Blondie's Comments You Will Not Hear at the 07-19-09 WT Study (YOUTHS)

by blondie 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • Billy the Ex-Bethelite
    Billy the Ex-Bethelite

    Thanks Blondie!

    This article seems to be cobbling together different points toward the young.

    Spiritual crap is fun. Don't ever make mistakes, just act like you're old. Illness is no excuse. Be better than your slacker parents. Only marry someone that is fully indoctrinated. Preach, preach, preach. Act happy.

    Those are the points I picked out. They threw them together under one title and "scriptural theme". Much of the same ole same ole. But I think that, more than ever, they are expecting kids and adolescents to be "little adults". Just do the same as we expect of grown-ups so you boys can make MS by 14 and girls can pioneer at 13.

    In the local Kingdumb Haul, I understood why Writing crammed so many points for "the youths" into one lesson. Because articles like these can get wacky in the field. Everybody in the cong thinks they're experts on what kids should and shouldn't do. It's easy to start getting crazy comments of how kids should do nothing but study and preach. Lock 'em up 'til they're 30.

    Although it's intended to be motivational, at best it will be delivered as "protective", at worst it's "controlling" and "unappealing". Watchtower has nothing to offer the young except life-long slavery to corporate dogma.

    Yeah, good times.

    B the X

  • Pistoff
    Pistoff
    Some immature youths manifest a spirit of cowardice and mentally try to escape stressful situations by resorting to excessive sleep or TV viewing, drug or alcohol abuse, constant partying, or sexual immorality.

    This is amazing; young people today face challenges that were unheard of in the 30s and 40s, when the governing body members were growing up. They are not protected from the disturbing news of the world, and as often as not their families are broken by divorce. For young people who live inside the world of the Watchtower, cognitive dissidence rules the day. And now, they are accused of being cowards. It gets worse though; in a couple more paragraphs they will be told not to be donkeys or mules. Why not just come out and tell him that they're jackasses?

    The good news is this: the Watchtower could set the example encourage by:

    1. Simply apologizing for 1975 and not blaming the rank-and-file membership.

    2. Apologize for not being more direct about the blood policy that the change in the year 2000; it took at least two more QFRs to set the matter straight.

    3. Apologize to the families of those who refused transplants between 1967 and 1980 and died as a result.

    4. Apologize to the brothers and sisters in Malawai who refused to buy a political card and were beaten or killed as a result.

    5. Apologize for being wrong about the generations doctrine.

    The governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses could go a long way in their admonition to young people to not be cowards by themselves admitting to these things and moving forward.

    Great job, Blondie.

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