Instructions from the Old Elder's Book

by John Aquila 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  John Aquila

  Last night I was looking over the notes on my old elder’s book and one of the instructors told us to write this down.
  

  "When you want to get the friends to believe and obey anything, just keep saying it over and over and over and eventually they will believe it and follow whatever they are being told."

  When I went back to school, I learned this quote in one of my world history classes.

  If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Now you know why they keep explaining the “Overlapping Generation” over and over and over?
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  cantleave

  I don't remember that quote in the book, either as as a handwritten note or in the actual text.
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  Londo111

  It's a truism. Repetition and emphasis. Reminders. These become mental habits that seem stronger than hypnotism.
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  John Aquila

  cantleave

  
  

  It's not in the written text, we were told to write notes and instructions on the sides of the pages. And make sure no one in our families saw the book or our notes.

  
  

  Little did I realize it was indoctrination at its finest.
  
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  cantleave

  I don't recall that in the hand written notes, which I believe were standard across the world. But then I spent pretty much most of the special elders meetings asleep. There's only so much I could take learning the the semantics between pornea, indecency and brazen conduct.
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  John Aquila

  cantleave

  There's only so much I could take learning the the semantics between pornea, indecency and brazen conduct.

  Ha ha, you just reminded me, I was so serious about those details back then, and after we got back home, the whole elder body would conjure up different scenarios to see if we all understood the difference between those terms. Now that I look back I just shake my head at how young and stupid I was.

  We even had a judicial hearing with a sister whose husband went to a worldly bar and had a girl dancer - dance on his lap. We judged it as fornication because the dancer's genitals touched his lap and we gave her permission to divorce him scriptural. Can you believe a bunch of elders in their 20s giving an older woman permission to divorce her husband.
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  Doubting Bro

  But was it under the clothes or over???
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  cantleave

  We judged it as fornication because the dancer's genitals touched his lap and we gave her permission to divorce him scriptural.

  That's frickin' hilarious......well it is until you realize that we (unqualified in anyway) as elders made decisions that could totally screw up other people's lives.
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  OrphanCrow

  John: ....a worldly bar...

  Lol! Is there any other kind?

  We even had a judicial hearing with a sister whose husband went to a worldly bar and had a girl dancer - dance on his lap. We judged it as fornication because the dancer's genitals touched his lap and we gave her permission to divorce him scriptural. Can you believe a bunch of elders in their 20s giving an older woman permission to divorce her husband.

  "a bunch of elders in their 20s". Isn't that an oxymoron?

  That is astounding on so many levels. Hang on while I pick myself up from the floor.................................Lemme guess. All those 20 somethings had parents who wouldn't let them take sex education in school.

  Eh...so....this is what happens when "government minds its own business and keeps its nose out of marriage".
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  John Aquila

  Doubting Bro
  

  But was it under the clothes or over???

  
  OVER!!