Latest May 2012 Watchtower: "JW wives must be more lovable"

by cedars 66 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  bats in the belfry

  A Christian who marries an unbeliever is not exemplary and lacks real appreciation for God’s gift of marriage.
  
  
  
  was given independent of any religious affiliations (Genesis 2:22) and had nothing to do with a real or imagined appreciation. A gift is defined as something that is bestowed voluntarily and without compensation.
  
  
  
  

  "This gift and blessing of marriage is also an evidence of God’s impartiality and of his justice. How so? In that these joys of marriage, when God is in it, do not depend upon such mundane things as material wealth, a higher education, great physical strength or beauty of form and feature. Neither are marital blessings limited to any race or nationality, nor are they dependent upon any climate. Whether couples live in the polar regions or in the tropics makes no difference."

  w81 7/1 pp. 12-13 par. 4 / Let God Be in Your Marriage

  Also, their belief system is that successful marriages and united families are only achieved by pecking order:
  
  “Family comes from L[atin] familia, orig[inally] the servants and slaves of a great house, then the house itself with master, mistress, children—and the staff.” — Origins — A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, by Eric Partridge.

  w93 9/1 p. 15 / The Christian Family Does Things Together
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  besunny

  This is the kind of crap that kept me mentally trapped in an abusive marrige for almost 20 yr.s,,,when an incident would happen the so called truth would always have the wife question her own thoughts and behavior,,I'm soooo freaking sick of this,,,and this was the main cause of me leaving JW's,,,,,,what was the likelyhood of a brother coming along and wanting to marry a sister with 3 kids that had some behavoir issues due to seeing abuse for all their young lives,,well there was the alternitive of being single the rest of my life,,,well bullshit,,,I found a wonderful man now and we got married and I have shared all these things with him and he thinks it's terrible that a religion would teach this stuff to their people and if that is being disobedient to God then so be it.
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  designs

  besunny- You found your inner power

  maisha- 'reverse cowboy interlock' Joe needs to go to the Watchtower Study and explain that
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  punkofnice

  More control freakery from our lil' fwends the WBT$!

  and that requires that she be lovable.

  What does this even mean? They've just given a host of reasons that marriage can't be fun.

  What next? Arranged marriages?

  Have they been reading this?

  
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  wannabefree

  Perhaps certain members of the Writing Department use magazine aricles to counsel their own wives.
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  designs

  1955
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  hamsterbait

  So lets get one thing straight:

  Married couples must avoid doing perverted things when jehoobie is in there with them.

  Aren't threeways perverted? Doesnt that make their god a perve to start with?

  HB
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  breakfast of champions

  What did Woody Allen say.. . something like, "Sex is dirty only if you're doing it right."

  Probably won't find that quote in the mags. . .
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  sd-7

  I was just thinking of how they reiterated that "extreme physical abuse" is a ground for separation. Just thinking...the fact that "physical abuse" alone doesn't cut it is pretty disturbing. So if a husband comes home and slaps you around every so often, but doesn't leave any marks, that's perfectly fine and you can't separate, I guess. He has to be trying to kill you, I gather, before the elders will ok a separation...that term is just vague and the implications about how the GB feels about abuse are yet again reiterated...

  It's natural that women who are in this emotionally abusive environment of the WT are going to end up taking it out on someone. The kids, me, and so on. Just an absence of hitting, berating, and throwing tantrums over minor matters just to get attention would be enough to qualify as "more lovable" in my book...

  --sd-7
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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite

  "It is natural that a Christian husband loves his wife and wants to protect her."

  Natural? I take issue with that statement. "Christian husbands" were reminded in the scriptures to love their wives and provide for their families. Why would they need to be told that if it was already "natural". Too many JW husbands didn't seem to really know what "love" was. I think it was often a word that they would use to get their wives to assume the position. JW men are really encouraged to put the "organization" first. Let me correct that statement:

  "It is natural that a Christian husband loves his wife the prestige and position of slaving as a WT elder and wants to protect her generally neglects his wife and children, unless it's a "family study" where the parents both count the time with the unbaptized children."

  Better?