"Gift" Of Singleness?

by WTWizard 24 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • Homerovah the Almighty
    Homerovah the Almighty

    Again the WTS. has disingenuously have come out and are making statements that are not for the betterment of individuals

    but rather a betterment for the structure of organization.

    Why ?

    They have discretely been saying similar things to this for many years now, for the simple reason that singles have

    the potential to serve longer at Bethel , longer in the pioneering work ( gathering new members ) and so on.

    They've notice long ago that once a person gets married they tend to focus more on their marriage and usually bring

    forth children, which of course takes them away from going out in service and most likely a quick exit if they were Bethel workers.

    Controlling the slaves to do the work is their game, marriage to them is seen as a threat of a losing an employee.

    Interesting is it not that they never mention anything about personal loneliness, or the depression that can be brought on

    because of that loneliness, since JWS are carefully instructed to only date other JWS this puts a forced quarantine around

    people and very much lessens the chance of people meeting up with appropriate partners. If you look at the people that have

    worked in Bethel or who have gone into Gilead there were a proportional large amount of single people dedicated to the cause so to speak.

    Another way to look at it the WTS. sees single people as a more useful commodity, where married people not as much .

    Married people do not serve them as much, so they aren't as valuable.

    Sorry but thats the way it is with power and money driven cults .

  • Narkissos
    Narkissos

    I'm not sure how far this corresponds to the current perspective and policy of the WTS.

    Already in the late 70's / 80's I was under the impression that in spite of lip service to celibacy the organisation would rather trust married "brothers" for positions of responsibility. What is the proportion of singles among congregation elders, COs, DOs, Branch Committee members? Married people were seen as more stable and reliable -- and they are, as seen here from the additional problems they have in leaving the organisation.

    Now for special pioneers, missionaries, Bethel members (tip: all kinds of functions which were open to women as well as men), singleness is convenient to the WTS, but it seems to me that (1) those are no longer expected nor even encouraged to remain single many years, let alone a lifetime (big difference from Knorr's time) and (2) this is a kind of "staff" which the Society is rather trying to reduce these days for economic and legal reasons...

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    It all makes the word "gift" meaningless. If someone wants to get married, but can't find a compatible dub or the opposite gender... is singleness really a "gift"? Or if a sister has an abusive husband... is marriage really a "gift"?

    If both singleness and marriage are gifts, one might as well say that being tall is a gift, being short is a gift, being chubby is a gift, being skinny is a gift, being white is a gift, being black is a gift, being oriental is a gift, being an albino is a gift, having blue eyes is a gift, having brown eyes is a gift, having green eyes is a gift, having no eyes is a gift, having extra fingers is a gift, being circumcised is a gift, being uncircumcised is a gift, having a superfluous third nipple is a gift... Yes, and I suppose even sin is a gift.

    Really, if marriage is a gift, and since it's wonderful to receive gifts regularly, wouldn't it be logical that polygamy is a gift? Divinely wise King Solomon, who foreshadowed Christ Jesus, seemed to think so. In that case, marry early and marry often for marriage is the gift that keeps on giving.

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  • yadda yadda 2
    yadda yadda 2

    WTWizard, it is really necessary to use such shamelessly irreverent and vile language when speaking about Jehovah. I find your post very offensive and it's probably an abuse of the forum rules.

    Such language completely turns genuinely curious JW's off websites like this. Maybe you are a bitter and twisted hater of God but many members on this forum and lurkers still have belief in Jehovah/God.

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    "it is really necessary to use such shamelessly irreverent and vile language when speaking about Jehovah."

    So, you're telling me that this is a pro-God only forum? If you are a staunch Christian, you are probably going to find anything against God offensive; if you are Muslim, you would find anything Christian offensive (or anything atheist or against God). Either way, I can find nothing against the forum rules against such language--this is the rule:

    1. Insulting, threatening or provoking language

    As in calling someone "stupid" and the like, threatening someone with harm, provoking fights, and the like. Calling God a derogatory name does not seem to fit this rule, unless it violates this:

    1. Swearing, using hate-speech or making obscene or vulgar comments.

    As I blocked out the foul language (as I have seen mods do), I do not see where it violates the forum rules. The mods are the ones to make that call, and would have edited it or deleted it if they felt it in violation of forum rules.

    Now, as for the "gift" of singleness, it is actually only a real gift when fornication is allowed. And, since the Washtowel Slaveholdery does not allow fornication, it is disqualified from being a true gift. Just a "gift" to the Washtowel Slaveholdery itself.

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