SURVIVAL doesn't come easily with the WATCHTOWER METHOD

by Terry 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Terry

  Life is survival prone when it is successful.

  99.99% of all species that have appeared on Earth are extinct!

  Humans have survived in place of other life forms which didn't. It is the capacity to abstract inferences and concepts and then attach a vocabulary which has kept him on top. Humans can transmit the entire lexicon of their acquired knowledge specifically by means of vocabulary (which includes math).

  Meaning what?

  Human beings don't have to inherit genius or a superior physical body the way animals do to survive. Humans can transmit data outside the individual's personal experience to equip them for survival. Man can learn by reading words, engaging in conversation/ debate/ instruction. Animals must actually experience new situations and adapt to go beyond genetic programming. And what the individual animal learns cannot be passed on to future generation. (Despite what LaMarck believed.) .

  Man RELIES on his ability to abstract information from reality around him. The UNdoing of man has been his error in confusing imaginary information with actual data! Superstition is the bedrock of man's error. The mechanism of superstition is the way it is transmitted from person to person. The virus of superstition is mysticism.

  Not to sound like a broken record but here it is in a nutshell:

  Man must grasp how reality works to survive. Man must learn real facts about the universe. When man replaces trust in his own rational judgement with faith in the mysterious knowledge of some authority figure he falls prey to the error of a hijacked mind.

  It happened to us when we were Jehovah's Witnesses!

  We took an imaginary world view as the ACTUAL facts about life and tried making our life work using those fallacious misrepresentations.

  The source of our phoney facts was a supernatural source represented by mystics who gained their mysterious power through some sort of invisible connection to deity. (The annointed "just know" they have God's spirit). As in all cases of Mysticism, the governing body wrest power away from others by holding themselves up as the channel we must go through to achieve a superior life. In this case, it is the BIBLE which is the magic wand which this magisterium wields like a weapon of great power. The hold on man's mind is illusory--yet--it is fear and a damaged consciousness which makes it possible. Religion damages man's confidence that he can think for himself.

  So, more specifically......NO. I don't accept that man has any built-in values to guide his life at all. They are learned through the mechanism of thought from either the enviornment (trial and error) or abstraction (forming concepts) or instruction (accepting the facts or opinions of others). Beyond that there is nothing but dumb luck.

  T.
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  ezra

  you never said why you were disgruntled.i always thought since i was in nursery school that something was definitely wrong with the way people behaved.i always believed since i was a child that death was wrong.then i got a bible study and realized that i was right all along and the life we are living was not meant to be like this.it also bothered me why we would sacrifice our own kind for the sake of money ,power,and fame .how could individuals in our kind sell us out.i got all my answers.my education is ongoing did you ever read the publication along with your bible is there a creator who cares about us.it discusses the complexity of life so in detail some of us felt we had to go to college to get it all but the point is the skeptics kept asking us at the doors about technical information and if you had read the publication and checked where the society got its references you would realize that what we see and know is not an accident.survival is tough whether your in the truth or not .the demons and satan realize their party is over and they are going to get really viscious and it is not going to be easy for anyone.remember the scripture where it said money would be thrown out into the street,have no value,another one ppoints out some would have luxuries of life where others would die because of lack.you really dont think leaving the truth is going to make your life easier.when you got baptized you took jehovahs side .satan really ,really,did not like that and satan plans things out .do you really think that hes not going to put pressure on you because you left.you can count on him putting pressure on you .the minute you responded to the truth you mad him angry.he takes delight in persecuting those that have left the truth .just because you left doesnt mean that bulls eye was removed in his eyes.and please dont htink i am judging you ,but youve been away long enough for the worlds bitterness to fill you.
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  Think

  We have new clones/drones popping in !!!
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  beksbks

  it also bothered me why we would sacrifice our own kind for the sake of money ,power,and fame .how could individuals in our kind sell us out.

  Hmmm perfect description of the WTS.

  you really dont think leaving the truth is going to make your life easier.when you got baptized you took jehovahs side .satan really ,really,did not like that and satan plans things out .do you really think that hes not going to put pressure on you because you left.you can count on him putting pressure on you .the minute you responded to the truth you mad him angry.he takes delight in persecuting those that have left the truth .just because you left doesnt mean that bulls eye was removed in his eyes.

  I remember being told specifically, that those in the "truth", and particularly those studying, were satans focus. This forums residents would then be safe, target removed. These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along, move along.
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  Terry

  I remember being told specifically, that those in the "truth", and particularly those studying, were satans focus.

  Considering the caveat that comes constantly from the Governing Body it is the Watchtower Society who seems to be focusing on the rebuttal at Internet sites such as this one.

  They feel the sting of an ALTERNATE point of view!

  How they can think themselves free or reasonable is beyond me when the will not sanction their membership to THINK FOR THEMSELVES and make intellignet choices based on alternative presentations of facts.

  The only arrow in the quiver of the Watchtower is fear and shunning.

  T.