You get told stories fairly often of people it did work on, but never in my life met someone who actually did convert like that. But it is also absolutely a ritual religious service because you're also told that if you don't at least try to save others their blood is on your head
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It's not a ritual to convert apostates. It's a ritual to annoy apostates, further cementing the us-v-them dynamic.
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Way I've read it works is that the point is to encounter the out-group in a way that guarantees rejection that they then bond over once they rejoin the group. So the latter, yeah.
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It's evangelicism, the performance of their religious duty to spread the gospel. It is literally their thing.
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Insofar as it is met with hostility and rejection, this is a form of religious self-sacrifice.
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Maybe? Those numbers are rising in the graph... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses …
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It worked on me when I was fifteen, during a time when subcultures were forming. I don't know if it works now.
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