The JWS offering of a white sheet of righteousness, is it really worth it ?

by Homerovah the Almighty 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Most of you folks know what I'm talking about, we've all experienced the white sheet and some will remember people that would cloaked themselves continually

  more than others to keep an illusion of themselves. One of the more prominent behavior patterns that comes to mind when thinking about the JWS is the ever-present

  I am righteous and you are not personal profiles of the majority and it highlights the proclamation JWS good people , non - JWS bad people, this indoctrinated profile was probably

  the most distasteful to me as I was growing up through my informative years as a youth and was impart one of the reasons I eventually left.

  In short, I realized the religion was deceitfully full of bullshit as were the people that were surrounding it and had covered themselves with it.

  Why is the reason thats worthy of discussion and why is it that some people will only put their foot in the door only on a Sunday morning and some others will

  give up their entire lives for a cause that seems so redundant only to maintain the power of the hierarchy that is so false of its own devised identity.
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  WTWizard

  The "white sheet of self-righteousness" is a piece of crap. You cannot disguise it--it came from the witlesses, and is a potential source of severe trouble and the most horrible luck (plus it reminds me of the witlesses).

  I replaced it with a colored sheet from L.L. Beans. It cost more, it does not have the self-righteous air and appearance, but it is much harder to ruin. Plus, it functions much better and will last much longer than that fake "self-righteous" white sheet of the Washtowel.

  Replacing the Washtowel doctrine with a much simpler moral code was about as sensible. It doesn't look as "pure", but it functions much better and will outlast the Washtowel "sheet".
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  Good one WT , the obvious fact remains is even if you were to strictly follow the behavior guidelines of the JWS you would still falter down,

  Two reasons for this is that they try to replicate the social behaviors and morals of people that lived 2000 years ago which in itself brings up an obvious question mark.

  Secondly there has been an established illusion that God is using the GB and the organization as his personal messengers , to sway from what is written in the bible and ignore

  or change biblical doctrine would bring down that illusion and the perceived power of which has been obtained.

  Its a decisively perplexing when you think about it, on one hand you have old and out dated social morals that do still carry some values but on the other hand you

  have evolved modern secular social values that go against what was written in the bible.

  Too bad it wasn't written in the bible that these set morals may have to be changed as social psychology awareness progresses.
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  garybuss

  I knew two Witness sisters who said they wouldn't stand for any sexual immorality.
  
  
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  snowbird

  I bought into that "clean" image of JW's because I have always loved to do the right thing.

  However, I came to the realization that, as far as humans are concerned, there is no such thing as "cleanness."

  I know you don't care for the Bible, Homerovah, but this is what brought me to my senses:

  Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
  and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
  we all shrivel up like a leaf,
  and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

  When I read this, I mean really read it, I saw the morally upright image that JW's are encouraged to project is just that. An illusory image.

  Incidentally, a little research showed that the filthy rags reference a menstrual cloth. Tee hee hee. In your face, Gibbering Buddy!

  Thanks for broaching this subject.

  Sylvia
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  dogon

  I know what you mean. They do this sort of mind game in all kinds of ways. I can remember my Uncle Kurt Babcock when I was young, had a building company in Indian River MI. He had a secretary named Lou Reed. She would flirt with all the guys, pulling up her skirt and asking if any one would scratch her itch. Well Kurt did scratch her itch and his at the same time. They had an affair and he eventually went to the elders and confessed. I can still remember him pointing at a white piece of typing paper and saying boys, I'm as clean as that paper in god’s eyes. I can remember listening to my mother talking to Carline his wife and she did not feel so forgiving. She did eventually but it was more because they had 6 kids not because she was so magnanimous.
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  Homerovah the Almighty

  I bought into that "clean" image of JW's because I have always loved to do the right thing.

  However, I came to the realization that, as far as humans are concerned, there is no such thing as "cleanness."

  I know you don't care for the Bible, Homerovah, but this is what brought me to my senses:

  Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,
  and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
  we all shrivel up like a leaf,
  and like the wind our sins sweep us away.

  When I read this, I mean really read it, I saw the morally upright image that JW's are encouraged to project is just that. An illusory image.

  Incidentally, a little research showed that the filthy rags reference a menstrual cloth. Tee hee hee. In your face, Gibbering Buddy!

  Thanks for broaching this subject.

  Sylvia

  My exact sediments Silvia, there is strong forthwith pressure placed on the JWS to maintain that illusionary image of are organization is so much cleaner

  and righteous compared to the other religions so much that people took on an arrogance of superiority up and above the general population.

  I call it the cloaking of the not so righteous.

  It obviously worked for some than more than others, after observing JWS that were in and out of my own family,

  this pretentiousness just pissed me off so much it was one of the reasons I left.

  The JWS to this day are big on creating an overbearing white image of superiority out in the world and its mostly set and designed for commercial reasons

  more that anything , just like a company has codes of behavior and dress when being observed by the public.

  Another way of looking at it is a self imposing marketing strategy for the Publishing company for what it really is and where does this company take in their most

  of their money from ?

  Each and every JW is being cloned and shaped to market the publishings of the Mother ship, the unfortunate thing is that for most of the JWS they do not take it upon themselves

  to make this realization .