After listening/reading to Psycho...er, um, ehhh...Ciro's blah blah blah.....something clicked in my head.
I'll be upfront and admit that these questions may be "reaching" for something. But, considering a possibility, had the WTBTS intentionally joined the U.N. as an NGO, to provoke a anti-JW stance from the U.N.?
Consider the questions that are floating in my skull.
Why would an organization who is publicly critical of the U.N., with it's propaganda aimed negatively at the U.N., join the U.N. in the first place? Knowing full well, that's it's negative campaign against the U.N. would provoke a negative reaction from the U.N.?
Could the GB of the WTBTS be setting this up upon themselves, so that they may come out to thier "flock" and say: "See? Didn't we say the U.N. would go against us"? Thus proving a point of the World vs. JW's doctrine? (thus again, proving their human intervention vs. divine intervention).
I have yet come across anything that the WTBTS has issued to explain any involvement with the U.N. Other then what I've read in the Guardian about the library card excuse. Great number of their followers dont even know about the NGO situation. I dont have any "facts" to provide, in situations involving members who've come across the NGO involvement. Does anyone have any "cold hard" evidence that members of JW's who've inquired the NGO involvement, and have been PA'd or DF'd...or told to keep "silent"? This may be of valuable research, if done correctly.
Consider all you X-JW's the impact upon the current member JW's...of one small, tiny criticism coming from the U.N. about the WTBTS. They would blow it so out of whack for their purpose, dressing it up as the end-all-be-all of their religion. Consider the moderate power they currently have over congregations, this would intensify their power to stellar levels. And how? By a clever and decietful setup.
Then again, I could be reading in to something that's not there. But as a student in my current field, one has to question multiple possibilities. I'd be interested in your opinions.
D8TA
(ps. I have this dark secret fault I'd like to share....the word: Their. I tend to spell it Thier sometimes...so forgive me. Heh heh.)
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