Summer Regional Convention

by miss.ives01 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    The whole thing was terrible. Put joke-hova first in life. It glorifies stupid hardships of every type. People are lauded for making stupid decisions in their lives, including quitting jobs because they could not attend all the boasting sessions or go out in field circus as much as they wanted. You go, and they plant on the astral the thought that you are only worth anything if you are under unnecessary hardship. And this year it goes beyond money--fun, health, and even life itself are involved.

    And yes, they are hitting hard on that people are not worthwhile to associate with unless they are pious-sneering or are at least assistant hounders. You skip a few boasting sessions, you can be assured that people will limit their association with you to hounding you to return to all the boasting sessions. You usually get 20 hours a month in field circus, and this month you only get 15 or 18--same deal. Unless there is a damn good reason why, you are probably going to be hounded. And all the more so if you skip a month or so altogether.

    No, this is not an organization that is worth donating to. They want your souls damned in every level of existence, so you will get nothing but misery for this and every lifetime beyond. Those people will return in another life to sickness, persecution, financial hardship, excessive work loads without compensation, and unable to enjoy anything. Is this what you wish to donate for? And remember, everything you donate goes toward use of black magic to enslave the whole planet.

  • blondie
    blondie

    Sometime they would have to have a secret knock to identify a legit witness and then be let in for meeting. I understand this, but some are saying that the time will come, only those in good standing will be let in. They will shut out anyone weak or not deserving.

    ----------------------the WTS was not very good at this identification. Spies in East Germany, Soviet Union, etc., studied and were baptized and rose to responsible positions in the congregation and turned in many jws during that time.

    jws allow known pedophiles to attend their meetings. Meetings then were small, only large enough to meet at a family home. Only people in that small group knew anything about each other. Supposedly after the WW2, jws found out that other people they knew were jws because they weren't in their group.

    Top it off, jws even higher up turned in others to save their own hide.

    It is just a way to scare jws.

  • Vidiot
    Vidiot
    miss.ives - "...I am grappling with the 'what if' they are somehow right about all of this."

    This might help.

    Say the WTS really IS right.

    If they were suddenly given control of a small country tomorrow, I guarantee you that within a decade, free speech and freedom of religion would be nonexistent, any form of alternative sexual expression would be outlawed, creationism would be mandated in schools, medicine would be severely hobbled, science would be nonexistent, disfellowshipped people would be imprisoned or deported, and "apostates" would be sentenced to death without possibility of appeal or reprieve.

    Now picture that kind of regime encompassing the entire planet.

    Indefinitely.

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