We all know what toilets are for - the disposing of
waste, dead goldfish, etc.
Now, the Watchtower Society finds charity and compassion
to be highly inconvenient things - giving to the poor
may divert money from their own coffers, compassion might
interfere with obedience to Watchtower rules (those
disfellowshipped relatives!) or acts of loving charity
may inhibit the important work of selling magazines
door to door.
So, they flush these offending qualities away by
emphasizing how unnecessary they are in comparison
to their "ministry" -a "loving" work, warning people that billions
of non-JWS will be "soon" slaughtered by God.
Watch how this process occurs in this weekend's
Watchtower study: pg 16, paragraph 8
"Jehovah's Witnesses are known throughout the world
for their self sacrificing spirit, helping their brothers
and their neighbors and expending themselves to communicate
Bible truth to their fellowmen".
The surrounding pictures give a vague image of helping a person
with medication and loading a truck. Much - indeed, neverending
emphasis is placed on their 'ministry' - but little if any
specific directives are developed on kindness or charity,
showing how little they care about it.
Paragraphs like this one usually elict comments ridiculing
churches for gifts of mercy (like at 9-11) while self
righteous, tragedy exploiting Witnesses "comfort"
victims "with the truth". This kind of "the hell with compassion,
let's do field service instead" carries a price - such as:
Witness children, who rebel, leave home - and leave parents
in tears, wondering how they could have raised such cold-hearted
and mercenary offspring. Do you really have to wonder?
Congregations filled with hate. Think I'm exaggerating? After
years of being an elder, I simply gave up at BEING SHOCKED
at how many Witnesses hated each other. Have you ever felt like giving
up as Theocratic School Overseer because so many sisters WON'T
give talks with any (list 'em) sisters they hate? Ever see Witness
families live NEXT DOOR to each other, but never speak?
When you see a brother arranging groups for service, I can guarantee
he is silently thinking "she won't work with her, he won't work with.."
AND THEN THERE'S THE ELDERS!!!!!! I just couldn't believe the
continuing VENOM that went on DECADE AFTER DECADE between elders
or entire bodies of elders! What I saw and felt was NOT CHRISTIANITY
among brothers - it was unending 'tribalism' like Afghanistan!
It isn't new either - many brothers in Germany ended up in concentration camps because other "faithful servants of Jehovah"
RATTED THEM OUT WILLINGLY!
Congregations filled with mental and emotional illness - God! Is this
ever a perfectly designed SCAM! Take one Witness, fill them with
propaganda and paranoia ("the world is evil and filled with demon
influence"), add generous helpings of guilt, THEN send them out
in an unsuccessful "ministry" where they will become acquainted
with the MOST MARGINAL AND UNSUCCESSFUL members of society (i.e.
the only people who will listen) and WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?
THE PERFECT DECEPTION! Because that Witness is now blind to the
reality of just how SICK members of the average congregation
are! "It's just life in Satan's system of things". Really! I haven't
met ANYONE in my business in the world who secretly cuts themselves,
has multiple personalites, or has secret suburban Satanists for parents!
There's more details in this same vein - just use a little
imagination - I recall the astonishment in Bethel at the contrast
between the religion of Watchtower images - and the harsh,
unreasoning reality of Bethel life - newboys used to note this,
all the time. You may also note zealous elders dumping the
responsibility of sick, aged parents on pliable relatives -
the Society at least tried to counsel on this subject - but with
the unrelenting pressure to score useless hours in a dead ministry,
I think they finally gave up.
In fact, I think the Society has largely abandoned any specifics
on loving Christian behavior because they feel it just makes them
look bad ("just more ammunition for opposers!"). They certainly
haven't given up because everything has improved! How sad -
given the above and their declining revenues, they probably find
that spin doctoring and image manipulation is a lot easier
and more cost effective
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