Something I Never Understood About The Importance of Meeting Attendance (page 2)

journey-on

Silly, Minimus......the KH is where the contribution boxes are.

minimus

If I had to, then , I'd send a check in.

journey-on

Then they would KNOW you only contribute $5.00 a month. (Or is that overstating it?...lol)

Awakened07

Need to avoid forsaking the gathering together all the more so as the end draws near. Since we all know the end is imminent

-Makes me think about all the slackers back in the day when that was written. I mean - they were a couple thousand years from the end, so meeting attendance can't have been very important back then. Slacking must have been OK. Makes me wonder who it was written for. But I guess it was written for us, not the Hebrews. 'Cause we're really close to the end.

Quirky1

It's all about Contributions & Control

minimus

The point is, they give a Witness no incentive to want to go to a meeting. They are so dumbed down, it's ridiculous!

Sirona

Think about the indoctrination process:

1. prepare for meeting + read material

2. Go to meeting and listen to material being read

3. Listen to question relevant to material

4. Look at paragraph and read material again

5. Listen to someone answer question and listen to material again

NOTICE HOW THIS PROCESS MEANS YOU GET THE MATERIAL GIVEN TO YOU ABOUT 5 TIMES? Also, they encourage a hypnotic state in meetings by making them dull and repetitive...hence you are in a RECEPTIVE mental state.

Then they schedule meetings to cover the same topics every few months or so, so that the whole thing is even more dull and repetitive. You "tune out" and your subconscious brain tunes in.

Plus there is peer pressure, "if all these people believe it, it must be true"

This is how they get into your subconscious.

If you were at home you'd read it once and go about your business!

Sirona

minimus

Meetings either hypnotize you or put you asleep!

Bring_the_Light

Repetition for Reinforcement

So you can see your peers raise their hands and parrot the organization's bullshit, this leads to a psycological sense that "everyone" thinks this, so "I" better not displease "everyone" by rocking the boat. There would be no "indoctrination" without this. A person reading a book can draw their own conclusions. A cult member needs the cult in order to be a cult member. Being a cult member is what most people are in it for, not many, even very stupid people would read a magazine written at the 4th grade level every month and feel like they have something special.

Any other format does not work. "The truth" told to you from a book or from a person is unimpressive to anyone. The spell would be broken if they didn't have the "proofs of faithfulness" exercises of "answering" in front of your peers and of course, the field circus.

Something I Never Understood About The Importance of Meeting Attendance

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