Elders’ School 2013: Model Judicial Committee Video Drama & Hypocrisy

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  oppostate

  Elders’ School 2013: Model Judicial Committee Video

  The third vid Hildebrando posted was very irritating!

  The three elders are quite interested in that the

  young man cut off association with the pregnant

  girl because she's a worldly influence.

  But it's the girl who has any sense of moral

  responsibility and wants to marry. This way

  the child won't be illegitimate, and will grow up

  with a father. This fact isn't even on the elders'

  minds. All they're interested in is that the young

  man wasn't open enough with details and should

  have been more forthcoming with the information

  they'd need to "discipline" him.

  Seems to me the "oil" they're using to anoint the

  young man is pretty rancid. The hypocrite elders

  need a lesson in morality and responsibility. Did

  they even care about the unborn child and its future?

  Did they show any concern for the girl and what was

  to become of her after being impregnated by someone

  in their congregation?
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  Listener

  If the girl had been a true JW they probably would have been insisting that he marry her. They would hardly be telling him to marry a wordly person because it is against their beliefs. You are right and this is morally wrong and becomes evident when they put their beliefs into practice.
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  oppostate

  It's situations like these where JWs act like Pharisees.

  Their rules actually prevent them from doing the moral

  thing in order to right the wrongs committed.

  That said, I'm not really feeling sorry for the young guy.

  He had his fun, and now he acts like it was all her fault.

  I guess that his growing up in the Cult didn't really prepare

  him to abstain from fornication, did it? If fornication is the

  reason why most DF's take place what does that say about

  "from their fruits you'll recognize them"?
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  DATA-DOG

  Remember the " Prodigal Son" video? The JW kid has a fantastic night with a beautiful young woman. He blubbers and cries the next day, and runs home. What if she got pregnant? I guess that's why they left that part out.... Young JWs are often very far behind in emotional developement. They don't even have enough experience to know when they are being hit on, so how could they know when to run away like Joseph?

  When someone shows them love, or fills the void created by the cult and conditional love, is it any wonder they stray? What is the fruitage of JWism? A bunch of people pretending to be happy and showing conditional love to anyone who follows the program without question? Legalism is destroying whatever credibility they had. It's taken decades, but it's happening.

  DD
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  oppostate

  Well said, all the legalism is robbing JW's from growing

  into mature adults who can make clear headed decisions.

  Without the aid of referencing the WT articles on any matter

  they're at a loss as to what to do.

  On many issues there's this unclear leading in the WT that

  leaves JWs feeling the brunt of making a decision out of conscience.

  I know, I was like that too, if an article isn't clear which way to go

  on something, then a JW feels that uneasy feeling, born from laziness

  of mind that prevents them from acting on something because of

  not having been clearly told what to do.

  The WT has made mental slaves of their followers and when they

  want to shirk responsibility they then dump the decision of conscience

  on the publisher. The publisher, not having been used to exercising

  his true conscience, but trained to have a WT disposition to follow

  what he's told, now has to decide, and his indecision reveals a

  moral ineptitude.

  I had that feeling when the fractions explanations came along.

  Not really understanding any of the disonance of accepting fractions

  I went with not accepting anything on my blood card form.

  It would be later, much later, finding the chapter on blood by

  Ray Franz that really made open my eyes and start to reason

  on the blood issue. Anyway that's one example, that comes to

  mind, thinking back on this issue of being unprepared, and

  immature about life's problems and what to do about them.

  The WT doesn't have all the right answers, as a matter of fact

  they have most of the wrong answers on just about anything.