Junk Dubbie mail from my dear Dad (who I have quite a good relationship with, as I can ignore stuff like THIS);
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SUBJECT: Satan's convention----Theme: "Keep Them Busy"
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said. "We can't keep the Witnesses from going to the Kingdom Hall. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. However, if they gain that connection with Jehovah, our power over them is broken, we have lost. So let them go to their Kingdom Halls; let them have their conventions and assemblies, but steal their time, so they can't gain that elationship with Jehovah. This is what I want you to do, angels: ‘Distract them from gaining hold of Jehovah and maintaining that vital connection with him throughout their day!’
"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," Satan answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work! Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV,VCR,DVD,CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-Biblical music constantly. Get the people and kids we control to keep sending text messages so they will answer and get the habit and spend hours even in school time texting. This will jam their minds and break that union with Jehovah."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogues, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional, offering free products and services and false hopes. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines so the husbands will believe that external beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. And the young unmarried men will waste time wandering around looking for a more beautiful girl than the last one they saw and get so bewildered we will be able to trap them.”
“Ha! That will fragment those families quickly! Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquiet and unprepared for the meetings. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, theatres, the ballet, opera, movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions.”
“Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning; but crowd their lives
with so many good causes and these other things that they have no time to seek power from Jehovah. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family. And then we will have won. It will work! It will work!"
It was quite a convention. The evil angels went eagerly to their
assignments, causing Witnesses everywhere to be busy, busy, busy and
more rushed, going here and there.
But I guess the question we should ask is this: Has the Devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge! Does "busy" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atans Y-oke? Are YOU too BUSY?
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Isn't thant just really really vile?