Nothing helps a religion weasel out of the hot seat better than a good arsenal of "back door" words. The ultimate "back door" expression invented by the Watchtower Printing Corporation is "wait on Jehovah" and the purpose of this post is to examine that expression with a microscope.
This expression is always brought out and touted when things are totally screwed-up in WatchtowerWorld.
"We have a major problem with covering up and enabling pedophiles and expelling the children who are raped by them. What should we do? I know! We'll just "wait on Jehovah."
"Our predictions are so screwed up that there is no way we can fix them without looking like even worse idiots than we are, so the best thing to do is "wait on Jehovah."
"Thousands are dying from our anti-Biblical blood doctrines and millions don't even understand that we almost allow them to actually have blood transfusions these days. Should we write a concise article and explain in lay terms our newer policies, or should we just announce that taking blood transfusions is a matter of conscience and we will not interfere with a member's exercise of his or her conscience? Nah! We'll just "wait on Jehovah."
"I just lost my job, I'm out of food and about to be evicted. I think I'll just "wait on Jehovah," then.
You get the picture: this expression is used when stuff in DubLand is screwed up.
The expression is used routinely by dubs and the society without thought. In fact, most expressions are use routinely by dubs and the society without thought.
By its very nature, the expression "wait on Jehovah" implies two things:
Someday, somehow Jehovah will "do" something to correct a problem.
Jehovah, for some strange reason chooses to allow the only organization he personally selected and is somehow "directing" to have things screwed-up, sometimes for decades before he actually "does" anything about it. This includes letting uncounted numbers of people die or otherwise have their entire lives screwed-up while God is "waiting" do "do" something to correct the problem.
Since there is virtually NO evidence that Jehovah is actually "doing" anything in WatchtowerWorld or anywhere else for that matter, "waiting" for him to do something is the ultimate religious cop-out and should be identified for what it is.
When some problem DOES get fixed, it is always "Jehovah" who fixed it. People don't stop to think that it was a bunch of old men in Brooklyn who actually took the initiative to make changes and for severe problems those changes were made because of an "or else" dilemma the society created for itself in the first place. Those changes were usually made due to drastic drop in membership or lawsuits and the threat of lawsuits. Good examples are the society's former stances on marital sex practices, alternative military service and organ transplants.
For another strange reason, Jehovah somehow "directed" his organization to ban and then un-ban oral sex between spouses. He also somehow "directed" his organization to ban and then un-ban alternative military service and organ transplants. Between the banning and the un-banning, people were supposed "wait" on Jehovah while they were needlessly going to prison, having their marriages and families trashed and dying in hospitals. And when the un-banning was announced people were somehow "blessed" with this new and wonderful "provision" from Jehovah! What utter rubbish!
Dubs don't like to have their very own precious argument used for everyone else, though. No! It is THEIR exclusive argument and if anyone else DARES to use it, it is a sacrilege. The Catholic Church is now "waiting on Jehovah" to fix its own pedophile problems. The Afghans "waited on Jehovah" while the Taliban was running around cutting off people's hands and feet for petty theft and executing people for looking cross-eyed at their religious doctrines. The United States and the World's Intelligence Community is "waiting on Jehovah" to deal with worldwide terrorism.
What would today's society be like if the world had done what dubs do when problems surface?
Had the Allies before WWII "waited on Jehovah," the world would be speaking only German and Japanese today. We wouldn't have automobiles, airplanes, telephones, computers, medical marvels, disease eradication, an unprecedented standard of living and life expectancy today if all of those pioneers had just sat on their asses and "waited for Jehovah" to make things better for man.
But NO! Dubs just sit on their lazy asses and spend their entire lives "waiting on Jehovah." That makes them losers of the worst sort.
God didn't give us the abilities to work out our problems only to have us sit on our asses and then wait for him to do something about them. It just amazes me that dubs can't figure out that simple little fact. It amazes me that it doesn't bother dubs in the least that their worldly enemies are working diligently to solve man's problems that benefits those same dubs n countless way as a result, yet they continue to preach their message of hatred towards those same benefactors.
"Waiting on Jehovah" is pure bullshit. DO YOU HEAR ME, WATCHTOWER LEADERS? It is a lazy cop-out designed to comfort lazy, do-nothing idiots. It is nothing more than a stall tactic used by Watchtower leaders while they frantically search for some solution, that when found, they glorify themselves over and say that "Jehovah" provided to them.
Life is made for living and DOING. That is what life is all about. How many animals do you see "waiting on Jehovah" for their necessities? Life was NOT made for "waiting," especially "waiting" for some Old Testament God who's been on vacation for thousands and thousands of years.
There is one and ONLY one time that would be most appropriate to "wait on Jehovah," and that is when you are dead. At that point you've got nothing better to do and all the time in the world to do it.
In the meantime little dubbies, stop making excuses for your idiotic religious leaders and essentially, blaming God for problems they've caused and not fixed.
Farkel
Edited by - Farkel on 28 July 2002 12:30:51