sammielee24 said: The seeds were set - I know the article is coming up - the concluson is now going to be - how could he claim I might be reading literature considered apostate - when the WT comes out with information that IS apostatate from his point of view. How will he deal with that?
ADCMS: On the surface your argument makes sense. However, this same exact scenario has played out recently on other issues with no effect on JWs.
Last year, after the release of the "Become Jehovah's Friend" cartoon DVD at the District Convention, it was immediately posted on Youtube. To a person, all the JWs who watched it insisted it was a fake, a parody created by apostates to make the WT Society look bad. It was denounced as silly, ridiculous, certainly nothing that the WT would ever produce. Then, when those same JWs received their copy at the DC, two responses were elicited: 1) dead silence, 2) those same critics now declared the video a "blessing from Jehovah", 'how wonderful', 'the GB certainly is giving us wholesome spiritual food'. The critics suddenly forgot they were denouncing it recently as stupid, apostate propoganda
There was another recent post on JWN regarding a doctrinal point highlighted at the 2012 DC. An Elder and his wife argued that the point was never said in the program, and that the JW that told them about it was promoting "apostate" ideas. That same JW located a recording of that demonstration on the program and played it for the Elder and his wife. After hearing for themselves that it was a WT teaching and was indeed on the DC program, the couple suddenly "forgot" they labelled it as an apostate teaching and went on to defend it (because now they knew it came from WT, so magically it was no longer "apostate").
There is no way to get around the devotion the average JW has to the Organization. Your Elder brother will either forget that he called this new information "apostate" or he will rationalize around it. You'll never break through that JW mindset with logic.
Look at how many radical "new light" changes have occurred during the WT's history. Sure, some leave the Org. over it, but most will accept whatever nonsense the GB dishes out and praise it as "food at the proper time". The sad fact is a Jehovah's Witness is going to believe whatever they want to believe- regardless of how much evidence exists to the contrary. Furthermore, I am convinced most JWs really don't care if their beliefs are true. The governing body insists all JWs must accept every WT teaching without question, and sadly, most JWs are just fine with that. You will not convince someone to change their mind or think critically if they really are not very passionate about the truthfullness of their beliefs in the first place.
UnConfused said: What's the new light in the July 15th WT?
ADCMS: are you being serious?
"No way! That's great! We've landed on the moon!" - Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber, 1994
