by run dont walk 17 Replies latest jw friends
You know, I gortta take issue with the comparison to Tony Robbins.
The WTS uses negative motivation - fear, threats, social pressure.
Robbins exhorts people to realize their dreams and to keep setting new goals.
It's almost like the WTS are the anti-Robbins.
The JWs have yet to learn, after 120 years of considering themselves bible geniuses, that human beings cannot be motivated by the negative incentive, by exhorting you to love to not do this or that. The 10 commandments are just like that: Thou shalt NOT do this or that... And frankly, it's easy to tell what kind of people this Jehovah character is speaking to by the things they are exhorted not to do: Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbor's OX, fer chrissake - and a buncha other things that I wouldn't be interested in even if my neighbor had any.
The Master came along and turned the Bronze Age God's exhortions around and made of them positive rules that people could love: Love your God with a whole soul; love your neighbor as yourself; and the Master removed the onerous burden of THE LAW from off the backs of the people and made following God a lovable and happy thing to do. But of course along come the Pharisees and seeing Jesus watering down their power had him killed.
And today any in the congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses who point the finger at the elders, today's version of yesterday's Pharisees, are immediately called apostate because these crooked men don't want to loose any authority over today's "flock". Lucky for us, we realized long ago that we don't need no stinking elders to gain God's approval, and we don't need no stinking governing body either. And that's what these bastards can't stand. WE DON'T NEED YOU, YOU HYPOCRITES. Go somewhere and jerk off, that's all the fun you're allowed today. And, BTW, we're going to roast your asses for screwing little boys and girls. Stand by. We have the law on our side. You don't have bupkiss.
Frank Tyrrell
there is no where else to go in this world.
We are very close to the
end and we can only expect life to become almost unbearable at some stage
That sort of reasoning could only motivate one to suicide......................if there is nowhere else to go than the borg!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And more unbearable than what the WTS has made it, can it ever be MORE unbearable??????????????
I was never motivated by the negative; what is there in that to activate the mind and heart? You will fry, or die? Please.
I was motivated by the idea that a group of people could exist in harmony, and for many years believed that we had it.
It slowly eroded, and along with it the idea that the congregation and the elders had made a place where all could exist.
BUT, not if you have children with problems like depression or addiction. Or outspoken children. Or children who asked difficult questions, or who saw the rank hypocrisy in the congregation.
Sigh. So, there you have it.
But for the longest time I was motivated by the idea of a close fellowship and thought I was in it.
the Master removed the onerous burden of THE LAW from off the backs of the people and made following God a lovable and happy thing to do.
And this is the one truth that they must twist at all costs to ensure their existance.
The Master came along and turned the Bronze Age God's exhortions
francis i got a quick question, do you still believe as jw that jah and jesus are not the same or do you believe that jesus is god
thansk
in my view it can be summed up as the following
for the most part all jw fall into one or more of these groups
FOG
F- FEAR
O- OBLIGATION
G- GUILT
these are perhaps the most motivating factors in one form or another that has kept you and i and millions of other peddling worthless books for years
"Jehovah's people keep active in the preaching work".
This one is basically telling you "Others are doing it, so you should do it too or you'll look like an ideot, people will take notice, and start questioning your spirituality. You don't want that, do you?"
