Jehovah's BAAAAA Sheep - Hive mind?

by kurtbethel 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • kurtbethel
    kurtbethel

    I found this on a JW discussion yahoo group and thought I would share.

    I don't know why your message reminded me of this, it is off topic, but it
    helped me to appreciate all of my brothers and sisters and the strange
    things they do sometimes.

    I am at a DC working as a watchman in the hallways. There had been a food
    stand set up and the very end of the hallway with a wall at the back of the
    brothers working it. Through the session a fire marshal had come by and
    told us that the stand could not be there because in the event of a crowd in
    front of the stand they would be trapped in the event of an emergency. So
    we notified Administration and they approved us to move the stand back up
    the corridor where it would be safer for the friends.

    Well you know how our dear bro. and sisters are, they memorize where the
    bathrooms and food stands were. Since it was in one place before the
    session, that is naturally where they would go at the noon break.

    There was a CO working the News Dept. for that convention and his door was
    right in the middle of the old site and the new site. I was asking him if
    we should put a sign up or something to let the friends know where the stand
    had gone. He smiled at me and said wait just a minute and watch.

    As soon as the Chairman dismissed the audience for break, here they came
    just like a herd of cattle, all of them heading for the end of the corridor.
    The safest place to avoid the stampede was inside the doorway of the News
    Dept. door The CO stepped out of the office and with a large voice said,
    "BROTHERS, THE STAND HAS BEEN MOVED, PLEASE TURN AROUND AND GO THE OTHER
    WAY."

    As if they were all on the same frequency, the whole crowd stopped, turned
    around, and began moving in the opposite direction. I had never seen such
    precision. The CO stepped back in the office, looked at me smiling and
    said, "Jehovah's people ARE just like sheep. You've got to love them."

    I try to remember that when someone does something goofy in the
    congregation. I just remember, "Jehovah's sheep, you got to love them."

  • LouBelle
    LouBelle

    A wise friend told me that sheep are there to provide the shepherd with wool and meat. So happy I'm not a sheep any more. I've evolved.

    Sheep: a bashful, timid or silly person.....ja! that says it all. Once they answered their questioned and answered in the affirmative they head off for the sheep-dip.

  • Robert7
    Robert7

    This kind of blind following at conventions used to drive me nuts! Looking back this was part of the dissonance building up. I refused to follow like a sheep. If everyone went blindly one way, I would go a different way just to not follow. Ahh the memories...

  • out4good3
    out4good3

    I think I'm going to throw up!!!!!

  • kurtbethel
    kurtbethel

    Okay Robert7, my kind of guy.

    I hope they appreciate my flower shirt at the next devival.

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