Apostates do you still read Watchtower literature? And if so Why do you? (page 4)

lovelylil

Sometimes I read it. Why? For the purpose of Theocratic Warfare! Lilly

Terry

I honestly have tried to read Watchtower articles and books and cannot.

Why?

It just leaps right off the page at me!

What?

How awkward, how contrived, how utterly ignorant it all is!

It reads, you see, a certain way which you must get used to over time. It is almost a foreign language you have to master intellectually to make sense of. It is a secret language. It is a subliminal control mechanism.

The anti-intellectual rhetoric is chiefly numbing mind-control nonsense decorated with scripture citations.

There is so little that is NORMAL in any of it that it sickens me!

I swear reading Watchtower writing is like having somebody thrust a child-pornography magazine in front of you! It shocks the senses and revolts so suddenly and impactfully that you have to look away or become ill.

It fills me with revulsion that I tried to put these writings in the homes of my neighbors!

I feel like I was once a delusional terrorist trying to plant time-bombs in the homes of people for my illusory cause.

The Watchtower Society dips its pen in puke.

Borgia

I only read the WT articles on sundays at the meetings sitting next to the misses. I have had enough shit fed in the previous 30 years to last a lifetime.

Although it helps to tease others to be in the know!

Cheers

Borgia

AuldSoul

Yes. I do.

I do so because ...

(1) I want to know what is currently being piped into my wife's skull by the cult I used to support. This helps me point out examples in the reality of our day-to-day life that directly contradict the Watchtower's publications without drawing excessive attention to the fact that I am doing that.

(2) I want to find out what their current doctrines are on various points. Since their doctrine changes (at least modestly) on a seemingly weekly basis, I want to make sure that I am correct when I tell someone else what they currently teach. With such a nebulous set of dogma resting solely on the current whim of the Governing Body someone would quickly lose touch with what is being taught as "present truth" if they stopped reading the publications.

(3) I want to stay abreast of the doctrines they no longer publicize to newly interested ones. These are great gems to find; it lets me know what the Watchtowerites are afraid for new ones to find out. An example of this is complete absence of the phrase "Faithful and Discreet Slave" along with the scriptures Matthew 24:45-47 and reference to "faithful steward" (Luke) from the publication What Does the Bible Really Teach?

Any of these are (in my opinion) very valid reasons for an ex-JW to read the publications.

JWdaughter

I sometimes read the questions from readers at my mom's house. . .I sneak:) I wouldn't be able to read an entire article unless it was on some insane subject and I wanted to make fun of it. That's mean, but the articles are stupid and boring even when you think it is the TRUTH! Life is too short and too sweet to read that when I don't have to. I occassionally refer to the WT CD, but I do not read the literature for the fun of it-cause it isn't fun. Also, it is almost impossible to get current literature unless you get it from a JW, and no JW I know would give their precious spiritual food to moi.

Bumble Bee

I didn't read most of the literature when I was in, and read even less of it now. My mom occasionally sends me a few mags, and there is the odd time I've found some mags in the door (must be a CO visit coming up when I see them). I skim through them, but cannot get through a whole article. I go through Blondies weekly reviews, just in case mom makes a comment about it.

BB

Smiles_Smiles

No I don't read it. When I left I threw it all away and I don't associate with people that would have the new ones. I have the CD Rom left in one of the boxes in my office and that's only because I havn't taken the time to throw it away.

But that's just me.

Smiles

Quentin

No...have the Aid book which I browse through somtimes...have a nwt that was my dads, keep it for sentimental reasons...like to think I could disscuss jw doctrine from mmemory, if needed...the underlying message is the same...scriptures used never change...I'm no researcher so see no need to read wt literture...for those that do it's a good thing and I'm glad they do it...

love2Bworldly

I agree with many of you, that for the most part I can't stomach the articles anymore. Usually if I see any mags or tracts in the laundryroom--I toss them so no one else will read them. I do like to share articles with a Catholic girl I work with to show her how ridiculous their beliefs are.

By the way, I would love it if someone would mail me the January 15 Watchtower having to do with the whole shunning thing. Anyone have an extra copy?

Paralipomenon

I'll have one in April when my mother does her quarterly literature dump.

Apostates do you still read Watchtower literature? And if so Why do you?

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