by frankiespeakin 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
like holding on to a wet bar of soap, too loose and it slips away, too tight and it slips away.
people stay out of fear and comfort, take either away and people leave. The WT CORP is not worth the pain, and certainly NOT worth the suffering!
"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional..." - Zen aphorism
I think we need to factor into the equation that the Governing Body are all past midlife or aleast in the midlife crisis stage of life, they have repetative thinking, they have been operating most of thier lives under this delusion, so giving up the delusion doesn't seem to be in the cards for the body as a whole but perhaps 1 or 2 could come to grips with it.
We can see by what is printed in the WT and in their talks posted on the internet that they are pretty far out there in the logic they use along with magical thinking, and projections of the Devil everywhere. Perhaps also some hardening of the arteries to the brain, along with some uncontrollable urges from the unconscious in the form of fruedian slips, banging into wall, neurosis, and what not.
I'm thinking it is going to be quite a ride for these gentle men, as they try and circumnavigate the Corporation to safer waters before it sinks into oblivian.
As an illness, neurosis represents a variety of mental disorders in which emotional distress or unconscious conflict is expressed through various physical, physiological, and mental disturbances, which may include physical symptoms (e.g., hysteria). The definitive symptom is anxieties. Neurotic tendencies are common and may manifest themselves asdepression, acute or chronic anxiety, obsessive–compulsive tendencies, specific phobias, such as social phobia, arachnophobia or any number of other phobias, and somepersonality disorders: paranoid, schizotypal, borderline, histrionic, avoidant, dependent and obsessive–compulsive . It has perhaps been most simply defined as a "poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to change one's life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more complex, more satisfying personality." [7] Neurosis should not be mistaken for psychosis, which refers to loss of touch with reality, or neuroticism, a fundamental personality trait according to psychological theory.
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the old farts would completely screw it up. Just have a videocamera handy.
Dogz
Freddie Franz was great at coming up with original loony ideas and explanations, complete with shockingly backwards logic which confounded and dazzled Watchtards like me.
Now that they don't have that oracle any longer, it seems (to me) the looniness factor isn't there (except for what they copy and paste from Freddie) and they now feel desperation and rule with a Solomon/Rehoboam-like iron fist. They don't seem to have any other card in their hand.
Construction at Warwick is really ramping up. Workers from Brooklyn are going to be bussed up to Warwick each day, workers from the farm, regional, and volunteer. The only delusional people are the flock paying for it. For the GB it's a reality, in a couple years they are going to have their country club on the lake in Warwick, and the money will continue to roll in from their many businesses, conventions, real estate, publishing... Hudson Valley NY
Thinking about the personalities of the Governing Body as expressed in their talks Samuel Herd's talk about "Feeding Many With the Hands of A Few" have tremendous leaps of logic and merely anecdotal, I think his psyche runs on anecdotal overdrive bound to cause problem for him in the way of how he sees the world.
I think Stephen Lett has paranoia over strangers, or strange voices of Appostates, he is highly steeped in magical thinking, extreme black and white thinking everything is all or nothing, These talks by the Governing Body reveal a lot of what goes on in their mind and how they think.
Listen to his crazy views of the world and talking snakes get a load of how he veiws information that proves his delusion is a fantasy,, he views it as garbage and not to be even listened to. He is definitely paranoid. He sees boogiemen every where I tell ya, and he's the type of guy that would strip down naked in public if he thought his clothes were posessed by demons.
These paranoid delusion have power over people if they listen to him as an authority and so they catch the delusion themselves and are guided by it.
Remember in "Life of PI" near the beginning, where it says that an animal in a Zoo will happily stay in its pen as long as it has its needs for food etc fulfilled.
When they do try to escape it is not because they are looking for something better outside. Something in their pen makes them uncomfortable or frightened and they are trying to get away from it.
The people who leave are unhappy or uncomfortable. As long as the Gibbering buddy thinks that beating the sheeples will improve morale the bleeding away of members will continue, and accelerate.
HB
Ham,
I think deep down inside they are making Corporate decisions which in their delusional state they equate making decisions for Jehovah, they have blurred the lines between the two so much that they can't tell the difference in between Jehovah thoughts and their own minds thoughts anymore. Listening to their talks it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I'm sure they have weighed the mathamatics, pro's and con's of beating the flock into submission by increase disfellowshipping or showing a more kinder attitude towards those that transgress their eddicts, and choosen the present course because of the fact that thier imaginary Jehovah is a tyrrant and that they would loose even more member if kinder.
That seems to be the twisted way they think. Life is not as precious as the welfare of the Corporation.
Analysing the Borg's future this way supposes that the world will simply go on pretty much as it always has.
that's not gonna happen. Things are gonna get weird and radical. They are old wineskins waiting to burst.
metatron
