The epitome of cognitive dissonance

by sir82 23 Replies latest jw friends

  • New Worldly Translation
    New Worldly Translation

    I wonder how many jws would go along with the org if it turned violent? The preaching has stagnated, we can save more by killing them and sending them straight to paradise.

    if the experiments by milgrom and zimbardo are anything to go by, probably the majority. Especially after so lng being brainwashed.

  • prologos
    prologos

    during the not-yet overlapping generation, wt writers taught that anybody dying during a judgement period would not be resurrected unless taking at least mags. urgent to place mags.

    now? is it enough to click on jworg to resurrect if you die?

    urgent to place the jworg card/tract,

    its a fact.

    or to be judged a sheep by reaching deep into your pockets and hand over all to the "brothers of Christ" the FDS /BG.org.

  • Wasanelder Once
    Wasanelder Once

    So basically thank goodness they die and avoid God's wrath. Why is this such a good eventuality??? Because judgement via God's wrath is abhorrent to a sane mind.

  • Clambake
    Clambake

    Is there anything biblical about this.

  • Pete Zahut
    Pete Zahut

    If the wages of sin is death and if dying means one's sins are blotted out making one eligible for everlasting life, what's the difference if one dies of old age or of an ilness or at the hand of God at Armageddon ? By JW logic, death in any form is a punishment from God. If you die at Armageddon or beforehand, one way or another you've paid the wages of sin and should be resurrected.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot

    sir82 - "One rarely sees anything so perfectly expressed as this example of cognitive dissonance."

    Boy, you said it.

  • I quit!
    I quit!

    And if as they say "God knows the heart" then why would he bother to resurrect them if he knows that he is just going to have to kill them all over again. Why not just resurrect the nice one? The ones that will fit in.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I remember jws saying that about dying now before the end and being assured a resurrection.

    I asked them if they planned on killing their non-jw relatives or other persons that don't look like they will ever become jws? I suggested that we should go door to door with a gun and shoot any who don't listen. They were aghast...we didn't mean that. There was a time that the WTS taught that from 1914 to the beginning of the GT was a "judgment period" and any non-jws who died before the GT might go to Gehenna.

    Guns

    Poison (have a big family dinner with something special)

    Knives

    Gas them

  • SAHS
    SAHS

    “Apognophos”: “What wrong could they do in that extra day before Armageddon that would deny them a second chance?”

    It sounds to me like some sick cosmic version of that party game “musical chairs.” In other words, you gotta get your ass onto a chair in the Kingdom Hall before the Big‑A strikes or you’re left out and Gehenna-bound. Rather ridiculous when you think about it.

    “prologos”: “Is it enough to click on jw.org to resurrect if you die?”

    I can just see the title of the next Watchtower magazine: “JW.ORG – THE CLICK THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!”

    “blondie”: “Poison (have a big family dinner with something special).”

    I think all the current GB members should definitely be invited to that special dinner!

  • Magnum
    Magnum

    I wanted to comment on this thread when it was first started, but I had so much to say and was so irritated, that I didn't know where to start.

    In addition to the insane reasoning and illogic, there is something else about this that irks me. It's the attitudes of the two; they're so smug, overly confident, and condescending. They look down from their high positions and feel sorrow for those beneath them. They never even question whether they themselves will survive; it doen't enter their minds to do such. But they do sit around and question whether all those not in their lofty, secure position will. And aren't they so loving to be concerned about those lowly ones? Oh, you dear, sweet brothers.

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