Who owns the power to control outcome?
The answer is: Authority.
Who automatically has the right answers?
The answer is: Experts.
Who can force automatic reactions of compliance?
The answer is: the ones displaying authority, power and control.
Who can be expected to automatically obey, comply and submit?
The answer is: those under the Authority of others.
All Authority is really composed of the principle of "this for that." (Reciprocity.)
Authority wants something and offers something in return.
Example:
Government demands taxes, but offers highways, military protection and regulations for health and safety.
No authority exists without reciprocity. (Give to get.)
(Note: Even God wants love, praise, worship and obedience in exchange for everlasting life, forgiveness and happiness.)
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Now that we have reviewed the dynamic of a power structure we are better able to understand
how to reverse-engineer the entire process to our own benefit.
Introducing the PIVOT or "turning the tables" on power.
One of the earliest known uses of the power of the pivot is found in 411 B.C.E.
The Greek playwright, Aristophenes, in his play Lysistrata tells about the women of Greece deciding to end the Peloponnesian War by witholding sexual relations from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace.
In a male-dominated society, the weakest members of society created a means of reversing the power structure demonstrating who needed who the most.
The strongest desire among the men was used as emotional leverage and a pivot was created.
In the above case, negotiation was used as a platform for redress of grievances.
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In Japan, heavily armored and handily armed warriors terrorized any person or group that got in their way until the gentle art of JU-JITSU.
Ju-Jitsu allows an unarmed practitioner to use the power and motion of a fearsome opponent against them by pivoting and leveraging their motion.
The weak could reverse-dominate the strong through mastery of the principle of creating a pivot of imbalance. Thus, the phrase was introduced:
THE BIGGER THEY ARE THE HARDER THEY FALL.
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King George the III dominated the Amercian colonies until a reversal was sprung by colonists refusing to pay taxes.
When armies were sent, the colonists refused to form battle lines and march into direct confrontations. Instead, they employed revolutionary tactics
of sniping, hit-and-run and sappers. The superior armaments proved disadvantageous as the rules of engagement were undermined.
In all the above examples, the status quo was shattered by a refusal to observe the RECIPROCITY principle.
Changing the rules toppled POWER.
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Using the above as a template for exploring and understanding the power dynamic among Jehovah's Witnesses, we turn to history.
1. Between the time of the American Civil War and World War I, religious dominance by mainstream churches was severely weakened. Confidence in the moral AUTHORITY of preachers who took sides had been undermined.
2. Confused and restless true believers turned away to find more trustworthy experts and authorities.
3. Anybody who could pass themselves off as a genuine expert on the Bible was given a careful listen and consideration.
4. Since nobody really had any expertise to judge, the story that seemed most reasonable and desirable was substituted as the "best."
5. Among certain true believers, End of the World preachers gained prominence mainly by citing prophecies which pointed to 2nd coming predictions.
6. William Miller, a Baptist lay preacher, came up with a rip-snortin' chronology predicting the End using simple arithmetic and a lot of gullibility.
7.Even though his predictions failed, those who broke away from mainstream church to follow him refused to go back. These "assumed" it was only a matter of tweaking and adjustment to get the End Date right.
8.Those people have been held in thrall by AUTHORITY of self-claims and aggrandisement ever since.
9.Among the most self-aggrandizing are Watch Tower "experts" claiming special expertise and AUTHORITY bestowed by anointing: the FDS.
The power structure of the Watch Tower Organization arrogates authority by means of SPECIAL PLEADING.
"Jehovah selected us to be in charge."
The reciprocal agreement
There is a tacit reciprocal agreement in situations of ceded authority that happens in two ways. In a coercive sense, a suppressed threat to use force leads us to give control. In the nurturing sense, we're promised the rewards of love. Either way, obedience is gained through a promise of future action.
Where is the GIVE and TAKE?
Under Watch Tower Authority the immediate threat of annhilation at Armageddon is a big stick and the promise of everlasting Paradise is the carrot.
