by stillin 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
What did people on this forum expect?
This could have been the AGM of any organization, secular or religious, anywhere in the Western world.
It could have been a shareholders meeting.
An AGM is neither the time nor the place for the main players to make significant changes or disturb the masses.
The singular aim is to reassure investors the stock is healthy and what needs to be done to ensure it remains healthy .
Well said, Steve. The timing was point-on with the structural changes, too, or should I say the "new understanding?"
"Sure, we told you all that we are the next best thing to God Himself, but look at us! We aren't so bad, in fact you could actually come to LIKE us once God puts us in a position of absolute authority"
An AGM is neither the time nor the place for the main players to make significant changes or disturb the masses.
Yeah apart from the past 4 years when we had:
2010 - overlapping generation
2011 - don't know what
2012 - GB now the faithful slave
2013 - new Bible
All at the AGM
Have you been sleeping?
But slimboy, that's just it. Nobody is disturbed! If anything they're more comfortable than ever. As I said in another post, I left the "event" with a measure of sadness that it isn't true!
SBF said: Yeah apart from the past 4 years when we had:
2010 - overlapping generation
2011 - don't know what
2012 - GB now the faithful slave
2013 - new Bible
All at the AGM
Have you been sleeping?
I should have been more specific: With the exception of the "overlapping generations" refinement (which some local witnesses in New Zealand still insist is nothing new), there have been no major changes at AGMs. The presentations were largely upbeat and positive (from the Witnesses' perspective that is).
Stillin said-
But slimboy, that's just it. Nobody is disturbed! If anything they're more comfortable than ever. As I said in another post, I left the "event" with a measure of sadness that it isn't true!
Yup, it's a seductive lure that JWs dangle in front of people, and it's told with such conviction and sincerity that it's a very convincing message. You're almost mourning your inability to swallow a great-big lie, it's THAT powerful of a message.
The old saying is that the most convincing liars are those who don't even REALIZE they're lying, and combined with a listener who wants to believe the same tantalizing message and you've got a recipe for a self-perpetuating system which gets larger as it attracts more like-minded members. Recruits self-select to JOIN the group, and it's child's play to get some people to believe what they want to believe.
The system exploits the weakness of humans who don't understand that the claims they should be questioning most are those they most WANT to be true, and not the claims they are most-prone to reject.
Adam
OUTLAW - You nailed, as you ALWAYS do!
