Successfully Defeating the Watchtower

by metatron 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    The Watchtower is not invincible. They can - and are - suffering various defeats thruout the world. Even in lands where they once
    outlasted fascism, publishers are being lost (France, Japan, Germany,
    Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, etc.) What is the essential key
    to defeating this monolithic cult?

    Patience - and persistent work

    At present, the Witness subculture is a collection of
    deeply held habits - and not, primarily, a rational scheme of doctrines. The Society has largely abandoned the field on doctrinal
    issues - with simple 'cut and paste' articles and superficial
    appeals to obey the "faithful and discreet slave". Even life and
    death issues like blood avoid any depth, revealing the hidden
    bankruptcy of their claims.

    Cults are built on programming, anyway, - and it takes patient
    effort to break down years of unthinking habits. Witness kids
    are a big help here, as they abandon congregations and put pressure
    on Witness parents to stop cult-like behaviors ("have as little
    to do as possible with df'd relatives"). Squeezing in holidays
    helps. too - "we're not celebrating Christmas, just because we
    give a relative a gift!".

    Yes, it takes patience - kind, consistent effort to encourage
    your relatives and friends towards compassion - and away from
    unthinking obedience to an unworthy leadership.

    God speed to silentlambs and all the rest of you,

    Keep chipping away, day after day and year after year!

    metatron

  • Reborn2002
    Reborn2002

    Time is also on our side.

    Considering the fact many of the very prophecies and insinuations that have traveled worldwide from Brooklyn proclaimed the end time was so soon upon us, and the whole 1914 fiasco.. with each passing year it provides further evidence they are indeed a "false prophet"

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  • joelbear
    joelbear

    The Watchtower will be around 500 years from now and we won't. I'd say time is on their side.

    Joel

  • metatron
    metatron

    As long as they are broke, humiliated, and an ignored
    anachronism, it doesn't bother me if they 'are still around'
    500 years from now.

    So much the better, they can serve as an example of failure
    to adapt and act with compassion - a warning to others.

    metatron

  • TR
    TR

    I can't wait until the WTS is where the RCC is right now regarding all the news coverage on molestation issues. That should cause some to think.

    The difference is, the WTS has official polocies that protect wrong doers AND they cover things up.

    TR

    I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
    --Robert Frost, 1935

  • dungbeetle
    dungbeetle

    Joelbear: That's what Hitler said!!!!!

    UADNA-US (Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America-United States)

  • Adonai438
    Adonai438

    Satan's been around for hundreds/thousands of years too- that doesn't mean he's won! The WT may exist but it's mere existance is nothing to be afraid of and is nothing that proves it right. It only began barely over a hundred years ago and thats nothing out of the entire human history . The WT is defeated even now, they just don't get it.

  • Yadirf
    Yadirf

    Adonai438

    The WT is defeated even now, they just don't get it.
    Do you know what the word "defeated" means? Obviously not! ROFLMAO!!!

    .

    Daniel 11:35 ... a KEY prophecy that must be fulfilled before the "time of the end" gets underway.

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost

    Will they be around in 500 years? Dunno, to me that isn't nearly as important as whether we allow the WTS to defeat US. Even if you are no longer associated, does the Watchtower thinking still govern your beliefs? So often we read comments from ones who reveal that they haven't really 'moved on', they've just gone out the door and are standing outside!

    Cheers,
    Ozzie

    "If our hopes for peace are placed in the hands of imperfect people, they are bound to evaporate."

    - Ron Hutchcraft Surviving the Storms of Stress

  • hillary_step
    hillary_step

    Metatron,

    As ever you raise some interesting thoughts.

    I am not quite sure what we all want from the WTS. What does a person mean by 'defeating' the Watchtower?

    Destroying it, selling its buildings, giving the cash back to the people who bought them? I hope not because surely a true conscience would then dictate that we start the same sort of actions against the next control oriented religion, and then the next one...etc.

    Or perhaps defeating it means seeing the more anti-social aspects of their theology rendered harmless. If this is the case, the natural process of theological evolution is taking them into these waters as we speak. We can of course by applying pressure in the *right* places, and I emphasize the *right* places hasten this process, but whatever happens the next couple of decades will see a much changed WTS, changes wrought not so much by XJW’s as the changing society in which we live.

    I am convinced of one thing. That if we allow our experiences with the WTS to trap us in the vacuum between itself and ‘real life’, so that we unable to view our experiences in a wider perspective, then they have defeated us. A person truly defeats the WTS when they are able to gaze upon their excesses in the spirit of analysis rather than anger. It is then that we are better equipped to see our way forward.

    Pain and passion can be beautiful reactions, but they can also be a dark prison for our hearts.

    Best to all - HS

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