During the recruiting process, cult members use coercive methods of instilling guilt on those who are weak minded
thus making them join out of fear. The Watchtower publication use powerful/scary illustrations in their
magazines and books to lure the victims in. Why be fearful? What would be the consequences if you disobey
Jehovah? There is no eternal punishment. You have a choice of sleeping in the grave forever (no pain, no suffering) or
living on Paradise Earth with the rest of the happy robots. Either way, there is no suffering. Does all this have
something to do with enslavement? What's really going on here? More heads in the Org=more power? more money?
Why guilt people into joining the Org. if there is no eternal punishment in the first place?
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I_love_Jeff
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watson
Nice "Fiat" blockage.
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prologos
Take an ordinary Joe, or Joeliette, and promise them a future, Paradise with Pandas, forever. let them sleep, dream over it.
Then promise them justice. death to the wicked, (insert your favoured villain), at Armageddon. soon.let them sleep, dream about it.
Atmageddon soooon, also becomes the hurdle, the thing to fear, if you dont make it, if you do not serve with obedience. sleep, nightmare.
then introduce a REAL god that watches everything you do, and appointed glorious elders that will decide about your fate & pandas
then baptize you in solemn ceremony into this spirit directed organisation, that will administer your time and money.
Why: see above.
so: if there IS no eternal punishment, you create one in the recruits mind.
An eternal non-punishment.
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Doug Mason
Religions convince people they have a problem ("sin") and that the only way to solve it solution is to join them and follow their instructions. The religions point to difficulties that a person is experiencing and the concerns they have, then they paint pictures of the Perfect Life that lies ahead when they join the religion.
The dream can be useful to help some people cope with life.
Money? Those glorious cathedrals in Europe were paid for by people who contributed money ("indulgences") in order to buy their way out.
Religion
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prologos
DOUG, and it worked, they payed the MASONs and there is indeed a high probability that purgatory was kept empty ( not by the moneys payed).
The modern day promises are empty too,
the coffers full.