If You Were Satan, How Would You Destroy the Watchtower?

by metatron 24 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Jehovah's Witnesses have survived Hitler, Stalin, and third world dictators too numerous to count. 126 years of false expectations

    have failed to dissuade them. If you were Satan, what would you do?

    If I were Satan, I would use a long term program of draining them down spiritually, coupled with placing key agents in the Watchtower

    Hierarchy. Thus:

    1) Stop doctrinal "maintenance" - like a car, every system of theology needs repair and upgrading, now and then. This is all the

    more true of a small religion with odd or un-orthodox beliefs - and the Society used to do an excellent job of this, quickly responding

    to every challenge the world threw in its way. The old "Evolution" books were powerful examples of this ( regardless of accuracy!)

    Subjects like transfusions and the Trinity received a depth of defense that doesn't exist anymore.

    Now, we have almost daily news about evolutionary finds - and damning information from "apostates" - but little or no response.

    This helps to create a Witness that is "lightweight", unable to answer challenges to their own faith or anyone else. It also helps

    get rid of Witnesses with greater thinking ability.

    2) Gradually tear down the infrastructure that supports the Witness subculture - food service at assemblies? Not needed.

    Hard bound books? Too expensive. Subscriptions? Save the money. The Bethel Subculture - in which individual Witnesses

    maintained a closeness to the leadership by their sons and friends there? - downsize it. A Witness College? Are you kidding?

    Awakes twice a month? Let's get rid of this "truth-lite" crap.

    Next on the agenda? Start downsizing conventions and assemblies. Eventually start trimming Circuit Overseers.

    3) Ignore needs that should be obvious - Witness kids falling out of the "truth"? Challenged by internet porn, cohabitation,

    video games, self mutilation, depression, South Park, rap music, illicit drugs, smoking, "hooking up", and more, to a degree

    and intensity that their parents never faced ( do you know how hard it was to see "full frontal nudity" when I was a kid?)

    Just wag your finger disapprovingly. This, by itself will insure that this will be the Watchtower's last generation. Let's all

    guarantee full assimilation into the world, en masse.

    4) Destroy accumulated moral capital - So, you bravely faced the Nazi's , huh? What you need now is more headlines and

    lawsuits generated by your coverup of child sexual abuse. Meanwhile, the oldtimers die off and gradually we get Witness kids

    to be ashamed of being known as "Jehovah's Witnesses"

    5) Take a swan dive off the temple! - Jesus was tempted to dive off the temple by Satan, "the angels will catch you".

    Strip the organization of everything saleable and drive it with the thought that Armageddon must be almost here. Cancel

    your "return tickets" and bet everything on red on the roulette wheel of life! Believe your own propaganda!

    6) Place your "agent" into unassailable power! - did Satan "enter into Judas", one of the apostles (Luke 22:3)? Did Jesus

    once address Peter as influenced by Satan (Mt 16:23)?

    Why can't Satan put "his" men in charge of the Watchtower? Emphasize that no one is to oppose them or "touch God's

    annointed" so that they can't be stopped. You could do this with one man, who could gather power to himself thru

    cold hearted manipulations. He could appoint his cronies over everything and come to dominate the organization

    completely. He could slowly do all of the above and impose his cold heartedness on the "truth", while decrying

    Witnesses being "social". He could be nicknamed "The Boss" by Bethelites.

    7) and finally, enlist Jehovah into downsizing the organization! Read 1 Kings 11: 14, 23 and context.

    Solomon and other old men had grown corrupt and uncaring about the nation of Israel ( 1 Kings 12:4) Jehovah "raised up

    resisters" against Israel. Do you wonder why the organization can't really fufill Isaiah 54:17 about the Internet weapon,

    exposing them and causing them headaches? Have you ever considered that God might be fed up with this

    unloving, magazine peddling, deceptive , mercenary mess that the organization has become - and wants to end it?

    You lurkers have much to think about. If I were Satan, I wouldn't change a thing.

    metatron

  • Kaput
    Kaput
    If I were Satan, I wouldn't change a thing.

    And he won't.

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    You brought to my mind the book "The Screwtaple Letters" by C.S. Lewis - I really need to read that book

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    If i were satan, i would blow up all the branch offices. That would be a good start. Depending on how that affected the r&f, perhaps i would destroy all the kinghells next. If that worked well in destroying the org, then i would do all the private homes wherein the r&f were continuing to meet. I could even go as far as disintegrating all of their books, mags, tapes, tracts, leaflets and songbooks that exist. Since it is just a corp, in many ways like other corps, i think the brute force approach would work. Hey, it worked in ww2. But, of course, there is no satan the devil. Secondly, this scenario is based on wt ideas, which include that jesus/jehovah are protecting them and guiding their efforts. And so, in that construct, satan would not be able to do much of what i listed above, before jesus/jehovah stepped in to put a stop to it.

    S

  • RR
    RR

    I thought the Watchtower was Satan!

  • aniron
    aniron

    Yeah, Why would Satan destroy something he created and runs anyway??

  • sf
    sf
    the Society used to do an excellent job of this, quickly responding

    to every challenge the world threw in its way

    Yea, I doubt they realized the magnitude of the InformationHighway. I'd say it is their biggest challenge at this time; to stop the information.

    Yet...they WILL fail to do so. THAT is already very evident with the influx of new posters here and lurkers 'coming out' and finally posting.

    I mean, what else would and/ or could have compelled them to do so...NOW?

    sKally

  • Will Power
    Will Power

    the internet is a GOD SEND

    satan forbids any light, esp when it shines on one of his rest stops.

    another great post Met.

    wp

  • Rig Boy
    Rig Boy

    That is an invalid question...Satan runs the Watchtower by proxy.

  • daniel-p
    daniel-p

    Excellent post - I got a lot out of it, thanks.

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