jw.org madness

by Gorbatchov 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  BluesBrother

  Have to agree....infantile I call it. Having been raised in this movement and used to the educational, informative and reasoning(even if faulty reasoning) style of things, I look on with despair.

  The logo has become a symbol equaling the cross of Christendom or the crescent of Islam, it is a flag to rally round. This cotradicts everything they ever taught about such things. At one time they wore a cross & crown lapel pin , but before the cross was abandoned they said :

  Proclaimers p 200

  For years, Bible Students wore a cross and crown as a badge of identification, and this symbol was on the front cover of the “Watch Tower” from 1891 to 1931. But in 1928 it was emphasized that not a decorative symbol but one’s activity as a witness showed he was a Christian.

  Today I see old and experiences Witnesses who had previously criticised the "website madness" wearing these jw.org pins with enthusiasm. It is like they have joined a new club
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  neverendingjourney

  It's weird they're all gaga over a website. I mean, big wup, everyone has a website

  It speaks to the boredom of the average JW and the monotony of their lives. The same applies to the ridiculous reactions at the international assemblies. These people are bored and repressed. A reaction to something new or any opportunity to express themselves gets overdone.
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  prologos

  heartofaboy, re The 1975 binge: I was in the midst of the developing tide, I remember as a bookstudy conductor the paragraphs that spelled out the 1000 year start. and like building tsunami it started from there. As retiring special pioneers, the first thing we did , bought a lot and started building our first house, going against the building current.

  I have yet to see locally a similar gladness over the web site. after all it does not promise a return of paradise soon, only the watering down of the onerous H2H (H2Oing of H2H, get it?) perhaps.

  JW s wanted desperately to believe that these WT promises were real, as they bolstered, supported the calculations, perhaps even believed by their increased work they could make it happen.

  Perhaps JWs are grasping now at another straw, the ORG site, to signal that their slavery will be over soon.
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  Dis-Member

  After years of not having an internet home and the net being demonised the WT controllers have realised as what utter addiction people have with sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and the like and the sheer potential to have access to peoples minds across every device they own 24/7 so they have created a haven for the rank and file to have a frenzy with on a site of their own and at the same time be able to effortlessly continue the indoctrination and mind control via it's steady stream of heavily controlled one way content. The 'flock' will never come off that site now it's been given the full blessing by the GB. It will become as addictive to them as social media was and is to the rest of the world.

  It's a whole new level of manipulation and control.
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  prologos

  Dis-Member. yeah, I abstained from both. still have to yet to log on once to the ORG site, and surfed the 1975 wave without ever really being part of the swell. Am I missing something?
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  Vidiot

  prologos - "...perhaps even believed by their increased work they could make it happen."

  That kind of thinking is definately not limited to 70s-era JWs.

  In the past, many apocalyptic groups have gotten tired of waiting for the End, and began to advocate increasingly extremist behavior in the hopes of kicking it all off.

  prologos - "Perhaps JWs are grasping now at another straw, the ORG site, to signal that their slavery will be over soon."

  For some of them, absolutely.

  Towards the end of my dutifulness in the Org, I would - more and more - catch myself hoping for the Big A to come just to be free of indentured servitude to the WTS.

  When I finally grasped that if the WTS was right and it actually did come, I wouldn't be free...

  ...well, needless to say, it helped make my fade that much easier.
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  Heartofaboy

  I think you are right prologos, the JW's spiritually speaking are surviving on such thin pickings that they grasp at anything the GB offers like a person drowning at sea would grasp at anything to help them float just a few hours longer.
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  leaving_quietly

  DD, you are so right.

  At the meeting this week, a pioneer made a comment that one of her non-witness family members were talking about "Jesus this" and "Jesus that". Her reaction? "I steered the conversation toward the Kingdom."

  I thought to myself: OMG? Did she just say that? Really? What's the difference between "Jesus this"/"Jesus that" and "Jehovah this/Jehovah that" or "the Kingdom this/the Kingdom that"?

  They really are terrified of Jesus.