A Point About Witnesses That Needs Repeating

by metatron 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  Once upon a time, many years ago, Bethel - and the factory in particular - was a nasty, sweatshop hellhole. They could hardly keep up with all the young guys leaving. Bad attitudes were everywhere.

  In response, most guys complained, blew off steam, drank beer and chased hot sisters. Not all of them, though...

  There were always a few guys labeled "Self Righteous" who zealously avoided all such (normal) 'wrongdoing' and fanatically pressed on in their 'integrity'. And they all had one thing in common.....

  They didn't last. Almost to a man, these guys 'broke' often suddenly. Some had nervous breakdowns and left.

  So, the next time you hear about how ordinary publishers are thrilled with all of the downsizing and cutbacks, consider that they may be lying to themselves and everyone else. They may break unexpectedly after reaching the end of their rope - and they may be fakes, entirely.

  The Watchtower ignores its own history, to its peril.

  metatron
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  Finkelstein

  The Watchtower ignores its own history, to its peril

  But it does know to keep the power and control.
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  Phizzy

  Interesting observation Met, I was never in Bethel, never had the slightest inclination, but I did observe over the years a similar phenomenon, which was the self-righteous Super-Publisher, who did inordinate quantities of F.S , they often broke after a while, not leaving, but slacking off badly.

  Such ones often had a skeleton in the cupboard of some sort, bad marriage or somessuch, and they tried to compensate with huge amounts of door knocking, didn't help them though.
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  Borges

  A good observation. I remember one guy in german bethel, who was so fanatic that he wanted to leave the car, if the driver passed the speed limit just a little. And sometimes he actually did. Then he left bethel all of a sudden. A few month he later he rushed in the monday evening watchtowerstudy with a big sign in his hand, that said something like "I was a slave of the wachtower" or similar. He tried to escape the brothers from the standby duty by running through the big kingdomhall. Finally they fetched him and walked him out.

  In my oppinion a lot of these overzealous guys in bethel have kind of a mental problem, that they try to compensate by beeing an 150 percent witness and bethelite. That might work for a certain amount of time. But not forever. When these guys break, very often they break for good.

  But I don't think you can draw conclusions from these observations to the witnesses in general.
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  ÁrbolesdeArabia

  DITTO DITTO DITTO! Brilliant Metatron!!!!!!!!!!