The WTS needs members only for service,contributions,and passing the WTS beliefs to the next generation.

by RULES & REGULATIONS 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  TERRY recently said in one of his posts:

  At the local Kingdom Hall you don't exist as a PERSON with value, feelings and importance. You represent a statistic for the "greater good" of others. Your service is all that counts.

  Terry's comment hit me like a ton of bricks. '' YOUR SERVICE IS ALL THAT COUNTS.''

  I asked myself: Why do they really need me at the meetings? Do they really care if I'm ill? Do they really care that I lost my job? Do they concern themselves if one of my family members is in the hospital or passed away? How am I doing financially? Am I tired from work that maybe I need to stay home from the meeting?

  I realised the reasons they need me: purchase WTS written material, comment at meetings,give talks,attend assemblies,contribute money,field service,and teach my family members WTS beliefs that will pass onto the next generation. Slave for the WTS and do their dirty work.

  THANKS TERRY!
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  alanv

  I don't think things are as clear cut as that.

  Just about everybody at the kingdom hall has been taken in by the WT society. They are all in the same boat.

  They genuinly believe you need to be at the meetings or you may give in to Satan etc.

  There are many genuine good people who are witnesses. Where they fall down is that they see no need to check what they have been told, and let's face it many of us were exactly the same. Let's have a bit of compassion for them.
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  WTWizard

  Just a bunch of hogwash. They want to run your life as much as possible, and they need you at the boasting sessions and out in field circus to do that. If people are missing boasting sessions and blowing off field circus, it is more difficult to control them than if they are at every boasting session and wasting their lives in field circus. Also, it is harder to control people if they are free to listen to or watch whatever they want, go to any web site they want, and actually have free time.
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  nelly136

  Why do they really need me at the meetings? Do they really care if I'm ill?

  goldensky posted earlier on the shun thread

  **I received a text message from a very good JW girlfriend with the words, "I couldn't help missing you at the assembly yesterday" (they had their special one-day assembly and we used to spend a lot of time together at those events not so long ago).**

  no how are you? are you ok? attendance is all important, whether you may actually be sick is immaterial, you just weren't at the meeting. it sets off the preprogrammed enquiry to fill the seat again. do they call any other time just to ask how you are or just chat without mentioning meetings? do they miss you any other time? would they remember you exist?