its like Saccharin, very sweet at the beginning but leaves a bitter after taste that lets you know it was not natural but man made
Did you taste the "Goodness of Jehovah's Organisation" ?
by truthseeker 27 Replies latest jw friends
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REBORNAGAIN
Couldn't have said it better.
LINDA
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journey-on
There is no goodness in that organization. It's all fake and imo, sinister to its core. To quote another
one of their "trigger" scriptures: ".........having a form of godly devotion, but proving false to its power...."
This describes them to a tee.
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Sodom and Gamera
1) Did you have a FULL share in the ministry?
UHM. I rang a lot of doorbells and pouted at people when they wouldn't take the magazines!
2) Did you have a desire to do MORE?
I had a desire to stop at McDonald's most Saturdays. It was generally met.
3) Did you APPRECIATE your spiritual heritage?
I was pretty pissed off that I didn't get Christmas like all the other kids, actually.
4) Did you reach out for additional PRIVILEGES of SERVICE?
I got super-jealous when one of the other kids in the congregation became an unbaptized publisher before me, so I was the first to join the Theocratic Ministry School.
5) Did you give a BOLD and thorough WITNESS?
Yes! Also, very loud!
6) Were your comments MEANINGFUL?
WELL TO ME THEY WERE. Everyone needed to know my opinion on Jonah getting off easy and Jesus giving really good parties. (These sorts of comments are very cute when you are eight.)
7) Did you have the ZEAL of Jehu?
Well until I hit puberty!
8) Did you show yourself THANKFUL?
Only for Treat Night at the bookstudy! MORE TACOS PLEASE.
9) Did you BUY OUT the time for more personal study?
Every car ride to the Kingdom Hall, baby!
10) Did you meet or exceed the NATIONAL AVERAGE of publisher hours?
If the national average was two hours every other month, then I held pretty steady throughout my time in the congregation.
11) Did you INVITE your relatives, friends, co-workers and bible studies to the Memorial?
What Jehovah's Witness kid has *friends*?
12) Did you take advantage of the MEMORIAL SEASON?
YES I PAPERED THE CITY IN THOSE PAMPHLETS!!
13) Did you have the PIONEER SPIRIT?
The Pioneers had really nice cars and got to drink coffee all the time. I was jealous. -
Alligator Wisdom
If you can answer yes to the following questions....
And yes, basically I can answer in the affirmative to almost all of those questions.
And yes, at the time when I was "accomplishing much", it was sweet. It was because I looked good to others in the congregation. Pointedly, it was only to show the brothers/sisters that I mattered and that they could find substance in me. That I was a worthy servant of JW.
Eventually it became a painstaking experience to maintain that "outer appearance". The motive was wrong. It was because of guilt.
Truthseeker, I liked the way you used JW lingo and lined up the thoughts like that so precisely.
I'm tempted to copy your list and leave it lying somewhere in the KH. Those words words are mirrored in Jw-ism. ONLY JWs know that type of "speak".
However, seeing it compiled so nicely, I'm almost sure that someone in the congregation who stumbles upon this list can see the guilt factor in it....and be repulsed by it. Actually they may be "stumbled" by it. Ironic, wouldn't it be?
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously)
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dedpoet
Yes to most, until I woke up and left it.
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truthseeker
Hey Alligator,
I had fun putting it together!
If you only stayed in hotels on the Society's APPROVED HOTEL LIST.
If you made good use of those FIVE FULL WEEKENDS.
If you placed THE SPECIAL OFFER OF THE MONTH.
If you used the AUXILIARY PIONEER SCHEDULES in the Kingdom Ministry.
If you adjusted your schedule to accommodate the visit of the CIRCUIT OVERSEER.
If you WORKED with the Circuit Overseer and INVITED him for a meal.
If you did EVENING WITNESSING after coming home from a 9-5 job.
If you are over 18, watched the animated NOAH video and answered the SERVICE MEETING questions on it.
If you PREPARED for the ORAL REVIEW.
If you PREACHED during WORLDLY HOLIDAYS.
If you gave up COLLEGE and a SCHOLARSHIP to make FULL TIME SERVICE your career. -
Nathan Natas
14. Have you had a double order of glazed coconut-covered chocolate donut holes at Dunkin' Donuts with a cup of fresh hot coffee?
THEN YOU HAVE TASTED THE CHOCOLATY "GOODNESS OF JEHOVAH'S ORGANISATION"!
Let me have an Amen!
15. Have you gone to the door with shreds of KFC stuck in your teeth and bits of extra crispy down the front of your $50 K-mart suit?
THEN YOU HAVE TASTED THE ELEVEN SECRET HERBS AND SPICES "GOODNESS OF JEHOVAH'S ORGANISATION"!
Let me have an Amen!
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truthseeker
A few more tasty pointers...
You tasted the exquisiteness of Jehovah's Organisation
If you pursued ALTERNATIVE AVENUES of witnessing?
If you reviewed the ASSEMBLY NOTES the day after it finished
If you put your favorite hobby in a box to make more time for KINGDOM INTERESTS
If you took a part time job and sold your house to SIMPLIFY your life
If you gave an IMPROMPTU talk
If you made a whole-hearted CONTRIBUTION -
truthseeker
Amen Brother Natas!