The WTBTS "may" never have claimed infallibility, but you can bet your ass, as they say in Palestine, that you'd damed well better act like you believe they're infallible, 'cause if you don't they're going to send three people over to your house at the most inopportune time, unannounced, wearing bad off-the-rack suits to "adjust your thinking" so that by the time they leave, you're babbling on like an automoton all about how infallible they really are.
If they never claimed to be infallible, then how come they spit up all over themselves, and pee in their pants when some brother or sister asks a question they can't answer, but which question shows them up to be as dumb as a frickin' box of rocks? I wants to know.
Let us, dearest brothers and sisters, go back to the magical summer of 1966 and the release of that book with the unforgiveably long and confusing title, "Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God." In that book, as we are all aware, that book states - to the cognoscenti - that Armageddon is gonna be here and gone by 1975. And we know that because of all the other stuff that we already know but which stuff we ain't gonna talk about right now [wink, wink, nudge, nudge].
And let's further say that some smart-ass college boy [like yours truly here] says, out loud where everyone can hear him [whoa! Hold on just a kipper-strippin' minute. Not so fast. Everybit of this is based on the unproven, but much laughed at, assumption that Jerusalem fell in 607 B.C. Now out of hundreds upon hundreds of scholars, only we, the JWs make that claim. Personally I feel that the 607 date is wrong, wrong, wrong. Therefore, I'm not going out and borrow no fifty large on the assumption that I won't have to pay it back. And in fact I'm not dropping out of college either. I think this date and that end-time prophecy, and this new book are all bullshit.] What do you think would have happened?
I guarantee you that no one would have got up on the platform and said, "Well done, brother Frank. since the Society doesn't claim infalliblity, you just go right on thinking that way. Not by a long way would that have happened. They would have conveined a JC right there on the spot to take up the matter of my bad attitude and my spreading dissent and my drawing off a personal following, and God knows what else. And you had to preach this shit door-to-door, you had to answer questions in the book study and anywhere else two or more people got together "in his name."
That entire attitude on their part is just as phony as the rest of them. It's awfully easy, when you've got your arm stuck in the cookie jar, to admit you made a mistake. But since no one can prove some of the JW positions are in error because the fulfillment of the error is way, way off in the future, then you'd better keep your pie-hole slammed quietly shut.
And that's just another reason that I hate the bastards with the intense hatred that I have hated them with. They are intellectual phonies. They are emotional bullies. They are a group of people who, if their guts were on fire, I wouldn't deign to piss down their throats. YOU GETTING ALL THIS YOU JW LURKING ASS HOLES? What would happen to them if their favorite and only weapon were suddenly to be jerked from their hands? Say the congress if the United States made it a serious felony, in the name of the people of America, for any religion to take any action or reaction that would place any member of any such organization beyond the pale with his or her own kinfolk? In a split second, those weakling bastards would no longer be able to threaten anyone with the "loving" disfellowshipping arrangement.
One day, my friends, one day and I don't know when, but I am confident that a loving God is going to let me look dead into the eye of each and every person who over the decades has had anything whatever to do with the invention, maintenance, and perpetuation of the "loving" disfellowshipping arrangement, and point my finger straight at their beady, hog-like, squinty little eyes and say YOU WERE WRONG AND YOU HURT PEOPLE WITH YOUR ERROR, AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA PAY YOU STUPID, BIBLE POUNDING, BOOK IDOLATRATING, MOTE-LOVING, TOE SUCKING, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS PIG-DOG.
And there you have it friends. The Saturday edition of "Francois Vents His Spleen" Tune in again next week at this very same time, and you'll miss nearly all of the FVHS show, brought to you by Ever-Dry. Remember: under your left arm, over your corn flakes, always use ever-driiiiiiieeeeeiiiiii.
francois
(I really must do something about this intense hatred I have for that bunch. I really think I could reason with Satan himself more honestly than I could reason with the WTBTS. I honestly do.)