Is The New Governing Body Friendless At Bethel? Loneliness At The Top Of The Heap

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  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FLa_F85VQ

    All of the currant GB are Newbies and I'm sure not well liked at bethel by those who were close to the passed away old guard. Mark Sanderson was baptised 02/1975 and many bethelites were there at bethel longer than he has been baptised this has got to have caused some jealous feelings among older ones there and perhaps such a newbie claimette to the annointed class maybe causeing others to seriously consider themselves annointed. I'm thinking that many of the Governing Body are feeling very insecure there at Bethel, I think the new understanding in the 7/15/2013 WT giving these Governing Body Newbies exclusive authority over the rank and file is an expression of this insecurity and an effort to silence any critics inside their constituency about official teachings of the GB, as they hold claim to an exclusive priviledge to teach unchalleged by any person claiming to be annointed among the r&f.

    I feel the Governing Body has thus further isolated themselves from everyone at bethel by this new teaching putting themselves at the top chain of command and unable to be challenged. So those smilling faces they have greeting them every day at headquarters are an illusion and most of the GB must know that by now. They have created a climate of fear in this grab for undisputed power over all of jehovah's Witnesses, behind the smiles that greet them are the dark emotions of fear, jealousy, and probably outright hate.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhmrnYbIVqs

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governing_Body_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses

    Current

    As of September 2012, the following people are members of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses [ 7 ] (year appointed in parentheses):

    [edit] Deceased

    The following individuals were members of the Governing Body until death (years active in parentheses, including years as Watch Tower Society directors, informally identified as the "governing body" prior to 1971):

    [edit] Resigned

    The following individuals resigned or were asked to step down from their positions in the body (years active in parentheses):

  • sir82
    sir82
    I'm sure not well liked at bethel by those who were close to the passed away old guard.
    I'm thinking that many of the Governing Body are feeling very insecure there at Bethel
    I feel the Governing Body has thus further isolated themselves from everyone at bethel

    You sure do an awful lot of speculation for someone who's never lived at Bethel and has never met any of the people you are talking about.

  • slimboyfat
    slimboyfat

    Does it get more untenable as each generation replaces the last, or do they simply get used to the routine of it all?

    Resentment between new "anointed" and old "non-anointed" is over half a century old now. Look at Covington, who resented having to give up his position because he was not "anointed". That was way back in the 1940s and 1950s.

  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-freud/201106/its-lonely-the-top

    It's Lonely At The Top

    Business leaders are often isolated and lonely.

    By Lawrence D. Blum, M.D.

    Corporate and small business Chief Executives are accustomed to obtaining the best information, consultation, and help available for everything - except themselves. Yet it's lonely at the top. CEOs have innumerable problems to consider and decisions to make, but it can be difficult for them to candidly discuss their thoughts, concerns, and doubts with others. They may have little training to do this; they may hesitate to discuss their doubts with people who report to them; and they may be quite hesitant to talk with other CEOs, who may be, or talk with. The difficulties of the long-sought position and the struggles over making decisions can themselves be difficult to acknowledge.

    Most models of decision-making are based on rational calculations, e.g., given certain assumptions, what is the expected rate of return on an investment? The model is fine, except that so many assumptions are just that - assumptions, inevitably made with inadequate information and colored by unrecognized wishes and fears. Projections are often unrealistically rosy or grim - they are made by humans, and since when are people rational? Economists have recently begun to win important prizes for recognizing that people, consumers for example, don't make decisions on a rational basis. This realization is no surprise to those familiar with psychoanalysis, our most thorough method of studying the irrational mind.

  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2011/10/are-men-lonely-at-top.html

    Are Men Lonely at the Top?

    I am reading a new book called Lonely at the Top: The High Cost of Men's Success written by psychologist Thomas Joiner. Initially I thought that this was just another book undermining men's success by proclaiming that if men are successful at work, they can be setting themselves up for loneliness and suicide by middle-age or beyond. This negative interpretation of men's success seems to pop up in the media and culture from time to time to punish men for not being "more like women."

    That said, while I felt that Joiner's book subtlety promoted the message that if you are male and "on top," you would suffer for it, he also had some good ideas about how men could improve their mental health and did seem to have some empathy for his fellow man. He gives an example of his clinical treatment with a man who was depressed every November and couldn't figure out why. It turns out that 14 years ago, in November, his wife had left him after giving birth to their son. The man had been confused, never grieved her loss and instead, sunk into a depression. Once he understood what had happened and worked through the loss, the depression lifted.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot
    frankiespeakin - "...I'm thinking that many of the Governing Body are feeling very insecure there at Bethel, I think the new understanding in the 7/15/2013 WT...is an expression of this insecurity..."

    Makes sense to me.

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    Why are you wasting time feeling sorry for them? They have people kissing their asses all day long. I'm sure that's a good enough substitute for friendship -- otherwise they'd do something about making friends.

  • dog is god
    dog is god

    When a woman JW asked me what issues I had with the borg. I said #1 women are not even 3rd class. #2 you give all power to those guys in New York and you probably don't even know their name, their history, education etc. Yet you give them permission to tell you how to dress, how to keep your yard, how you speak, what to read, where your money goes etc. They handle billions of dollars and you don't know where it goes, what political affiliations exist, off shore accts. etc. She shunned me. Which is quite alright.

  • frankiespeakin
    frankiespeakin

    Hort,

    Why are you wasting time feeling sorry for them? They have people kissing their asses all day long. I'm sure that's a good enough substitute for friendship -- otherwise they'd do something about making friends.

    I don't think I feel sorry for them, well maybe a little and mainly because they are human. What I am trying to do is to know my enemies, how they think, what are their goals, what trips them up, their fears, their aloofness, their aloneness, who they can trust, who they can't, what pressures they up against, what are their blind sides, anything that will give us an upper hand in dealing with these people.

    So any sorry I feel for these guys is tempered by my awareness of the evil they do in misleading people to obey them.

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