Feeling Poetic Again

by cantleave 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    I’m sitting in the Kingdom Hall, my life I’m contemplating. I hear a prayer for the “Faithful Slave” and it starts me meditaing.

    Your elevated state makes you rise above us “sheep”. You mediate on our behalf your rules we vow to keep.

    Christ our Lord appointed you to lead us to Gods wealth. To question your authority is to challenge god himself.

    Who are we to question? We’re your belongings, we are your dust. Without your guidance, commands and rules, who else are we to trust?

    You are the “slave”, you nurse our needs, you make us strong and fit. Without the wisdom you impart, Satans world would be our crypt.

    You are our fortress, you guide our souls, without you we’d be lost. We be just like the “worldly ones”, empty lives would be the cost.

    And then I think about your past, the beginning of your power. What did you do, for god bless and approve of the Watchtower?

    It started back in Russell’s day, with Pyramids and dates, the borrowed words of ad-ven-tists and miller and his mates.

    When Russell's rapture failed to come, he was a disappointed gent, who’s legacy was stolen, by a tyrant with bad intent.

    Rutherford, the “Judge”, saw the despression out in Style, with Caddilacs and Mansions. Wikipedia has his file.

    He banished birthdays, beards and fun, he ruled with an iron fist, he said Jehovah guided him as his lies took turns and twists.

    He told his followers they wouldn’t die, if they followed his every word, and took up preaching door to door, so the message could be heard.

    A name was given to the faith so it would be noticed and not looked over, the membership delighted in being witnesses of Jehovah.

    So I sit here in a meeting being told of the things to cherish, to become a faithful witness, so that I may never perish.

    I wonder if those faithful ones who thought they’d never die, considered your broken promises, as their wasted lives flashed by?

    Their generation, they were told, would see this system fall, a paradise would fill the Earth with plenty for one and all.

    But alas they’ve gone, overtaken by death, their souls the reaper took, no longer under your control to sell your little books.

    So what now? You know you’re wrong! How do you maintain your hold? We’re in an information age, where knowledge is better than gold.

    So demonise the internet, label those who’ve taken flight. Use fear and hate and elder spies to keep the flock in sight.

    Do what you can to stop the flow but you can’t keep every member, in seven years you’ll be exposed on the 5th day of November.

  • nugget
    nugget

    Make your lines shorter it makes it easier to read.

    Appart from that it was very good, it's good to vent . now where's my cup of tea?

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    Criticism from someone who can't spell apart!

  • LittleSister
    LittleSister

    Don't bicker, you words reminded me that though miss guided I think Russell believed what he started, while Rutherford I am not so sure. However, there is no excuse for those now in control.

    The next question I think is if you were in charge of a religion that you knew was a load of bull, but had tons of money in the bank what would your next move be?

  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    Little sister: "The next question I think is if you were in charge of a religion that you knew was a load of bull, but had tons of money in the bank what would your next move be?"

    You gotta know when to fold...

    Like when the gettin' is petering out...because too many people are wising up. Now with internet they have the opportunity to talk about it anonomyously without so much fear. Some are even standing up to the decrees. WT doctrine does not hold water; the emperor is not wearing any clothes. All the lies are being exposed. They have a choice: they can linger on and be run out of town, or sneak away in the night.

    If you were in charge of a bs religion and had made tonnes of money on it.....hmmmm....maybe you should take that bank wad and go buy a huge plantation estate in a third world nation to build your own paradise and start up the scam again. Especially if the people there have never heard of your religion and you've already spent 100 years getting the manipulation down pat and you know it does work...for a while. Go to a country where the natives are not-so-smart and don't have internet. Build a country paradise and invite the new slaves to come and study there. Make sure they are isolated from the rest of society.

    Make sure your paradise estate is way far away from villages and civilized towns. Then, begin new housing development on the fartherest outskirts of it so you can begin to accomodate a community of your new members. Build the Hall...and they will come. Having their own neighborhood just for members will keep them 'close to Jehovah'. See, the format must change now. No more door to door. It will need to become a monasterial type environment to provide free labor for building, gardening, etc. whatever it needs to become self-sustaining. Phase for the next hundred years will be building the self sustaining paradise and isolation.

  • dissed
    dissed

    Can you put it to music?

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    Dissed - I could but it would be all in minor chords to reinforce what sadness I feel when I think about the damage this destructive religion has done to so many lives.

  • cantleave
    cantleave

    Cameo-d I think we will see a change in the business model over the next couple of decades. I don't think it will be quite as you described, except maybe, the at the new HQ, which is isolated and likely to become very commune-like for the bethelites.

    I really do worry what the next incarnation of the WTS will be like, they are becoming more controlling, asking for more loyalty and hardening their stance in a lot of areas where I would have expected some liberalisation.

    The sooner we can get our friends and family to see the truth and wake up the better.

  • wobble
    wobble

    I thought I would join this thread to stop it being such a family affair, only me and and Cam. are not connected !

    "The sooner we get our friends and family........." That gets more difficult for me as time goes on, they, F&F, no longer talk to me about anything but the mundane. I do not get a chance to even plant a seed any more.

    I find it difficult to see a way of being more proactive without endangering the success of my fade.

    Love

    Wobble

  • yesidid
    yesidid

    Thanks Cantleave.

    Very good poem.

    y

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