[Admin Note: This is a post that was written in 2001. It's interesting to note that the “only” wiggle room given by this worker for computer usage 10 years ago, was at the workplace. However, true to 2x2 form, there were many workers that owned computers at that time and even years before,.......and made excuses by stating that “others” had bought and given the computer to them. Spoken rules but never written rules banned many things over the years, “BUT” the worker's narrow minded intolerance for many decades of radios, movies, jewelry, short hair, pants, makeup, TV, alcohol, sports and much more, wasn't going to work with the computer and it wasn't going to "BE BANNED," because they LOVED their personal computer.

A worker carrying a computer into member homes made it impossible to ban them.

The workers were finally between a rock and a hard place. They desired to ban the computer from members so they couldn't read the REAL TRUTH about their only way to heaven, but they loved the computer for themselves.........it made it much easier to send one letter to many people.

This showcases how phony, empty, and hollow to the core, ALL of their sometimes spoken, unwritten rules were. Their strange, illogical, man-created beliefs heaped on members for decades, finally came back to haunt and project on them with the advent of the computer.

And the rest is HISTORY

From Dennis Jacobsen: A publicly open letter to Hilda Hansen and all 2&2 preachers,

Hilda, as an old friend loved by both Ylva and myself, when I heard your voice at Ylva's Memorial Service when the floor was open, I was very glad to know you had come. Ylva and I have never once stopped loving any of you.

By Tom Schroeder

 "Parents Beating Their Children With Worker Approval"

Written March 2001 

From what I saw 60 years ago, parents were proud to show the workers they were disciplining their children “improperly” and the workers greatly approved of parents beating their children and making them come to meeting and sit still in two hour long meetings.

You see, the workers must start teaching the ways of the truth and the controlling method at the early age, and the adults must be in the machinery shed sitting in their chairs, and perfectly quiet for 15 minutes before meeting starts. If the head worker heard anybody whispering, he would rap on the wall.

Yes, the workers controlled you when not to talk and when to talk.

Yes, way back fifty years ago, the men sat on one side of the machine shed and women on the other side, so us boys sat with our dad, and he never took us out of the old machine shed to whip us, but we got our whippings at home.

My wife used to say, “It's funny the workers don't have any kids and yet they can tell parents how to raise their kids."

There is an unusual code which rigidly binds people who follow the workers. 

The spirit of

FEAR

discourages members and their families from thinking through the logic of the Bible on their own. And there is an ethic of misplaced faith in the workers which keeps people from asking questions about what the workers do and why they do them or what they believe and why they believe it.

Part One - - Posted on the Two-by-Two List on May 3^rd, 2001 by Tom Schroeder.

Hello again,

I am going to write up something about Abraham Lincoln today, and I may not get to that until I get into Part Two of this post.

Sometime ago, a member of the workers 2x2 cult system, asked me for what reason or why I am writing on this list. I told them that I am not doing this for fun, or for entertainment, or just writing fiction, no, not at all. I am doing this because I feel compelled to write some true stories about how the history and the lies of the workers cult system that I was held captive in, controlled my mind for years and affected my life, as well as, that of my wife and our three children.

I have noticed that there are over 200 people that are signed onto this list. It can be very possible that what I am writing here today, will be read by someone, or printed out and sent to someone to read that may be getting ready to profess, or someone just getting ready to become a preacher to go out and preach in the worker's cult system, and it may be beneficial for them to learn something about the cult system that they did not yet know.

Soul Loss

Here are some great books by Melody Beattie:

Reprinted With Permission

1995 by Gary Busselman
Raised in the Jehovah Witness Cult
(Dysfunctional family patterns - Abuse in the name of God i.e.)

(SPIRITUAL ABUSE)

My core beliefs were the result of phobia indoctrination by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (New World Society) of JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, reinforced by my parents and the collective efforts of the local members of the group, including most of my relatives.

My father's parents were Jehovah's Witnesses. He was baptized in 1935. When I was seven (second grade in school) the Watchtower organization became the primary focus in my parents life.

I tried to simply "walk away" from the control of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1974. I knew I had left Jehovah's Witnesses but I had no idea that the teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses had not left me, but were in fact my core beliefs that I was using to run my life.