I called my mom out on the fact the the WT is just a publishing company using them as guinea pigs to buy their literature after she called me about a year ago I guess, and was raving about some new publication they had gotten either at the circuit assembly or the district convention. I'm like, "Oh really? Is there something in this "new" publication that hasn't already been covered in the thousands of previous publications?" (((Gasp))) on the other end of the phone. She says the publication has "new" information. I asked her if she knew what Solomon said regarding things that were "new" and the writing of many books?
Then I quoted her Eccl. 1:9,10: 9 : " That which has come to be, that is what will come to be; and that which has been done, that is what will be done; and so there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Does anything exist of which one may say: “See this; it is new”? It has already had existence for time indefinite; what has come into existence is from time prior to us."
and then quoted Eccl: 12:11,12:
11 " The words of the wise ones are like oxgoads, and just like nails driven in are those indulging in collections [of sentences]; they have been given from one shepherd. 12 As regards anything besides these, my son, take a warning: To the making of many books there is no end, and much devotion [to them] is wearisome to the flesh."
(((GASP))) !!!!!
She's like, "Who have you been talking to? APOSTATES???" (Yep, those darn apostates.)
I told her, "Just been reading my Bible mom. The only book God gave us and has saw fit to preserve all these years and not add to it. Considering that the WTBTS has only been around a short time - maybe what, 150 years+/-? ... I guess God felt the Bible was enough for mankind to get by with for the first 5850 years of mankind's existence (+/-) without having some publishing company printing thousands of books and magazines to interpret it. Don't you think?"
(((GASP)))
It's sad, sad when people are so delusional they can't put two and two together. I just got done watching a spot on CNBC talking about a Scientologist minister turned Ponzi scheme ochestrator. There's a sucker born every minute. Considering I'm in the investment business (legitimate, registered with FINRA/NASD and the States I conduct business in), I sit there and watch these TV shows on Ponzi schemes and see all the flags. I think to myself, "How do people buy into this cr@p???" One of the comments made by one of the SEC agents that took the guy down was that "in California, what sells big is exclusivity - limited access, 'only a few can get in' type sales pitches".
In a way, that's the pitch the WTBTS and JW's are making to people, and there are still those out there buying it hook, line and sinker. "Narrow is the road leading to everlasting life, and few are the ones traveling it. We know the way. Follow us."
