Silly me. I can't seem to pick out the obvious wt connection. Maybe someone can hit me w it.
Must I spell it out for you?
Hera was all about power
Is this not a claim all of you make about the BOE, the GB, and the WTS Corp. itself?
The power to control lives; the power to separate you from your loved ones; the power to hold you back from higher education; the power to make your own personal decisions in life; the power to decide who you can have as associates and friends; the power to tell you what kind of employment is acceptable and what they will not allow; the power to hold your dead ones as ransom if you do not co-operate; the power to determine your future (they decide who gets resurrected and who doesn't?) That is a power only the Creator of the Universe would have. And yet these men tell you OBEY THEM...or else
Or else....you will see your life crumble in front of you? You will loose your spouse, your children, your job?
And at the discretion of the JC, your reputation as well? Your lifetime of friends and associates?
POWER.
Are you not all in bondage to this?
Are your loved ones not in bondage to this?
She wasn't very nice, not to anyone, including her children, and she destroyed anyone
If you are home sick, does someone from the KH visit you with a casserole, or you do get a call criticizing you for missing the meetings?
If you are a widow with children, does the BOE take a special interest in helping you and protecting you?
If you are poor, do they tell you your shoes are not good enough to be going out in service?
Do they make you feel bad about yourself?
If your children go to college, do you loose your position as MS, elder, etc?
What kind things do they do to help each other in the cong? Do you really feel like one big family? Do you really have the feeling of Jehovah's Happy People like you were promised?
If your spouse is not a JW will you even be acknowledged or made to feel included?
The earliest evidence about her describes her as Queen of Heaven, great Mother Goddess, ruler of people.
By whose authority does anyone have the right to take four days of your life every week? Who the hell is worth that? When you give up 4 or 5 days a week, every week of your life, that is worship.
From wikipedia:
Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as God, a godor goddess. It is the informal term in English for what sociologists of religion callcultus, the body of practices and traditions that correspond to theology.
God gave you a beautiful earth to explore and enjoy. Instead....
This WTS keeps you in a dark room without windows. What does that tell you? Are you being kept in the dark? Do you have no windows because you are not allowed to see beyond what they want you to see. It is a symbolic confinement. And they even have you calling yourselves "the slaves". Yes. You are that. Slaves to the "queen of heaven". You call WTS the "Mother," do you not?
So strongly was she imbued with this hatred of any immorality, that, finding herself so often called upon to punish the failings of both gods and men in this respect, she became jealous, harsh, and vindictive.
Isn't you religion a religion centered around slavery and PUNISHMENT?
Don't you all live in fear of her judgements against you?
ANd these stories I have read "I had to hide my brother in law in the bathroom because my husband wasn't home yet to meet him as planned and the Elders came and knocked on my door." Story after story of your fear. And yet you have done no wrong.
I went into a website and viewed old WT covers. No wonder children have grown up with nightmares and such fear. No wonder their lives are stunted and the brains have been withered in their heads. Those artists deserve to be destroyed in their own armageddon for bringing such terror to peoples eyes. It is demonic. It depicts hatred. Sometimes it even shows how people can be deliriously happy when the people in front of them are burning to death. It is sick stuff. It is totally warped.
There is a subliminal message here. If you look at stuff like this long enough, you become jaded. You become cold and detached. DESENSITIZED. It is pounded into the back of your brain that others who do not think like you deserve to die.
And somehow you have been made to believe that the boogey man will get you if you dare to speak up or walk out!
she became jealous, harsh, and vindictive.
Does this not describe your JC system?
If you dare to question...... Hera is jealous! How dare you question the queen!
Harsh? Kicking you out instead of "shepherding you" and answering your questions is pretty harsh.
Convincing your family and friends to display nasty attitudes to you because they tell them you have cooties. That's pretty harsh.
Vindictive? They seem to use the term "loose conduct" to cover whatever they don't exactly have a rule for.
Where I come from "loose conduct" is implied promiscuity. So, from what I understand, and you all correct me if I am wrong, but I thought I have heard it said that DF for apostacy is considered "loose conduct".
It's pretty vindictive to me that a "church" would try to destroy your reputation by making others think you are sexually promiscuous and are of "bad moral character" when all you did was question doctrine!
She was worshiped as queen of heaven and patron of marriage and women.
Is this why the Hera/WTS feels they have the right to examine your marriage?
To tell you what sexual positions are acceptable to them?
Is this why they think they have the right to hear the lurid details and know what kind of panties you were wearing when you committed a fornication? (I read that on here somewhere)
F****** PERVERTS!
This queen of heaven seems to put herself FIRST in your marriage even before your spouse.
Hera/WTS encourages you to tell on your spouse and family for any infringements of her dictates!
Hera/WTS places herself above the intimacy of your marriage and drives a wedge between family relationships.
Hera/WTS even calls your children in to account for themselves.
You have all been serving a false god from mythology.