Is the Witchtower Religion a "Couples Club"

by hamsterbait 4 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  hamsterbait

  Okay look at the pictures of happy smiling "christians" in the litterature.

  Todays WT study showed a meeting with people wanting to answer.

  How many men? 7. How many women? 7 . You can almost tell who is married to whom. The elderly sister at the RH end of the back row is obviously the mother of the frustrated looking (old enough to be married but still SINGLE Hmmm) brother at the LH end of the front row. He is obviously a sissy as he cannot stand the heat, and has taken off his jacket to reveal an effeminate pink sweater.

  Look at articles on socialising. usually you can tell who is married to whom, by racial extraction, or age. Occasionally an elderly single woman, or other obviously single person is included in a patronising attempt to say "we care about you being lonely."

  (This last when they are saying now that on family worship night single people should be at home on their own studying.)

  "OCCASIONALLY a family might invite a single person to share with them on Family Study Night" they said.

  I defy anyone to go through the magazines and find more pictures of the congo and gatherings where this is NOT the case.

  No wonder that single people are viewed as having something wrong with them. On article actually suggested that the elders should be alert to single brothers who get on well with children. (Most molestors are older married men.)

  I only started to realise what a marriage and breeding cult this is when I noticed that in the Gilead graduation photos, they had stopped including single people, even before they had announced the policy of only taking married couples.

  In the Lala Land of the WT Society if you are single nobody wants you.

  HB
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  LongHairGal

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  Dudu

  But at the same time they encourage singleness ........ crazy ah?
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  Quendi

  I know that the WTS and its religion are hostile to single people. I once chastised an elder for always talking about his wife and family when citing examples about how the religion affects people's lives. "There are many single people in this congregation who can't identify with your examples," I told him. I might as well have been talking to a brick wall for all the good it did.

  Not only is the organization hostile to single people, its take on family life is severely distorted. While purporting to use the Bible as the basis for its teachings on family life, the organization actually promotes the kind of view American television featured more than fifty years ago. It is plain that neither the Governing Body nor the senior editorial staff in Brooklyn have a clue about the realities single people have to face, and it is also equally plain that they don't want to find out.

  Quendi
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  NewChapter

  I thought it was. I regularly lost friends when they married. They have an image to keep up, and had to then push their husbands to reach out for privileges. This left very little time for true friendship, as suddenly, if they wanted to BE an elder's wife, they had to hang out with elders' wives.

  I complained about it to a friend, especially after losing my best friend ever to marriage, and she said that was normal. But the thing is, it didn't feel normal to me. I was not raised in the "truth" so I'd had many friends who married, and then I married. I kept those friends!

  This cult does not promote healthy relationships. They have to spend all their time talking about marriage and family because the pressures they put on those institutions is breaking them. And did you ever notice how they always referred to single sisters as some poor downtrodden group that needed to be invited over for dinner and on family vacations? It got offensive at times, as though we have no option but to be lonely. I was divorced and happy to be so. I travelled and had fun, and enjoyed my freedom. But in their eyes, I needed invites. LOL

  NC