In exchange, 8 million Jehovah's Witnesses must do EXACTLY AS THEY ARE INSTRUCTED unquestioningly.
In a practical sense, the Watch Tower leaders have proved time and time again (false prediction) they cannot make Armageddon come.
The only threat left in their arsenal is SHUNNING.
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1.The Governing Body claim special authority which has been repeatedly falsified by failed predictions proving they CANNOT AUTHENTICALLY make those claims.
2. Elders in the Congregations act as conduits of arrogated authority over "troublemakers" (i.e. anybody pointing out weakness). These Elders are called "servants" which implies compliance with the requests of others. They possess no EXPERTISE because they continually fail to follow the simplest directions set forth in scripture--instead, substituting phony orders and policies from the GB.
3. The real "power" in the Organization is in the mind of compliant members who set the Elders and GB on a pedestal and defer to their every command.
4. The only "power" in shunning is demonstrated by the fact it is those very rank and file members who wield it! Meaning? If only the Elders refused to speak to a DF'd person---who the hell would care?
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A leader is only a leader if people follow.
An expert is only an expert if expertise is demonstrable.
Authority is granted by reciprocity and only by reciprocity.
WHAT IS THE PIVOT POINT in the Watch Tower religion?
1. A "Faithful" person says something is going to occur and it does occur. If it does not occur, logically, that person was UNFAITHFUL.
2. A "Discreet" person is defined how? ". . . careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, esp. in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage. " The false dates proclaimed worldwide brought shame and embarassment upon JW's and especially "Jehovah".
3. Authority finds its source in the ability to DELIVER its end of the reciprocity agreement. The GB has neither delivered promised Armageddon dates nor everlasting life nor trustworthy teachings (always changes and modifications.) In fact, all it has ever actually delivered is THREATS.
The POWER of the PIVOT
Who wants to listen to an arrogant idiot tell you how to live your life?
If you reply, "I do!" you deserve your bondage.
Who wants to be judged by imposters claiming power and authority they've never been able to demonstrate?
If you reply, "Me--bring it on!" you deserve your life of grovel and ass-kiss rewards.
Who wants to be threatened with having a group of "Christians" withold love, forgiveness and prayers from you?
If you reply, "That sounds great--give me some!" then you belong with the phony baloney self-rightous morons who desecrate the meaning of brotherhood.
If you prefer to be loved by people who KNOW HOW to love and who can GIVE emotionally from a heart filled with values that last, it is time to PIVOT
away from false teachers, wolves in sheep's clothing and arrogant self-aggrandizing bullies whose only accomplishment in 100 years is THREATS.
Master the art of the REVERSE SHUN.
Withold YOUR affection, respect, compliance, unquestioning obedience and admiration FROM THEM!
Why?
THEY ARE POWERLESS WITHOUT IT!
Did you know you can Disfellowship THEM?
Yes, you have that power, that human right and that duty to do so.
Once you realize you have been serving a false God under phony authority, enforced by lackeys with slack-jawed nincompoopery--march into the Kingdom Hall and corner the so-called "leaders" and inform them in no uncertain terms:
"Listen up--I'm only going to say this once. I'm not bending over for you petty criminals any longer. I'm serving notice on all of you.
I'M DISFELLOWSHIPPING you for malfeasance, incompetence, bullying, braying and bullshitting without a license.
You're amateur jackasses pretending to be little gods and failing to live up to even the lowest standards set for grade school dropouts.
Instead of banging on your neighbor's doors and waving donkey drool at them--you need to go get your G.E.D. so can learn how to add and subtract
so you can see the moronic laughingstock you've been for buying into the Watch Tower explanation for a 1914 invisible Jesus!
Don't bother apologizing--if I wanted to hear another vapid mind fart out of you I'd be arrested for public stupidity.
As of this very minute--YOU ARE BEING SHUNNED BY ME!
Now, turn around and go get a life to replace this miserable excuse for a cartoon on steroids you've been playacting."
(SLAM!)