WTS "good cop bad cop" strategy

sir82

Over the past few years:

"Good cop": Reduce the public talk to 30 minutes

"Bad cop": Condemn higher education with their strongest language in 40 years

"Good cop": Cut out the book study in private homes "so you can study with your family and save gas money"

"Bad cop": Latest convention release reiterates strongly the "need" to shun even the closest family members if they don't toe the line

"Good cop": Pioneer & auxiliary pioneers hour requiremnents drop by around 30% each

"Bad cop": "Reassign" thousands of Bethel employees, most of whom who were just cut adrift and expected to pioneer and work to support themselves

Another analogy would be the "abusive spouse"...buying flowers after giving her a black eye & broken ribs, etc.

So, what comes next?

Tired of the Hypocrisy

What comes next?

The demise of the WTBTS if there is any justice in this world......

Tyrone van leyen

When people have been opressed for so long and don't think for themselves anymore, just about anything can be seen as good in the eyes of the opressed.

Many women in Islam have been forced to cover their heads for so long, they actually see this, opression, as their freedom. It becomes a part of you. If they were ordered to take it off their heads, they would see it as violation of their rights. Authority in any cults, can never be questioned. That is why there was no outcry when several Muslim women died in a fire. They couldn't leave, because they were not wearing proper Islamic attire.

WE as humans get complacent to the strangest of things. In some cases, even folks who have been in prisons for so many years and get released, later do something to go back to the prison enviornment. It is something they are familiar with and even feel a degree of security and comfort.

I'm suprized the Crotchtower, hasn't started selling magic beans and getting people to tie magnets to their heads.

Nathan Natas

It's more like "fake cop"/"rent-a-cop".

changeling

Sounds like a George Carlin routine! Baseball vs. Football comes to mind.

changeling :)

Elgiard

When people have been opressed for so long and don't think for themselves anymore, just about anything can be seen as good in the eyes of the opressed.
Many women in Islam have been forced to cover their heads for so long, they actually see this, opression, as their freedom. It becomes a part of you. If they were ordered to take it off their heads, they would see it as violation of their rights. Authority in any cults, can never be questioned. That is why there was no outcry when several Muslim women died in a fire. They couldn't leave, because they were not wearing proper Islamic attire.
WE as humans get complacent to the strangest of things. In some cases, even folks who have been in prisons for so many years and get released, later do something to go back to the prison enviornment. It is something they are familiar with and even feel a degree of security and comfort.
I'm suprized the Crotchtower, hasn't started selling magic beans and getting people to tie magnets to their heads.

But Russell did sell magic beans for a while. It's one of those things that sounds almost too perfectly ironic to be true, but it is.

AudeSapere

So, what comes next?

AudeSapere

Sorry. Lately I've been having trouble editing posts. I tried 3 times on the one above but keep getting error message...

So, what comes next?

The biggest is the one that's been around for decades: Push them to do more and more for kingdom interests but when they are too old to perform anymore, ignore them and let them die alone. Hopefully they get to keep their dreams of the New System. In the end, their dreams are really all most have to hold on to.

-Aude.

Tyrone van leyen

Dang you're right Eligard! I forgot all about the miracle wheat. Not only that, the reason I brought up, tieing magnets to your head, is that there was a guy in my hall, who not only tied them to his head, he actually tried selling them to folks in my cong. He claimed that it helped his thinking. He even answered questions at the Watchtower study, incorporating his stupid magnet philosophy. I Josh you not!

These are perfect examples, of how the controlled, can actually be that gullible.I know he made at least one sale, to a much older immigrant lady, but the elders were able to find enough sense among themselves to counsel the guy on his behaviour. If it had come from the watchtower though, I'm sure sales would have soared. LOL!!!

rebel8

You're right, they do use this routine in their rulemaking. It is a really good way to control people while totally avoiding responsibility for mistakes. In fact most the practices and beliefs are based upon the good-one-minute-bad-the-next thing. Maybe they're all just into S & M, giving the flock some love taps.

I've actually seen elders use this in jcs. I was nonplussed [yawn], but I'm sure some are intimidated by it.

"Good cop": Cut out the book study in private homes "so you can study with your family and save gas money"

They cancelled the book studies for real? Damn that Satan. Raising those gas prices so they have to foresake the gathering together.

WTS "good cop bad cop" strategy

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