The Watchtower: Does This Game Of Jenga Ever End?

by metatron 19 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    There are a great many fine posts here - and some from 8 years back - detailing how apathetic and perfunctory the Organization has become.

    And yet, it still stands, doesn't it?

    Is there any point to be reached in this apparent 'experiment in sociology' in which they wake up and say 'screw this?' If they crammed 10 congregations into one Hall and stole the money, would any Witnesses wake up? If the magazines are given a final burial as to printing, would it make any difference? Could they baptize 4-year olds and get away with it?

    How about a "generation overlapping 5 times over that-saw-1914"? Maybe?

    How pathetic can meetings and field service get before it turns into a sort of self parody? Or doesn't that ever occur?

    I see endless cutbacks of all sorts, similar to pieces being withdrawn from a Jenga game but collapse doesn't arise. I think if it did, Witnesses would still point to a few pieces piled up and declare victory, somehow!

    It would be nice to consider a bottom, a red line, a final 'you've gone too far' position that Ends This Horror but I'm not sure that exists.

    I once said, "you could have the governing body doing young boys on a parade float being towed down Broadway at high noon and Joe Publisher would say, "Well, it's still the truth".

    That's one prediction or speculation I absolutely don't want to be right about.

    metatron

  • FatFreek 2005
    FatFreek 2005

    Amen -- great piece of writing.

    Len

  • dazed but not confused
    dazed but not confused

    Many of us here have been hurt and have a lot of hatred for the WTBTS. The simple truth is, not enough people are leaving. The last 10 years I was “in”, far too many justified far too much. I did for years. If you have enough people in “reaffirming their faith” and bolstering each other’s faith, then you will not have overwhelming hoards of people leaving. Unless there is another major scandal, many brainless JW’s will stay in and justify what’s happening all the while raising their children to be brainless JW’s. I hope I am wrong, but I don’t see an end to the WT in my lifetime.

    I agree. That was a statement I heard far too often, “Well, it’s still the truth.”

  • humbled
    humbled

    The

    The WT has a feature that makes it certain that there will always be some faithful adherents. What other religion has completely segregated the cult object from the common worshipper?

    God and Jesus are made remote and unknowable by design. And though some of us had doubts and left there will be others for whom here is no way to know or not-know God unless they are tuned in to the "Channel". These are so indoctrinated that they will never be able to examine their own experience and thoughts of whether God even exists or examine the scriptures with honesty.

    They will die as martyrs by slow suffocation.

  • metatron
    metatron

    Perhaps the only consolation - and I don't want to sound cruel- is that they possibly drift into a status that elicts pity and a response of condescension such as one would find in patting a pet on the head or consoling a person who is mentally challenged.

    "There, there..... I'm sorry your Armageddon hasn't shown up. Can I get you a cookie?"

    metatron

  • rip van winkle
    rip van winkle

    Cookies solve many things , Megatron! The WTS used cookies as a way of ending their secret elders video about suicide . Cookies are ...um...magical , but not like wizardry magic. Just magically delicious...makes the world a happier place like Keebler cookies with their elfin magic.

    Those nice, cookie baking, elves live in the trees and bake cookies all day.

    I wonder if they are volunteers for Keebler?

    Wonder what that Keebler elfin tree would sell for ?

  • tenyearsafter
    tenyearsafter

    I am not convinced anything will wake everyone...if pedophilia cover ups, major "new light", flip flops on doctrine, etc. haven't done the trick, I don't know what will. If a person is brainwashed, it's tough to change that group think. Depressing thought, but an unfortunate reality...

  • WhoYourDaddy
    WhoYourDaddy

    Who knows. You have to get to a point of "Enough Already" Enough ambient abuse. Enough Shunning. Enough real estate laundering. Enough selfishness and arrogance. Enough already. I don't want to be treated like that any more. That day may come. Who knows.

    It happend in a watershed event with people like Jimmy Swaggert, 700 club, Jim Jones, and the guy from waco tx.

  • WhoYourDaddy
    WhoYourDaddy

    The one thing fed by this POS organization is the narcissists ego.

  • trujw
    trujw

    It will but most likely not for decades. Slavery ended, the Catholic Church strangle hold on Christianity Ended. It will most likely go mainstream or start declining until it is a small fanatic group fractionalized .

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