by cultswatter 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Clearly the Kool Aid edition will be for only DEADICATED SERVANTS OF JEHOVAH !!!!
Did anyone catch the clever misspelling of "DEAD"icated servants of Jehovah......all those "dead" and wasted brainblocked minds that will dutifully gobble up everything and anything the men of the Watchtower will print?
What OTHER form of religion hides its lifesaving information and ONLY allows their followers to SEE it?
Can you say CULT ?
I KNEW that you could!!!!
I doubt very much this is a motive behind the change. As long as a Bible Student is still studying and attends an occasional meeting then he will be considered to be making progress. A Bible Student is hardly going to see this as an incentive to hurry up and get baptized. "Oooh, I better get baptized soon so I have the privilege of getting my own personal, shiny copy of the JW special Watchtower. Yippee". Yea right.
There's only one reason for the change: They want to keep the crazier, more dangerous doctrines out of the public eye. The editions of the Craptower that'll be offered to the public will no doubt resemble something straight out of Disney: the goodies (Witnesses), the badies (everyone else), along with a kingdom and happy subjects and with a sprinkling of pixie dust. It's the same technique all high control groups use.
even in the study articles, we have to explain terms like "pioneer" in ways that the public can understand.
What a crappy, lame excuse!!! Isn't the weekend lecture that comes along with the Craptower study called a "Public Lecture"? Isn't the public supposed to be there anyway?
This is the JW version of larger Scriptures cases on their foreheads. It also allows them greater copyright controls over fair use of Watchtower materials; they can now claim that the study materials are meant for JW consumption only and go after sites like this for threads like Blondie's weekly study article critique.
Do you think Blondie got to them?
I never liked reading the study articles and I can't imagine the public did either. It makes sense both from the censorship standpoint and also from the magazine placement standpoint. In my estimation they have been pushing baptism as least all my life. I think the best fear mongering tactic was the whole, your parents can't protect you forever, angle. They pushed me to stand on my own and I did...
"Excuse me? Are you a baptized member of the congregation? No? Well, I'm sorry, we'll have to have that magazine back now, thanks."
They'll tie a big shiny hubcap to the loaner watchtower, just like they do for the bathroom keys when you are taking a leak at a gas station.
I don't think they are trying to push baptisms in this way all that loaded language about "dedicated servants of jehovah" just like "jehovah has blessed our new arrangements" is simply the usual smooth talking to cajole and persuade the masses. They are probably doing it so that they can put in the insiders' issues strong articles that can be misunderstood by the non JW public.
Is it that the public will really misunderstand them or that they just don't want the public to know how creepy and cult like they are?
I presume that unbaptized publishers, children of baptized publishers and bible studies attending the Watchtower meeting will have access to a copy of the Watchtower. Let's not get our shirts in knots over this.
As for baptism, was there ever a time that the Society did not push baptisms?
