wicked works.’ (2 John 9-11) May we never succumb to the Devil’s wiles by abandoning the Christian “path of truth” to follow false teachers who seek to “introduce ruinous ideologies” and try to ‘exploit us with well-turned phrases.’—2 Peter 2:1-3, Byington.[/b]

Exactly! The watchtower is confirming that it's a trap. What credible organization will tell it's members not to read other stuff except it's own. Only cults will do such vile things

A lot of people don't understand the JW religion because they are not directly involved in it. What the OP sought to show was that, the watchtower is trying to tell it's members that once you bcome a jw, you can never go back; in other words, you have no reason to leave. This is why they shun former members, even family. This is an example of a totalitarian organization. It doesn't allow democratic actions to take place.

Secondly, it draws unnecessary and irrelevant parallels from the old testament. Comparing Jephthah's vow with a JW baptism is plain wrong because , Jephthah was a Jew. The watchtower is just using these tactics to trap it's members in it's organization and out fear in them that they must not leave. If that doesn't scream "cult" in your mind, then think again. JWs are brainwashed.