Existence.
They are so deeply involved in this cult they know absolutley nothing else at all. Literally nothing else. So if the religion dies, in effect they die, if the religion propers, they feel a sense of success in their lives.
So what's in it for the WTS?
by leec 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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freydo
The Epistemological Cartel
"In The Architecture of Modern Political Power, Daniel Pouzzner outlines the tactics employed by the elite to maintain their dominance. Among them is: 'Ostensible control over the knowable, by marketing institutionally accredited science as the only path to true understanding' (Pouzzner, 75). Thus, the ruling class endeavors to discourage independent reason while exercising illusory power over human knowledge. This tactic of control through knowledge suppression and selective dissemination is reiterated in the anonymously authored document Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars:............."http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Ascendancy.htm
Kervorkian's Fourth Law
"[The others are: 1) "All Governments Lie, and They Tell Their Biggest Lies To Their Own People"; 2) "People Like To Be Lied To, and The Bigger The Lie, The Easier to Believe"; 3) "All Evil Is Done In The Name Of Good, and The Greater The Evil, The Greater The Good Claimed For It."]"
http://www.keghart.com/Fourth_Law
Tyranny of the Majority
"A fear expressed variously by Plato, Aristotle, Madison, Tocqueville, and J. S. Mill. If the majority rules, what is to stop it from expropriating the minority, or from tyrannizing it in other ways by enforcing the majority's religion, language, or culture on the minority? Madison's answer in The Federalist is the best known. He argued that the United States must have a federal structure. Although one majority, left to itself, would try to tyrannize the local minority in one state or city and another majority, left to itself, would do the same in another, in a country as large and diverse as the United States there would not be one national majority which could tyrannize over a national minority. But if there was, the powers which the states retained would be a bulwark against it. The separation of powers among legislature, executive, and judiciary at federal level would be a further protection against majority tyranny.
Critics of Madison have pointed out that his formula gives no protection to minorities which do not form a local majority anywhere. In particular, the Madisonian constitution gave no effective protection to black Americans until the 1960s, largely because the states' rights which Madison thought it so important to protect were used by the white majorities in the Southern states to oppress the local black minorities..............."
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diamondiiz
Just to add to freydo comments, a notorious man said this about governing bodies which can also apply to wts governing body itself:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” –Joseph Goebbels
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Mythbuster
Who is beth salim?
Actually Beth sarim - Rutherfrauds mansion!
Oops! Gonna go wikipedia it now.
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moshe
Power, just like Senator Ted Kennedy hanging on as a senator after being diagnosed with a lethal brain cancer.
The GB are addicted to power.
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frankiespeakin
Assuming that the question "So what's in it for the WTS?" applies to the ruling class of the WT ie->GB, Legal Department big wigs, and corporation puppet figure heads.
I think the once commonly used quote from scripture feed to the rank and file as a reason for sticking to the WT applies to the upper echelon as well namely:"Lord, whom shall we go away to?" John 6:68
At this late date in the lives of many who have reached the top of their careers in the WT organization, they to are faced with the question that the WT has offered to every loyal JW namely: Where else can you go?
This question bears heavily on the minds of even those at the top and molds their think to such a degree that they have a very difficult time analysing data and forming unbiased opinions based on good logic and critical thinking skills. They find rest in a fantasy based on ancient myths of a jealous God bent on destroying all those who don't have correct doctrine, their grip must be tight on such a fantasy to stay in their place of shelter riding at the top pyramid power structure formed by the WT corporation and deep down and perhaps only at the subconscious level they know it.
An so the phrase :"Lord, whom shall we go away to?" applies with equal force to the psyche of both the rank and file as well as those riding the crest of power and steering the WT organization.
They are too old for a career change in this later phase of their life, and why would they settle for truth if truth will leave them homeless, jobless, and friendless? They are left with no choice but to try to steady the WT ship through these turbulent times and hope that it doesn't suffer shipwreck while enjoying the upper class accommodations on board the WT Titanic as it goes full steam ahead through the Iceberg laden ocean waters of increased human understanding and enlightenment about how we got here with no supreme Deity showing up in the equation made so readily available through the Internet.