Product recall

by teejay 3 Replies latest jw friends

  • teejay
    teejay

    Product recall

    Once upon a time I tried to wake some people up.

    There came a time in my life when nagging questions left off whispering and began to scream. I decided to answer their call. In my quest for truth, many times--because of my own dogged effort--I was rewarded. Other times, I just happened to stumble onto gems, worthy of keeping. Worthy of passing on. After years of idle, mindless sleepwalking, the truth... the unchanging universal kind, found me, and I found it.

    And a funny thing happened. As it was when I learned a previous Truth, I thought I'd share this new and improved variety (aka: Real; universal; unchanging) truth with those same ones that I cared most about.

    When I did, from the very ones I cared most about and sought to help, I began to hear an allegation... a claim... a charge.

    "Who's influencing you?"

    "You must be listening to those apostates."

    "It must be that Franz book you read. The old teejay would have NEVER said that."

    --------------------

    Here in the U.S., Ralph Nader's legacy--and a good one it is--will be the product recall. A thorn in the side of corporate America, he found flaws--many of them potentially fatal--in far-too-many consumer products. Through sheer determination, he'd see to it that manufacturors were legally forced to recall their products and fix them free of charge. It's an almost daily occurrence these days, so much so that few even think much about it.

    What precipitated the recall in the first place is that kazillions of people where all having problems with the same car/ink pen/typewriter and they talked about it amongst themselves. Nader simply tapped into the dialog.

    Later on, if they happened to read something in a newspaper or heard about Nader's efforts to correct a problem they were having, they would all nod in agreement with the author. "Yes, I had/have that problem, too!" they would mutter to themselves, thinking they were alone--but not, at last.

    People all over would read such articles. People who never knew each other and who had never met. Were they ALL swayed--influenced--to agree with Nader? Or did they nod in silent agreement because of their own experience? An experience that jibed all too closely with what many others--worlds away and never-met--had experienced?

    Product recall. It's a good thing.

  • gumby
    gumby

    TJ...." the unchanging universal kind, found me, and I found it."

    What is ....'it' ?

  • teejay
    teejay
    the unchanging universal kind, found me, and I found it."
    What is ....'it' ?

    Sorry, Gumby. I could have worded that better.

    Of course I have found no 'it.' But then, in a nutshell that is the truth I found. There *is* no 'it.'

    Which in itself is a superior Truth to the truth(tm) I was raised with. *That* truth(tm) centered on the excruciatingly false idea that the Creator of every living thing had been (and was now) dealing exclusively with a handful of men in Brooklyn, NY, and that every single one of its utterances were Truth. Which is a crock. But I'm thinking that you already know that.

  • gumby
    gumby

    TJ...Which in itself is a superior Truth to the truth(tm) I was raised with. *That* truth(tm) centered on the excruciatingly false idea that the Creator of every living thing had been (and was now) dealing exclusively with a handful of men in Brooklyn, NY, and that every single one of its utterances were Truth. Which is a crock. But I'm thinking that you already know that.

    Just knowing the WT was/ is a crock, sets one free in itself. It's when a person gets back into any controlling group(s) that a person can lose that freedom all over again. I feel to love ones fellowman and being a good kind person would make the Lord happy.............providing HE is real......I still don't know.

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