Watchtower Value Destruction

by WTWizard 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Creation of value is what makes society work. Those who create value enhance life for everyone, and often make life possible. The assembly line, the Internet, and supermarkets are all incidents where value creation has made things easier for everyone.

    Now, take an organization like the Watchtower Society. What sort of value do they create? People are told not to think for themselves when they sign up; they are supposed to base their whole life on what's pre-written. No longer are they allowed to value their personal experiences. And, when children are involved, they are usually cut off from the outside world. Valuable ideas are often lost. One would wonder what kind of world we would be in now if Edison, Ford, and Rockefeller had all become Jehovah's Witlesses before inventing or developing anything.

    More value is destroyed in that time is wasted. Every minute spent at boasting sessions, out in field circus, or preparing for said events is a minute that could have been spent elsewhere. Whether the alternate activity is sleeping, writing apostate posts, or inventing a cure for cancer, it cannot be done while the person is out in field circus. Gas is wasted in the process, helping destroy the environment and not being available for use where it really is needed. And, it disrupts the activity of every householder that is contacted. Every time someone has to interrupt what they are doing to answer a witless, value in the amount of whatever they were doing is destroyed.

    More value is destroyed trying to follow the rules. Fornication, in its place, is nothing more than a test drive of a marriage. If you forgo that test run, often incompatibility will go unnoticed until it's too late. Abuse usually results, causing intimidation which further destroys value. Not going to college or online, having to quit jobs to pioneer, and making the boasting sessions while sick also ruins value.

    And, the intimidation itself also ruins value. Every time you are doing something that is not inherently wrong, and someone hounds you about it, that disrupts your activity. Usually hours are wasted hounding you and being hounded. Then articles, sometimes fairly expensive (Christmas decorations, porn, and CDs are the most common items), have to go in the garbage. And the person is afraid to do anything in the future. This itself destroys value in the amount of what they would have been able to do otherwise.

    Occasionally, health and life are threatened by just doing what you are supposed to. If you go to a boasting session sick, you often have to forgo healing. You can infect others while there. Often, people get sick in the first place visiting a person with the flu (impeding their healing as well as picking it up yourself). The blood issue, accidents, dog bites, and the Pioneer Diet all add to this waste of health.

    There are so many other ways that value is being destroyed by the Watchtower Society. Protecting pedophiles and silencing the victims, promoting abusive policies and mental illness, and getting people to throw away their lives to go out in field circus all destroy value. All of which makes the world that much worse of a place, hiking prices for everyone and preventing needed items from being created that might improve life (What if the inventor of the Internet would have been out in field circus instead?).

    Plus, they usurp value. Many witlesses are on food stamps or welfare because they want to pioneer. Others are there because they didn't go to college or take a nice promotion, or cut back their work hours to make more time for field circus. Quite a few are hosted, in some capacity, whether it be the hounder-hounder staying at a "brother's" house or having a witless helping another build a Kingdumb Hell, or having someone dragging another "to make sure they are going in that new order". Plus, the new ones need rides to the boasting sessions, sometimes resulting in driving more than 20 miles out of their way, one way, to make sure they get there.

    In no way does the Watchtower Society help one to produce, create, or preserve value. The organization is a parasite that increases taxes (Welfare for pioneers) while keeping improvements off the market (you cannot be putting better products on the market while out in field circus). The Tower has to go.

  • nomoreguilt
    nomoreguilt

    The value of the MIND....They teach YOU how to reason on THEIR teachings, not on a vast array of sound priciples that have come down through the ages. Just what is wrong with phisophy? There is so much to glean from all of the understandings that have been promoted from many cultures. The wts forbids one to think freely for themselves. To realise life's expierence through one's own mistakes, without being condemned and penalized for life, df.

    When you force a set of values and standards that are at best palatable, upon someone, then you are asking for trouble. Do this, why? Because. But why? Just do it. But I thought this...DO it, or else. but my family? They must follow gb direction. Control, pure and simple. How many more minds will be devalued on the edicts of a man made organization. I value MY free thought processes and NO narrow minded, thought controlling CULT is going to take this away from me.

    NMG

  • alanv
    alanv

    Well written Wizard

    Hard to disagree with what you say. This could be quite a useful way of helping those who have doubts about the org.

    Although many witlesses don't like admitting it, nearly every good thing we take for granted in our every day life is thanks to inventions by people who.in many instances spent their lives createing something useful for society. How would the org. work without electricity, paper,the telephone, modern centrally heated buildings to name but a few.

    They need to be reminded thay these things would not exist if they followed the Watchtowers advice of doing as a little as possable in their secular life to allow more time for 'kingdom interests'.

  • LongHairGal
    LongHairGal

    WTWizard,

    This is a very good post you made and very carefully thought out. I agree with everything you say.

    You are especially RIGHT ON about the 'usurp' part. They are greedy, grasping and desperate for what is not theirs and that they didn't earn. I think the religion's stance against higher education and having no respect for secular work has engendered an attitude of ruthlessness and desperation among some in the congregations.

    Some of these nervy desperados wouldn't think twice about defrauding or taking from their so-called brothers. Some of them even reason they are doing nothing wrong. This is the result of the faulty logic in the religion.

    You would have to be out of your mind to have any business dealing with any of them.

    LHG

  • JK666
    JK666

    Not only that, but now they are literal leeches on humanity. They can take blood fractions donated by "worldly" people, but are forbidden to donate their blood to make them. Freaking parasites!

    JK

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    In no way does the Watchtower Society help one to produce, create, or preserve value.

    With the exception of the TMS which adds value by training to speak and read in Public

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  • VoidEater
    VoidEater

    Some people value ignorance, and the illusion of security. The WTS offers these in abundance.

  • Shazard
    Shazard

    My 0.02 $ after admitting that this is good post.

    When you ask JW about all goods we have in possesion specially in Western culture which no doubt has be shaped by Satan System, JW are bound to go into contradiction. There are two possibilities

    1. All inventors of Goods were not Satan agents but latent JWs but it can be prooven wrong, so we have to conclude #2
    2. Satan is able to CREATE, which bluntly flies into face of name of Jehovah which by its core meaning is Creator

    Reasoning #2
    Satan is bound by God's will and used as tool with all his agents for good of Gods ppl - JW, this leads to contradiction

    It means that God has bound Satan before Millenium and thus JW teaching is wrong and Christians are right by stating that Jesus really has all the power on the Earth and in Heaven last 2000 years allready!

    Other thing is that by this scenario God makes Satan ppl look better and more CreatorLike then God's ppl themselves as we do not know any major values JW have created, but we can name meny meny major values Christians and even Atheists and Pagans (Islam) have created.

  • LouBelle
    LouBelle

    Well when my aunt takes a measley R 10 from my pensioner gran for lifting her to the kingom hall(she's going there anyway)you must know how low they will go.

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