Resurrection talk at convention

by innerpeace 45 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • DNCall
    DNCall

    I find this so interesting since I witnessed the creation of audio/video services at headquarters. I was involved in composing music but was often given a voice in concept and production meetings. I can recall fighting for emotional content in the videos especially since my job was to enhance whatever emotional values the videos contained. The problem was that there was very little emotional content and hence a much more difficult job to provide suitable music. The whole process was counter-intuitive. My fellow composers and I would lobby sympathetic GB members like Jack Barr and highly respected overseers like Ulysses Glass to at least address the need for some emotion. For the most part the videos were dry and self-defeating.

    This was back when "emotion was a tool of Christendom." The reasoning was that since Christendom didn't have "The Truth," it had to rely on emotion to retain its adherents. The organization prided itself on the intellectual content of its products.

    The cloying video described in this thread is clearly the effect the absence of anything valid intellectually. The passage of time has rendered the intellectual content of bygone days, useless.

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette

    DNCall: The organization prided itself on the intellectual content of its products.

    And as you concluded, that would require some actual "intellectual content."

  • JW GoneBad
    JW GoneBad

    innerpeace: Was anyone there for it, or have family too that is talking about it?

    IMO....no big deal!

    It was the 7th talk of an 8 talk symposium. Everyone was ready for the symposium to end so as to stand and stretch for the song and announcements. Of the 10,000 in attendance....maybe a dozen nutjobs reacted with emotion!

  • Comatose
    Comatose

    Do the little infants chopped in two by the Israelites entering the promised land get resurrected? I'd like to see that story.

  • sir82
    sir82

    the intellectual content of bygone days

    Does that include the news that women's "cranial capacity" was smaller than men's, and that pubescent girls are like "cows in heat", and that the heart was literally capable of thought, and that blood transfusions also conveyed the personality of the person who donated the blood?

    That "intellectual" content?

  • DNCall
    DNCall

    The intellectual content of bygone days included discussions of the Biblical sytem of unfolding and progressive covenants, Jewish festivals and their fulfillment in the Christian era, the chronology, the eschatology in detail, etc. Since most of this was time-sensitive and when time ran out (around 1995), the intellectual content was no longer valid. I should probably clarify that "intellectual content" doesn't have to be true. As it turns out most of it was pseudo-intellectual, but at least it wasn't the vapid fare that's served up today. Today's fare requires turning up the violins.

  • steve2
    steve2

    The glue that holds religion together is naked Emotion. However, because we also live in an "age" of reason, the "better" religions give their beliefs a sugar-coating of "reasoned" arguments. There's nothing quite like backing up stupid beliefs with a coating of reasoning.

    The best emotions to hold religious beliefs together are Fear, Obligation and Guilt - whose first letters spell FOGand have the literal effect of fog on people's ability to reason. I recall when each of my 4 JW grandaparents died in the 1970s to early 1980s: The message of fear was the same: If you want to see them again and be with them, you need to remain faithful, cause if you don't....."

  • designs
    designs

    Groups like the LDS and Trinity Broadcast give their followers a big green light to go for the Gold in this life.

    We got to pick our favorite future houses to live in when we were out in Service...

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette

    DNCall: I should probably clarify that "intellectual content" doesn't have to be true.

    Thanks for clarifying. I thought for a moment you'd lost your "powers of reason."

    DNCall: As it turns out most of it was pseudo-intellectual, but at least it wasn't the vapid fare that's served up today. Today's fare requires turning up the violins.

    That last phrase is the funniest thing I've heard all day. I nominate it for Quote of the Day!

  • Oubliette
    Oubliette
    Emily Litella on Violins on TV

    "I say there should be MORE VIOLINS on television and less gameshows!"

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