I think that is an 'Excellent' question!....And now that I think of it...Yes I do!
Do you think that the Watchtower and Awake Mags are Idols?
by MsMcDucket 27 Replies latest jw friends
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Honesty
Bu... Bu.... But they help us to be faithful to Jehovah's visible organisation so how can they be considered idols?
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MsMcDucket
Every time they get "new light" they produce another idol. The people go buy it obediently. Some by the books very happily, others buy it so that they can tell all the other dubs that they bought it. I bet the dubs have more idols (books and magazines) than any other religion.
To the poster that said that a man got a magazine out of the trash. That magazine was demonized! Or it's a Watchtower big fat lie! I bet the organization creates all kinds of stories to keep the rank and file motivated to keep placing the literature.
I'm getting all that &%$# out of my house! I think that I better burn it just in case it's true that some poor man came along and read the thing and turned not only himself, but his entire family into borgbots.
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xjwms
For a while I was getting the wt and aw on tape, and playing them in my car instead of music.
About four years ago I dumped all of them, ... I thought. This last weekend I found more......
Should I break em.....or just toss em?
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Mastodon
I will go even further in saying that the WTS as a whole IS an Idol, which the dubs worship daily, unbeknowst to themselves.
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Mastodon
**For a while I was getting the wt and aw on tape, and playing them in my car instead of music. About four years ago I dumped all of them, ... I thought. This last weekend I found more...... Should I break em.....or just toss em?**
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prophecor
At first I asked myself, " What kinda' question is that? " Now, I can see the sensibility in it. somewhat. I mean, we were encouraged to go around with our magazines from the platform. When in public, we were to be witnessed by others as readers of the material. While going to work on the bus or subway, when having a free moment maybe during our lunch break, " Make sure you have your Awake or Watchtower magazine ( prominently displayed ) in your back pocket.
I remember being able to easily pick out the truest of believers back in the good ole days, by those who would prominently display thier literature in full view in thier cars, especially those Green Bibles. It was almost like having a masonic secret handshake. You show those magazines, and most times they know, " your one of them ". No better way to be picked out of a line up of stangers as to whether or not that person is a brother or a sister.
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Leolaia
LOL....wouldn't it be funny to palm a lighter and through sleight of hand make the magazine burn into flames in your hands as you're innocently looking at it at the door, in front of the utterly stunned pioneer who had just handed you the magazine? And then make some comment like, "I guess that's sweet Satan's way of telling me not to read this kind of stuff?" hahahaha!!!
At least that's how I would envision an encounter between Criss Angel and some dubs at his door.
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undercover
I remember having boxes of old mags and couldn't get rid of them. A somewhat liberal elder asked me, "why not throw them away?". I was taken aback and was lost for words. He went on to say that they weren't holy writings. If they are too old and the pioneers won't take them to use as "old" mags at the door, then just toss them. We've got the bound volumes, we're never gonna back and use them. He said he never understood why the friends were so hesitant to throw them out.
In a small way, this brother opened my eyes, if ever so slightly, to the possibility that we were placing too much importance on what the WTS said and not what the Bible said. The event stayed deep in my memory and when I started to realize the truth about the "truth" this was a memory that came back to me as somewhat of a defining moment.
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misspeaches
Hell yeah! I thought it would be terrible to ever throw away their literature! (reminds self of several boxes of crappola that needs chucking away...)
The only good thing about the mags is you can see what they have changed in them compared to the bound volumes... 1984 anyone?