Great thread. Must read.
You Can Overcome WT Phobias!
by leavingwt 54 Replies latest jw friends
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Dogpatch
"New Light" on the URL: (same article)
Dogz
Try out this one for yer breakfast:
STOP being naive - the time has come to use your PRIMAL SENSES
A lot of us spend a great deal of time on discussion boards and elsewhere discussing the intricate doctrines of the
Watch Tower as if they were legitimate arguments from the Bible.One of these is the issue of blood and blood transfusion.
Another is "Who is the Faithful and Discreet Slave?"
or "What is the definition of "generation" given in the Bible, so we can prove the Witnesses wrong?
Time to stop and think what you are doing.
We discuss when and why people should be shunned or how they should be treated if they disagree with the Bible or the Watch Tower organization.
or "When did the 2520 years of the 'Gentile Times' begin?"
When was the destruction of Jerusalem, 587 or 607 BCE?
All of these discussions are important for those questioning the Watch Tower machine.
They can be quite valuable, and I am not dismissing the importance of them in certain contexts.
But usually the most oft-missed elephant in the room is,
WHY ARE WE DISCUSSING UNIQUE AND QUACKY DOCTRINES OF ONE OR TWO MEN WHO INVENTED THEM?
Don't you realize that doctrines are invented ON PURPOSE by SINGLE INDIVIDUALS living in their monk-like seclusion at the Watch Tower headquarters for control reasons, and NOT INVENTED by ALL at WT headquarters, but one or two men? Then the others VOTE on how useful that doctrinal change will be to keep the organization afloat?
Organizations will do anything to stay alive; individual issues like HONESTY and INTEGRITY are explained away using MORE DOCTRINE. People are expendable along the way. "Jehovah's Organization must be vindicated!"
Baloney. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Think.
Where did the idea of Jesus having an invisible return come from? Charles Taze Russell. And no doubt he borrowed that from some dissenting early Adventist who tried to reason his way out of why Jesus DIDN'T RETURN in 1844 or 1874. So millions of people spend decades arguing over a stupid idea that no one in the history of Christianity had bothered themselves with for 2000 years. Why? Because Jesus made it pretty plain how he would come back.
Millions argue whether the Bible condemns the transfusion of blood. Why? If it wasn't for two men living at Bethel, Fred Rusk and Gene Smalley, who currently invent all the little changes in blood fractions that can/cannot be used in a life-threatening situation, it would not be argued at all!
But who ever would have bothered themselves with such a question had not the Watch Tower INVENTED this doctrine back around the 40s, only 30 years after Pastor Russell plainly agreed that even EATING BLOOD was not a law unto Christians, and the Apostle Paul pointed out that Christians are NO LONGER UNDER LAW, AND IF YOU INSIST ON OBEYING LAWS AS AN ISSUE OF SALVATION that you put Christ back on the cross and are forever damned, all the time thinking you are being pious? That's what the "doctors of the Law" did, the Pharisees. Jesus said they were going to hell in a handbasket, because they were blinded to the simple, primal issues.
REMEMBER THIS AND DON'T EVER FORGET IT: The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania is NOT GOD. It is a worldly organization consisting of isolated, poorly-educated control-freaks that INVENT UNIQUE DOCTRINES to make themselves look different, and therefore more pious, than all others who call themselves Christians. Wow, that's really a new phenomena! NOT.
If you don't get the point, look at another "Christian" cult that has inane doctrines like the Mormons or Christian Scientists; doctrines that are SO IMPORTANT to their members and ex-members that they will argue over them for decades, just like us?
We laugh and dismiss their argumentation as a waste of time, because they can't see the forest for the trees.
Well maybe neither can you.
We can't see the old Wizard behind the curtain pulling levers and pushing buttons. We cower in fear. MAYBE THE ORGANIZATION IS RIGHT! OMG!
So what exempted Toto from being afraid of the Wizard, unlike Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion?
Probably just his nose! He smelled A MAN behind the curtain.
The rest were being duped by their own minds. It's just like doctrine.
Doctrine has origins. Why do we not use our common senses to look behind the curtain first? Because we are not trained to do so.
Because we don't understand how magicians perform their slight-of-hand and mind trickery.
Even a DOG can be smart enough to see through the trickery of men.
Learn to use your common senses before you go off arguing logic and the invisibles that you cannot taste, see or feel.
Practically every Bethelite learns this lesson their first year or so; those in control are simply old men with a hunger for power and position. No Bethelite leaves fearing the Watch Tower organization unless they are duped by guilt and ignorance. They have seen who pulls the levers and pushes the buttons. There is nothing divine or miraculous to it.
What To Do?
Put your nose to the ground. Learn simple principles of common sense. Study magic, study mind control, study anthropology and human nature. Simple things that can be easily demonstrated.
Then you won't waste 10 years of your life wondering when the Paradise will appear, and when will Jehovah Dog destroy all the wicked who won't obey Gene Smalley and Fred Rusk because they took a blood transfusion.
With that in mind, we will go on Monday or Tuesday to discuss blood transfusions and why the Watch Tower has no argument to stand on, now that our noses are a little sharper. :-))
Two or three experts on the subject will hopefully satisfy your mind, and the scarecrows who are left can quit fearing Gene Smalley and Fred Rusk, and get a life. Then you can go play in the grass and have fun with Toto.
Randy
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notjustyet
I just love this place, thanks Leavingwatchtower, and others for your input, marking.
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00DAD
Dogpatch: So what exempted Toto from being afraid of the Wizard, unlike Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion? Probably just his nose! He smelled A MAN behind the curtain.
The nose knows!
Good quote Dogpatch. Very clever!!!
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Dogpatch
yes OODAD,
The nose knows...
aka, our own built-in bull$hit detectors, set to bypass words and read a person like a dog would.
Randy