That quote but StarTrekAngel alluded to, has to be one of the most disturbing and disquieting comments the society has ever written !
If that does not smack of cult like control then nothing does.
WT “Study” for 11th Sept 2016 – “Why Must We ‘Keep on the Watch’”?
by Nicholaus Kopernicus 35 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Listener
They are now stumbling around in the dark. They have no oil left in their lamps because they used it all on their false dates.
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Vidiot
Listener - "...They have no oil left in their lamps because they used it all on their false dates."
Not to mention ol' Fred Franz left no protege, and no one is left in the Writing Dept with his kind of writing skill, so they're stuck with a 50-year-old Cold-War-era End Times script featuring powerless and/or nonexistent bad guys. :smirk:
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berrygerry
You needed to ask whose ego is being bruised by the walkers and talkers?
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Heaven
Some excellent comments made on this thread.
Listener said: They are now stumbling around in the dark. They have no oil left in their lamps because they used it all on their false dates.
They keep using the phrase 'the light is getting brighter' when they change their doctrines but in reality, it's getting dimmer and dimmer.
FOG (Fear, Obligation, Guilt) tactics don't work on me. They have the opposite anticipated affect, actually. Kinda like this:
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konceptual99
They keep using the phrase 'the light is getting brighter' when they change their doctrines but in reality, it's getting dimmer and dimmer.
Whilst I agree with the sentiment 100%, the WTS have not used the phrase about the "light getting brighter" for years. It persists in the mouthsof individual Witnesses but they have been at pains to use phrases that convey a slightly different tone such as "beliefs being clarified" or "progressive light".
They are trying to convey that things haven't really changed. Of course they have and the light is indeed getting dimmer and dimmer - they know less than they did 10,15, 20 years ago.