The thought occurred to me that if post-secondary education is to be avoided, why would the WTS not make a similar stance about the internet? All dubs in good standing should burn their books and their computers... Really, the internet has great propensity to open people's minds and expose them to different ideas and viewpoints. In itself it doesn't promote critical thinking, but it certainly offers fodder for thought and expression. There have certainly been warnings about the internet, but it hasn't out and out been forbidden as of yet... Does anyone see that happening?
Ban The Internet
by megs 13 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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VoidEater
First oral sex, then chocolate and the Internet...the times they are a-changing!
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godadist
Obedience is not enough. Unless Witnesses are suffering, how can you be sure that they are obeying your will and not their own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of New World we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old religions claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Personal Bible Study. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a Blood Card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our Governing Body is at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Watchtower. There will be no love, except the love of Big Jeehober. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a new publisher maximum. There will be no art, no literature, no science-except the caricature thereof in the Publications. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Joe Publisher -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'
Excerpt from George Pioneerwell's "1975"
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Witness 007
China has banned the internet except for "state approved" sites.....good way to keep ideals of freedom out.
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Eyes Open
Well long term they have a choice: change doctrines or ban the internet.
Banning the internet would cut them off from the world to such an extent that they wouldn't be able to recruit and they'd die out, or at the very least move to areas of the world without internet access. Changing doctrines is the natural choice I guess. -
fattire5010
I don't see them banning the net altogether, given the dependence many people have on it's use. I could see them developing a portal to install on your computer, which would only allow access to "WT Approved" websites. Of course, use of such a portal would be strongly "encouraged".
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JimmyPage
Fat tire 5010 your wrestling pic is hilarious LOL!
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What-A-Coincidence
i hear the scientologist have such software
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heathen
Yah there's the oportunity they've been waiting for , just start their own ISP service that has only one site , the WT.org . They really are overly paranoid about the web since you can walk past porn at the gas station and most people use cuss words in public and don't like the WTBTS anyway . The web is the best way to lure newbies in on their site because most people are clueless as to the history of the org. or teachings.