Asinine JW comments

by 5thGeneration 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  katiekitten

  LMAO! I remember thinking the magazines were a superior version of a cross between JAMA / Readers Digest / The New York Times.

  I used to LOVE the letters from readers, where someone way always crying because of the relevance and instructiveness of a particular article
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  - "Dear Brothers I just wanted to thank you for the Article 'How to Bake Bread'. I literally broke down in tears as I remembered how my mother used to bake bread before spending 16 straight hours in the pioneer service. Truly food at the proper time from the faithful and discreet slave".
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  justhuman

  Yeah they are so perfect magazines that you can use them as a toilet paper
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  Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit

  And she knows that what she read is "everything that's going on in the world" because they told her it is.
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  Mulan

  One of my friends took an aptitude test for an employment agency, after losing her husband. She scored very high, and as if she had a college education. She attributed it to reading the WT and Awake and getting a well rounded education from them. I think she is just really smart.

  I had a return visit one time that was highly educated. He promised to read the WT cover to cover and give me a critique. I was pretty surprised when he said they were poorly written, and not scholarly. He thought they were on the level of middle school, and wasn't really criticizing, because he realized they needed to appeal to many age groups. I remember thinking he was a jerk. Now I know what he meant.
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  eclipse

  Katie! LOL

  - "Dear Brothers I just wanted to thank you for the Article 'How to Bake Bread'. I literally broke down in tears as I remembered how my mother used to bake bread before spending 16 straight hours in the pioneer service. Truly food at the proper time from the faithful and discreet slave".

  Looking back, I would say they printed only about 2% actual letters, and the rest were all bullshit ones that the writing commitee added themselves.

  I remember thinking as a JW, 'Come on, that is just too sickeningly good'

  Maybe each of the governing body is assigned to write fake letters and send them in.

  I would not put it past them.
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  drew sagan

  And why do they say things like that?
  
  Because the watchtower tells them they so!
  
  
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  logic

  I always thought the magazines were just plain boring. In the past few years I started paying more attention to what was being written and realized more and more how poorly written they really are. I always felt that the watchtower would not make any sense to anyone but jws. The society says you need them to understand the bible, but in reality you do need them to decipher their literature and after they do it still does not make any sense. The watchtower is a repetition of the same thing ever year. I told my wife that you don't need to keep getting new watchtowers just keep using an old one.

  My favorite magazines were science digest, mechanics illustrated, readers digest and the comic books. I am 61 and still enjoy the comics.
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  2112

  I remember reading, many years ago, about a study conducted in I believe Africa. They found a group of people whu lived in a desert region who had never see trees. They showed them pictures of trees and their eyes could not focus and comprehend what they were. I always thought that was interesting.

  I/we all know how uninformed many JW's seem to be. But that is their plan they shield their slaves members, and when the member des leave the are the frog being thrown out of the well. Once out the frog starts to sample all the files they can find and sometimes get into trouble. Then the WT can say "see, if you leave this is what happens!" I never heard any JW talk about someone who left the Borg who is doing great in their life, except to say the Satan is blessing them.
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  ninja

  hey clipsy.....I can imagine the governing body sitting discussing mind control and ..... just before finishing up for the night and passing round the brandy and cigars....they say....oops almost forgot.....its gerrit losch's turn to write letters from readers this month.....and him saying....aaawwwwww is it my turn already?.........its always me
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  steve2

  "Dear Brothers I just wanted to thank you for the Article 'How to Bake Bread'. I literally broke down in tears as I remembered how my mother used to bake bread before spending 16 straight hours in the pioneer service. Truly food at the proper time from the faithful and discreet slave".

  Sentiment well-captured Katiekitten. Those letters sure drip bucket-fulls of gooey syrup.

  I also noticed that when the Awake occasionally printed (mildly) critical letters about a recent magazine topic, immediately underneath the critical letter was a 'truly' appreciative letter about the same topic. I saw that as a predictable ploy by the editor to put the critical letter in a bad light (i.e., implying it must have been written by an ungrateful, complaining person).