When I read things like this from the Watchtower, I swear the Org. is mocking outsiders by demonstrating how much control they have over the rank and file because they know the rank and file don't see what we see. It's as if they do it on purpose... "Direct the Minds" is not mind control!!!! How can the rank and file miss that!!!
Did the Watchtower just admit to MIND-CONTROL?
by pharmer 17 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Aussie Oz
Not just... long done!
But it is great to see it in print.
better get a paper copy before the 1980s disapear off the CD
Oz
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pharmer
Nice Atlantis -- thanks for the actual image!
And thank you all for the comments. I find these things disturbing -- just amazing. Also, in that same paragraph, it looks to me that their message is -- One shouldn’t question JW teachings and one shouldn’t just read the Bible.
It appears, mind-control is the glue that binds.
On occasion opposers will question the various teachings that Jehovah’s people hold in common .
….They will declare that all one needs to do is to read the Bible.
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DonutZ!
Dang did they really say that? Wow!
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punkofnice
Well, they said it in one of my favourite quotes...........if you use the formula mind = brain & clanse = wash!
(Watchtower, June 1, 1953, p. 350 par. 24). 24 In these closing days of wickedness Jehovah’s people must demonstrate holiness. They must not foul their minds with the filthy mental food on the propaganda tables of this old world, but must feed on the feast of fat things Jehovah provides. (Isa. 25:6; 28:8.) Minds must be cleansed and made over, mental circuits formed by old-world thinking and acting faded out and new ones put in according to new-world specifications. By privately studying regularly, by attending all meetings regularly, and by engaging in all features of the preaching work regularly mental circuits are deepened and such good activities become habitual, not at all the struggle they are when the mental circuits are weak and faint because used only occasionally. For ourselves and for others, make them strong!—1 Tim. 4:16.
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Joepublisher1
Oh, yes. I recall Watchtower study articles like this. I was a zealous newbie, starting in 1980. Many of those early 1980's articles dealt with the "great apostasy" that Randy Watters has written extensively on [from his vantage point in Bethel]. Our congregation had some VERY strong families (pios., elders, bethelites, etc.) in our New England congregation that were greatly effected by this and left the so-called "truth". I remember how Ray Franz was demonized! At the time, I thought he was Fred Franz's brother - which totally blew my mind. I couldn't understand why he left "the truth". (Most JWs didn't [and don't] know the names of the Governing Body.)
I remember the D.C.'s [in the early 80s] in Providence RI highlighting how these apostates went back to believing in The Trinity and such. Of course, like this Watchtower article, it was emphasized how reading the Bible alone is not sufficient. I remember thinking how odd that sounds, but my brainwashed mind accepted that we needed the faithful and discreet slave class to explain things. As a matter of fact, perhaps many of you remember how talks at the D.C. said we would never understand truths [such as Russel putting the hose on hellfire] had it not been for the faithful and discreet slave.
I was proud that I wouldn't read or listen to any of the non-sense from apostates. I remember being visited by an old-time friend - who heard I became a JW. Apparently, he wanted to see with his eyes that this was true. Later, he sent me a letter revealing many things that I NEVER heard about JWs [like miracle wheat, Beth-Sarim, etc.]. I blocked it all as total non-sense, ripped the letter up and threw it away!
My "thinking mind" always thought it was odd that the WTS leaders put more emphasis on the authority of the WTS literature OVER the Bible, but I accepted the Faithful and Discreet slave teaching. Of course, Don Cameron's book, Captive of a Concept, deals nicely with that erroneous concept!
What's so interesting is that looking back on these printed statements, it becomes perfectly clear that the WTS leaders were in such a fire-fighting mode against the apostates, that they didn't realize how very revealing their comments would be years [/decades] later.
As always, the WTS has burnt itself so many times by "printing" statements that cannot be erased. Of course, faithful JW's will do some dancing about what the WTS article meant, but it's quite clear what the WTS was saying back then [and today as well]! The WTS leaders do NOT want JWs to think ON THEIR OWN! JW's minds must be directed by the WTS leaders IF they are to be acceptable to Jehovah, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE MORE MISTAKES IN THEIR RELIGIOUS DOCTRINE THEN YOU CAN COUNT. And, Fred Franz's COC book reveals the shocking inner-workings of the Governing Body, something most JWs don't understand. (i.e. Voting for the accepted interpretation of scripture?!?! - what happened to the Holy Spirit's direction??? Putting JW's own dogma above the Bible, etc.)
I just don't understand how the Governing Body can live with their own conscience - they must be in serious denial about the tarnished history of their teachings. Of course, they can't say anything, or else they'll find themselves on the street with little-to-no opportunity to survive financially!
Many, many JWs have observed a lack of zeal in their congregations and many of them are reading things about JWs on the internet. So many put on a front [to fellow JWs], but are totally dis-illusioned about the religion that they "thought" was "the truth". The real truth about JWs can hurt and cause pain for so many one-time very faithful JWs. The leaders need to get real and admit that they are NOT who they say they are and allow their member to move on with their lives, instead of being held in limbo by constantly holding a carrot [paradise] in front of their face. It's just plain wrong and worse, it's cruel!
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Mad Sweeney
They suck. I hate the Borg.
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