What on earth have the JW org got to offer?

by Half banana 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Half banana
    Half banana

    What on earth have JW org got to offer?

    One hundred and thirty six years this July of the World’s most published and least read magazine: the inglorious Watchtower. Nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind. It is never quoted from by any academic source apart from exposing its stupidity or justifiable complaints of the magazine misquoting their researches.

    This magazine is worse than useless it is harmful. It has only ever misled people, it has never educated, only indoctrinated... and worse yet is that the writers don’t even understand the difference!

    Here’s my point... not ever having got anything right in its whole history; what credentials can they offer to the public that they alone should be believed?

  • John_Mann
    John_Mann
    And the articles are getting worser. Just about edible insects or java beans...
  • Half banana
    Half banana

    So edible insects and java beans will get you everlasting life?!

    Why do people still listen to JWs and even join the org when there is now no difference between them and any other Christian doomsday cult?

  • Magwitch
    Magwitch
    Half Banana.....Are you telling me that my college education from reading the Magazines for decades is not legit?
  • Half banana
    Half banana

    Sorry to disappoint friend but you’ll have to return those diplomas to fairy-land, they just don’t cut the mustard in the real world.

    The CV for a youngish male JW about to get married:

    Education: Read the Watchtower and Awake magazines cover to cover for fifteen years.

    Work experience: Part-time window cleaner

    Job prospect: !!!

    income prospect: !!!

  • FusionTheism
    FusionTheism

    The things the Watchtower offers, as far as religious doctrines, which people find appealing (and which are actually Biblically accurate), are:

    * No traditional Trinity

    * No eternal torment in Hellfire

    * No Calvinistic Predestination that makes God be portrayed as more evil than Satan.

    * No complex Rapture theories (except, well, now they've made a complex Rapture theory for the Anointed)

  • tim3l0rd
    tim3l0rd

    John_Mann:

    And the articles are getting worser.

    Well you obviously didn't read enough Watchtowers to get your BA of Arts equivalent degree. lol

  • pixel
    pixel

    The things the Watchtower offers, as far as religious doctrines, which people find appealing (and which are actually Biblically accurate), are:

    * No traditional Trinity

    * No eternal torment in Hellfire

    * No Calvinistic Predestination that makes God be portrayed as more evil than Satan.

    * No complex Rapture theories (except, well, now they've made a complex Rapture theory for the Anointed)

    And actually, all of them highly debatable.

  • Half banana
    Half banana

    Fusion, thank you for your reply and suggestions but really... are these notions worth wasting your life on? Other religions teach these things also. How could any of them be offered as an enticement to commit your life to the JW religion? For example; “Join us as we have no complex rapture doctrine except for the governing body”. It is a complete irrelevance! They have nothing to offer which is realisable and never did have. The trinity no longer gets people's juices going and never will again.

  • westiebilly11
    westiebilly11
    ..there is something the wt could yet do which they perhaps have overlooked until now....build a huge jw life in the paradise theme park.....along the lines of disney etc ...!

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