by OrphanCrow 37 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
SecretSlaveClass:Stay out of their culture and lives and you won't get hurt - period.
I agree 100% with that. Staying out of their lives though I don't know? The Inuit are collectively a very social and engaging culture that generally speaking love outside contact and human interactions it helps break up the sometimes bleak monotony of Arctic life. The last thing they need is Jehovah's loving provision of Christianity. They already have enough superstition and crazy belief's to go around.
Truthseeker:
Staying out of their lives though I don't know?
What I meant by that was not interfering with their lifestyle. If you are interacting with them in a way that does not conflict with their lives and genuinely help - as in a medical volunteer role - You have my full support.
The Witnesses were organized into groups and assigned to visit towns and villages that extended from Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in the west to Kangiqsualujjuaq, Quebec, in the east, a region spanning over 3,300 kilometers ( 2,000 miles). Those participating in this outreach campaign cared for their own travel expenses including, in some cases, airline tickets that cost several thousands of dollars per person.
Prior to the campaign, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses approved translation of the video Why Study the Bible? into Inuktitut. This Inuit language is spoken by about 35,000 people in Canada and is recognized as an official language in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
Still burning up as a result of this article!!
I hope that the Witnesses on this expedition aren't all brain washed zombie drones. If any of them still have an active brain cell among them maybe spending a little time in Canada's far North will have a greater impact on the Witnesses than on their potential Inuit converts.
They should try wrapping their closed minds around the Inuit language for example not an easy task by any means. The Inuit have several words to describe snow conditions for example. http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/varia/snow.html It would be a very fitting gesture indeed to require young Bethelite missionaries or any religious fanatic missionaries to learn the culture and language of the Inuit as taught by the Inuit themselves in some recognized Institution of higher education. I am sure there are many people in First Nations communities that would love a crack at it.
This will provide much needed employment for the members of the Inuit communities who are academically inclined and give some Southerners an understanding and appreciation of Arctic culture and there is always the chance that it might awaken some of the religious zombies.
With whats at stake monetarily in Arctic resources the Inuit can easily afford this.
SSS: You're a true guardian of the underdog...
Thx, just as long as I don't get called a guardian of doctrine! Lol!
Petraglyph: Details for:
Aklavik – Moose Kerr School
Their website was not available yesterday.
Note there there is no email address!
You might have better luck with this website:
I sent an message to the email address on the contact page of the Northern Teachers' Assoc.
If anyone is interested in the content of my email, please pm me. I covered the following: Royal Commission/child abuse, disfellowshipping, political neutrality. What I didn't mention was the WTS stance on education. So...for anyone interested in following up with anything further, that may be a place to start.
I couldn't find a specific email address for Velma illasiak, but I did find a TED talk that she delivered. The audio is bad, but her talk is interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwd2py3j0mI
And a CBC article that was published just a few days ago:
Gwich'in educators in N.W.T., bring culture and history to high school course
(full article at link)
Students learn about respected elders, land claims, settlement patterns and family structures
Gwich'in educators in the N.W.T., have developed a high school course for students that hopes to reclaim the aboriginal group's culture after the legacy of residential schools.
"I think it's a reclamation of identity of who we are as a people and how we instill that in our youth," said Velma Illasiak, principal at Aklavik's Moose Kerr School.
The course was developed by the Gwich'in Tribal Council, its teachers, elders and cultural researchers after they met in 2014.
It's taught in English and compliments Gwich'in language classes that students take throughout the Beaufort-Delta region.
The course covers a range of topics about Gwich'in culture and history. Students learn about land claims, geographical settlement patterns, family structures and stories of respected elders.
Let's hope that JW literature isn't being introduced in these schools. What a horrible education that would be.
TS: Still burning up as a result of this article!!
Me too.
It's funny how they will put this on their website but will not share with the R & F anything regarding the Australian Royal Commission. What are they hiding?
It's amazing how many people we ask (some VERY uber) if the know what happened with the Australian Royal Commission last month. Not even 1 person knows anything about it. What are they trying to hide up in Crooklyn?
What gets me about this kind of stuff is the individual JWs who participate in it. I believe that some of them really do care and think they are doing a good thing, but I know from vast experience with JWs that they love visiting these types of people - those who are ill-informed and present no challenge to them. They wouldn't be so ready to visit if these people were educated and knowledgeable.
JWs in my area love to go to areas in which the people are less educated and of lower means, but shy away from areas in which the people are generally more knowledgeable and will question/challenge them.
They feel empowered when around the less educated. It strengthens their feeling that they have knowledge and are in an elevated position relative to others. "Oh, look at us! We're so glad to sacrifice and help these poor lost souls who don't have the vast knowledge we have." However, when they are around the educated, they get exposed and challenged. They are asked questions they can't answer.
Also, their participating in this visit to these remote communities will provide them bragging rights for years to come and make them potential candidates for assembly and convention interviews.
Magnum: I believe that some of them really do care and think they are doing a good thing, but I know from vast experience with JWs that they love visiting these types of people - those who are ill-informed and present no challenge to them. They wouldn't be so ready to visit if these people were educated and knowledgeable.
Magnum, You are right on with all the points you make.
Misplaced charitable works and misplaced charitable feelings are self indulgent and nothing more. The JWs think they are doing good because it makes them feel good.
They feel empowered when around the less educated.
Exactly. JW "charity" is all about the JWs themselves and has little to do with those they have targeted. This kind of misguided "charity" makes my stomach heave.
