Boring Meetings are Intentional, Folks!

metatron

Long, boring, repetitive meetings are INTENTIONAL. They are NOT
an accident. Please consider:

Ever experiment with autohypnosis or autosuggestion? How about
affirmations to change a bad habit like smoking? You are attempting
to relax and program your subconscious. Closing your eyes helps
to establish alpha brainwaves suitable for such programming.

The meetings don't exist to promote thinking ability or rational
inquiry. The Watchtower Study in particular is NOT designed to
encourage reasoning - it is intended to produce conformity.

I admit that dismissing JW meetings as hypnosis might seem a
bit extreme. However, they clearly are akin to that mental process.
Turning the matter around, what better opportunity could you
imagine to put people in a state where reasoning is dulled and
programming is easily put in place than meetings of JWs?

How does the hypnotic process begin? (in cliche's, at least)

"You are getting sleeply..... sleepy.....sleepy"
"You are hearing nothing but the sound of my voice" (i.e. pay attention).

A little repetition is appropriate for education
Constant repetition is not - it is an attempt at mind control.

metatron

slipnslidemaster

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Slipnslidemaster:"The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

NameWithheld

Quite right, as I was replying to one of Leanderr's posts - the meetings are a catch-22 for them now, they must remain in the current format and many times a week to remain effective as a brainwashing/brain-deadening tool. But on the other hand due to their mind-numbing capabilities, many people who do like to think are quite put off by them. The question is are they put off enough to quit going. Once they quit going it becomes much easier to leave entirely.

The net result? The WTBTS ends up full of brain dead zombies - often driving away the 'cream of the crop' of humanity as it were, and being left with the weirdos ... <insert Fred Hall joke here>

moman

Yes, classic mind-control techniques are employed by the "Borg"
Think of the physical demands put on the "sheep", while they have you in a state of weariness, the Borg keeps the mantra hammering home! Damn, they are good at it!
-fastone-

ISP

Nope I don't agree. They try their best to make the meetings interesting...it just turns out boring! Seriously though...you have 5 meetings a week....it is unavoidable that there will be endless repetition.

ISP

Tammie

That worked on me, until I left home. Then when I did go to the meetings I would konk out. Wake up so refreshed. he he. So then I got to thinking why bother. Then I stayed home and slept (Sunday mornings), I slepted even better, at least there was noone trying to wake my up.

Missie Eff

And of course, on top of the repetative content we have the brothers who are specifically trained to drone in monotone.

Two such performers spring to mind: one who used the phrase "on a peronsal basis" at least 6 times a minute and another chap who would painfully draw out the ends of words - especially the word Christ (said through the nose). We had great fun imitating these complete twerps (both bald I seem to remember) but the joke soon wore off and there we were again, plunged back into boredom.

Nevertheless, there must be a training school somewhere for these ingenious techniques (if your theory is true Metatron). After all, they seem to have training schools for everything!

ashitaka

I don't subscribe to that, but it's interesting all the same.....

ashi

wallaby jack

Where's your enthusiasm brothers and sisters!? It's almost like you're losing your joy in service.

unclebruce

PS: I think logical is trying to hypnotise me in chat .. slow methodical repetition for emphasis

Pathofthorns

I agree with ISP. They are not intentionally boring, but working with the subject matter, along with the people in the movement, they just turn out boring more often than not.

Path

Boring Meetings are Intentional, Folks!

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