Individuals are expendable

by Lady Lee 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Lady Lee

  Since the WTS' misrepresentation of the blood issue has come to our attention I have seen many comments concerning those who have died for the cause.

  The issue isn't a new one be any means. JWs sacrifice their lives, careers, families and children to this book publishing company. Policies regarding the sexual abuse of children, organ transplants, education, political cards (Malawi) and on and on demonstrate that the WTS will always put its needs above the the people who worship the almighty WTS.

  JWs are constantly warned to never bring shame on the name of the organization and the God it purports to follow. They are taught to "give a witness" in their children's schools, with doctors, in the community. Everything is appearances and sacrifice - for the individual.

  So many of us have learned about the double standard that exists between the org and the R&F. While those at the top of their ivory tower live very comfortably, the JWs are "encouraged" to sacrifice everything to serve the organization. WT leaders dictate every aspect of a JWs life - right down to what happens in the bedroom.

  Sadly few JWs realize just what the "cause" is. And these days it seems more and more like the "cause" is to protect the WTS and all its assets.

  Individuals are expendable, they are simply martyrs for the cause.
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  FairMind

  these days it seems more and more like the "cause" is to protect the WTS and all its assets

  Lady Lee, I agree with what you say but how do you know that the above statement is true? I still go to meetings and prepare the WT lessons so I have first hand knowledge of the direction the WT is going. Just curious as I imagine you have access to all the current WT literature.
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  A Paduan

  What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

  Some prefer sacrificing a few so they don't have to leave the others exposed to anything.

  Works in lieu of faith.
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  jeeprube

  One of the hardest things things for me to grapple with is, what is the endgame? What really is the purpose behind the GB misleading so many. I've finally decided that it's preservation of their empire. Preservation of power. It must be a powerful feeling to know that millions of clones are hanging on your every word. Who would want to give that up?
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  AuldSoul

  Fairmind,

  They claim that they are trying to uphold God's name and do his work. What did the Crusaders claim? How do you know the real objective of the Churches that sponsored the Crusades?

  The proofs are there already. They have already set the organization as equal to God and JWs treat the organization as equal, just as the Crusaders believed regarding their Church.

  The Bible says: "Do NOT put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs." (Psalm 146:3)

  This is group of men that demands implicit trust—even trust to the death—and callously cuts off those who waver. Any group of men behaves this way has the perpetuation of their own authority in mind, they do not work for any higher cause.

  Respectfully,
  AuldSoul
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  greendawn

  They are the proverbial wolves in sheep's clothing in them you find that benign pious appearence at the surface but beneath you find very intense fleshly demonic traits. The two aspects positive and negative are both present but it's the negative that is real the positive is just a front.
  
  At the end of the day this is a business organisation trying to pass itself off as a religion.
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  AlmostAtheist

  Lady Lee, I agree with what you say but how do you know that the above statement is true? I still go to meetings and prepare the WT lessons so I have first hand knowledge of the direction the WT is going.

  We can speculate, but there's no way to know what their true motive is. It could be totally pure. After all, the rank and file have mostly pure motives for shunning. That doesn't make it a less wicked, inhuman policy.

  I don't especially care the WHY of the Watchtower, since the WHAT is so abhorrent. Their ends un-justify their means.

  Dave
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  BluesBrother

  Yes.. the worst thing is to "bring reproach on Jehovah's name" , That is , I believe, the root of any cover ups about child abuse . Individuals are indeed expendable, there is no guarantee that you will survive the old system but that is ok so long as the group does. [makes it sound like an ant colony, eh?]

  Of course the sacrifice of your life, your time, your enduring a failed marriage that should have been terminated, the sacrifice of not having children if you want them - all this is inconsequential . After all "the new world is coming and god will satisfy the desire of every living thing" - So they willingly do it.... it makes sense doesn't it?
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  Lady Lee

  Fairmind

  Lady Lee, I agree with what you say but how do you know that the above statement is true?

  Experience. Personal experience. And not only my experience but also far too many people on this board and others.When you have hundreds, no thousands of people step forward and say "This is how I was treated" and "I was told not to let others know, not to bring shame on Jehovah's name" there is soething really wrong. Rutherord (as much as I think he was a tyrant) was brilliant when he created the name "Jehovah's Witnesses". By using the name "Jehovah" as part of the identity he could equate God with organization. This way bringing shame on the organization equated with bring shame on God.

  I still go to meetings and prepare the WT lessons so I have first hand knowledge of the direction the WT is going. Just curious as I imagine you have access to all the current WT literature.

  Where they are going? The predictor of future behavior is past behavior. The WTS has never changed how they behave. Their tactics have always been the same. It isn't so much "what they believe" but rather how they enforce what they believe. And no, I don't have any recent literature.