HOW THE ORGANIZATION HAS LASTED THIS LONG... (page 3)

insearchoftruth

Great work as always Mary.....and I refer back to your book frequently!

Great job MARY. The Org lasted due to their shifting technics. They are experts in that, plus they have white-wash their past. Past doesn't matter for the average JW. It is irrelevant and trying to show them their past mistakes, only strengths their faith and the fact that they were wrong and corrected the mistake, while the rest of "Christians" did not change their mistakes and keep believing false doctrines.

It is just sad to see how they easily accept doctrine changes dictated by the Org(GB). For them anything comes out from Brooklyn is like God is speaking to them!!!

Also one of the reasons they lasted is FEAR. Fear of Armageddon, fear of an everlasting Destruction, anihilation of their entity if they cease to follow YHWH (Org). It is shame that the GB manages to control all those millions, but most of alll is they managed to be worshiped like Pope. Everything that they condemn they have become.

We that have our families inside there we feel so much pain because our loved ones are being abused by a banch of false prophets. We only wish if they could see the freedom we enjoy in Christ and feel the love of God.

JustHuman14 formely known justhuman

OnTheWayOut

How the organization has lasted this long-

"There's a sucker born every minute” - P.T. Barnum

With every disappointment (such as 1914, 1925, 1975) there were enough JW's left to be a larger base there was before the latest frenzy started.
I will just comment on the 1975 debacle. WTS needed growth to pay for modernization. They let Freddy run wild with his idea of 1975 because that really put fire into the members to recruit. There were more members that stayed after 1975 than they would have had if they never had that doomsday campaign. Sure, maybe you lose a percentage of members, but you grew at such an incredible rate before that.

Times are changing though. It won't work again. The next fallout will see dramatic decreases because information is readily available to the members. That's why there are no good ideas coming out of Brooklyn these days.

Great job Mary.

WTWizard

No wonder they just about banned college (they will take away your "privileges" if you or a family member goes). That is to keep them witless. Also, they have such strict warnings about the Internet, even against pro-JW discussion boards. They are afraid that the witlesses will find material to make them think.

And I wonder what is going to happen when we get more "secret societies" that embrace independent thinking, or if one or more of such "secret" societies actually becomes mainstream. Once that hits the mainstream, I believe the witlesses are going to be scrambling even worse than they are now--just imagine if every facet of life has the theme of independent thinking and making one's own decisions. It appears in school, the newspaper, popular music, and the like. No wonder they are racing to plunge the whole world into the Second Dark Ages before that can happen.

Sunspot

Mary,

You have outshined yourself with this topic!

I usually like to pull out a pertinent thought from larger opening posts....but as I read through this one I realized that each paragraph so truly resonated with my own experiences and observations of this hideous cult's hold on me for 30 years.

I have sat here over the nine years since I broke free and walked away, and wondered just what WAS IT that held my entire being so tenaciously and what it WAS that had me clinging to such total hogwash for three decades? My family had fallen apart by bits and pices as ones came into the WTS and then exited....my nonJW parents disowned me when I "actually went and did it" and became baptized into the "only pure religion on earth today"....and my only sibling, a sister.....had followed suit to appease my parents....and had disowned me as well. (She contacted me from CT in 2005 after both our parents died.....we reunited....she spent a few days with me up here in my home....and we are very close...proving that LOVE CAN win out over all obstacles in the end)

But back to the past.....I clung even closer new family (lovebombing works...but fades quickly)....and while living through the utter embarrassment of 1975, telling every nonJW within the sound of my voice: friends, relatives, neighbors, the bread delivery man, the milk man, the Avon lady, etc....I WAS the consummate and fully devoted WTS follower and bent everyone's ear with the wonderful "New System" (tm) that was going to be here in 1975 because this was about ALL that dominated my thoughts and conversations the closer it got. The JWs where I was living then...were so focused on this event as we heard talks "from the platform" (tm) on this, talks given during the "Serve-US" meetings, talked about it in car groups out in field circus, and excitedly chatted about it at one another's homes. NOW we hear----UH-UH....nope...the WTS never said that......WE were mistaken and WE read too much into what wew THOUGHT we heard.

I was loyal and devoted and "progressed with the organization" which meant I pulled the blinders on even tighter and swallowed my wounded pride...continuing ON with serving the WTS trying to gain new recruits for them... until getting a computer in 1998. I joined the old discussion board, H2O, and began to engage in conversations (or so I thought :O) with my fellow WTS defenders.....only to discover that the folks there were NOT advocates of the WTS but had legitimates beefs with MANY of its aspects, doctrines and very questionable history of unchristian behavior and sleazy tactics that I had no clue about at all.

It was a year and three months from the date that I joined H2O...to when I wrote a letter to the WTS HQs, the CO and the PO to let them know how disappointed I was in "the only true religion" (tm)...and the reasons that I could no longer, in good conscience....(the bible-trained conscience they wanted me to develop... mind you) could I want to be or have any part of this organization for another moment....

And I have never been happier, despite the rough patches of dealing with the very cruel, purposely hurtful and hatefilled shunning of thirty years-worth of friends and relatives that had been sucked into the cult. I am still being punished for finding out "my religion lied to me" and for honestly "examining my religion" to "make sure of ALL THINGS I was hearing".....applying ALL the wise counsel and the advice I had heard over my 30-year stint in the WTS army (through all their little catch phrases)....they turn like angry and snarling wolves when one of their own actually AWAKE!S up and puts the "slave's" own advice to good use!

I have yet to find the answer as to why I was SO gullible....and for SO LONG.... and what it actually was that my brain somehow refused to SEE for all those years?

I am sure I am not alone in this.

hugs,

Older and finally wiser..... Annie

minimus

Mary, THAT was spot on!

This piece that you have written could easily be shown to any JW. It is not insulting or incorrect at all. It is EXCELLENT!!!

carla

Thank you Mary! I gotta print this one!

Mall Cop

Mary, Thank you for that review on how the organization has lasted so long.

For me and many others, we stayed throughout it all because we were "Captives Of a Concept." The concept that there existed a 'Faithful and Discreet Slave' appointed by Jesus himself after examing the organization way back there in 1919.

Now we know that is not true and so many have yet to realize that this concept is holding them captive.

Little by little articles like the one you have shared with us are opening the eyes and minds of those who have been sitting on the fence so to speak and are now making their move away from the organization, even though it has caused us so much pain and emotional suffering with our loved ones.

Thanks again Mary.

Blueblades who is trying to have 'mall cop' removed and Blueblades put back on here.

Warlock

Well Brother Warlock, I would but since you might have 'lust in your heart' for me instead of agape love, you better bring along two or three good fine Christians to keep you in line.
Now THAT'S the Mary I know.
I'm glad you're feeling a bit better.
Now, from what I remember, the WTS did qualify the 1986 International Year of Peace by saying we would have to wait and see how it turned out.
I did know a brother(who is RIP), who used it in service anyway.
Warlock

civicsi00

Wow, I was already starting to type up something like this.. but I like your version better! Thanks Mary!

If only JW's would WANT to think for themselves, they would ALL see what a sham they're in.

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