The internal conundrum of opposing ideologies with the Jehovah's Witnesses religion.

by Finkelstein 10 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Finkelstein

  One might look at the JWS in two engaging parts, one part being the activity orchestrated by the top men who create the doctrines which get printed out into many pieces of literature the WTS publishes, call it dogma if you will.
  

  The other might be long extenuating rules of conduct of behavior the WTS enforces and regulates to its following devoted members in an all out effort to make the organization the most righteous and clean among all other christian based organizations.

  The doctrines created by the top leaders of the WTS have put forth many doctrines which weren't particularly bible supported, one could even say they were apostate in their expressive originality.

  Pushing the theology that Jesus has returned and has taken to his heavenly throne as of 1914 thereby proclaiming that mankind is living in the last days or "This Generation" spoken about in the bible was propagated by the WTS for over 100 years now, going as far back as the late 1800's.

  There has been a major effort by the organization's leaders from the top down to watch for any behavior by the adjoined members that would ruin the over all righteous image of the organization.

  Personal appearance is closely watched and monitored, social behavioral activities on various matters are also closely monitored over the avowed members.

  There is so much scrutiny going on over the members and critical judgments being imposed on a personal level to the members but what about the very doctrines to which these members are to uphold 100 % less they be punished for openly investigating and being critical of ?

  It seems the men at the top have the control over the doctrines they make and also the power to kick out and condemn anyone who honestly investigates these doctrines to their honesty and viability .

  There may be sin and apostasy by these men but since they are at the top of the ladder of power who create the laws and rules over the entire organization, that essentially makes them beyond being critically evaluated themselves.
  
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  Ding

  When you think about it, so much of the WT's troubles are self-inflicted.

  When Jesus didn't show up in 1874 or 1914, they should have quit setting dates. Instead, they set more and more of them.

  They tied themselves down to the end having to come within the lifetime of the 1914 generation. They kept redefining "generation" until now no one understands what they think it means.

  After lambasting the Roman Catholic church for covering up pedophilia by priests, they have engaged in a far more extensive cover-up of pedophilia by JWs.

  The WT destroys families by its shunning policies, and these are families of their own people, not outsiders.
  

  The list goes on and on.
  
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  JeffT

  When you think about it, so much all of the WT's troubles are self-inflicted.

  FIFY
  
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  Finkelstein

  An organization that gets started off by ignorance ventured into a commercialized business model , has but only one way to sustain itself and that is to keep on propagating that ignorance in how the organization originated its start.
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  Anna Marina

  I've just read through this thread and nodded at what everyone has said. All so simple and easy to understand. Then I think about those still believing the Watchtower is God's Organization. They'd not get what has been said.

  None so blind as they that won't see.(Jonathan Swift)

  (Jeremiah 5:21) “Hear, now, this, O unwise people that is without heart: They have eyes, but they cannot see; they have ears, but they cannot hear.
  
  
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  The Fall Guy

  JW's are convinced they have "nowhere else to go," so they cling resolutely to what they've signed up to.
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  Biahi

  Ding, you are so right, their own words condemn them as FALSE PROPHETS.
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  Vidiot

  Ding & JeffT - "When you think about it, so much all of the WT's troubles are self-inflicted."

  And since the grand old days of Rutherford, it has been - to varying degrees - on purpose.

  After all, Jesus said that his authentic followers (i.e. "true Christians") would be - for all intents and purposes - a persecuted minority...
  

  ...but if no one's actually picking on you for your ethics, decency, and belief system,sooner or later you'll have to come up with some other way to make people pissed at you, otherwise you might start to worry that you're not actually "true Christians" (and that simply won't do).

  ...

  Of course (as I've said before), going around poking people in the eye with a stick and then whining when you get smacked for it doesn't actually make you "persecuted"...

  ...it just makes you an asshole.
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  Finkelstein

  Its certainly a interesting study of human psychological and sociological behavior of how deviously corrupt Charlatans who started the WTS and how these men created a following around themselves.
  

  Exploitation of ignorance, exploitation of the basic belief in the bible, exploitation of people who were perhaps in a vulnerable emotional state of their lives, all of these can be contributed to the supporting structure of the JWS religion as it grew in expansion and as it exists today..

  It would appear that the men who started the WTS/JWs such as C T Russell and J Rutherford took the opportunity to exercise their own religious freedom offered within the United States and out of that endeavor a dangerous and destructive organized religion [cult] came to be .
  
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  Vidiot

  @ Fink...

  There's an irony...

  ...using the principle of "religious freedom" to - essentially - undermine religious freedoms.