My sister said yesterday:
"Isn't it amazing how the Watchtower and Awake are so good that really we would only have to read them to know everything that's going on in the world!"
Asinine JW comments
by 5thGeneration 19 Replies latest jw friends
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mrsjones5
The blind leading the blind...that's so sad
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primitivegenius
that my dear friends is what you call a "well frog". they grow up in the well and if it dosent happen inside the well.............well it dosent matter. the well is their life and they NEVER leave it. they cant even imagine getting to the top of the well and looking past the edges.........
they are their own jailers
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SirNose586
I really feel sad for your sister. Being massively ignorant is a good way to get sold a bunch of lies--
Oh right. It's already happened...
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White Dove
How about the word "inculcate?" Doesn't that just make you sick? Inculcate the word in your son and in your daughter when you do everything..... I hate that word for that scripture. JW's use that word all the time now.
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steve2
How do I say this without causing offence? Perhaps there's no way, so here goes: People with very few active brain cells are very easily impressed with simplistic trash. Your sister, poor soul, is giving every indication that not much bright activity goes on between her ears.
Either that or you've missed the joke altogether: Maybe her humor is so subtle that she'd be amazed you've taken her seriously
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5thGeneration
Maybe her humor is so subtle that she'd be amazed you've taken her seriously
Umm, no!
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WTWizard
By reading the litter-ature only, one cannot know everything that's going on in the world. You just get the highlights, about a month or two (or more) out of date and with a blatant slant toward the Watchtower Society. I have seen things in the newspapers well before they ever showed up in the litter-ature.
I bet, for instance, their "solution" for higher gas prices is to do more field circus. Of course, they won't tell you that it will only drive your costs even higher. And I wonder how long after the higher prices started showing up at the pumps (by then, any newspaper would only be repeating the obvious) before the liter-ature picked up on it all.
I cannot see how a magazine with only 32 pages and printed up months ahead can possibly be thorough in showing all that's going on in the world. First, much of the Asleep! is devoted on some stupid animal that lives in South America or on telling young people not to desire the things that everyone wants. The Puketower tells people the new doctrines and what to believe (spending too many pages telling people to do ever more or detailing something that is 3,200 years or more out of date). Neither have any way to detail what is going on in the world like a newspaper can.
Notably, the Asleep! has reduced its Watching the World from 2 pages (a page is one side) twice a month, to one page once a month. There simply is no way any magazine can detail the events of the world in one page, and stay up to date when they come out only monthly. USA Today, on the other hand, comes out 5 times a week and is a full sized newspaper. That is much better at keeping one abreast with what's going on in the world.
Even a paper like USA Today is subject to bias. The advertisers of mainstream products often keep alternative product development out of these papers. Ads for petroleum products, SUVs, prescription drugs, and crap food keep these papers afloat, and if they pxxx off those companies, they can pull their advertisement and much revenue. However, such bias is much less than the bias created when you have a self-serving cult that only puts out what they want its members to know and always slanted toward that cult.
That's why the Internet rules. One can pick a topic and find 30 or more viewpoints on it. Many of them have links to up to date newspapers. Notably, the Watchtower Society disdains the Internet. I guess they don't really want their members knowing what's going on in the world.
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Superfine Apostate
my mom told me something along these lines the other day. "i'm so glad we have the mags, you can find an article to EVERY topic and it's explained in a way everyone understands it". (we were talking about some medical treatment). i said, i'd rather let a doctor explain things to me. and where she thinks the awake-people get their texts from, they just copy'n'paste them from other mags and spice them up with fluffy panda bears and grass eating lions. but she just kept going - i started laughing and couldn't stop... she wasn't too pleased about me laughing ;)
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monophonic
i remember people saying that as well back in the day, my dark ages.
if i actually heard it come from someone's mouth now and they were being serious, i would probably have a seizure.