Wise counsel for JW's in latest WT

BoogerMan

June 2023 Study Watchtower p. 13, par 15 - “We will not be fooled if we “make sure of or, “test” all things.”...we need to test what we hear or what we read to determine whether it is genuine.....Instead of naively accepting what ~~others~~ the org say, we use our thinking ability to compare what we read or what we hear with what the Bible and Jehovah’s organization say.”

enoughisenough

If they use their thinking ability to compare what The Bible really says, they will wake up and and at least mentally leave. I love that you underlined the "and"...because they don't want you to compare the Bible without the filters of the org.

Sea Breeze

we use our thinking ability to compare what we read or what we hear with what the Bible and Jehovah’s organization say.”

Kinda like getting a letter from your Dad and asking someone to interpret it for you even though you could read it yourself.

DesirousOfChange

Of course that excludes testing the WTS/JWs to see if what they say is "genuine" (accurate).

Disillusioned JW

We should also put the Bible and the WT literature to the test by comparing what they say with what modern science says (including what modern science says about evolution).

ExBethelitenowPIMA

And compare what modern science says about the safe and effective vaccines that the governing body have direction from jehovah to keep getting new boosters. Yes even encouraging dubs to stay fully vaccinated with all the latest boosters

now there are many who followed the direction with blood clots and wish they didn’t follow that direction

Ding

To most JWs, "make sure of all things" = find out what the GB currently says about it.

StephaneLaliberte

It was advices like this one that lead me out.

When I was a kid, there was a convention where a District Overseer made jokes about an elder turned apostate who wrote a book. Apparently the author stated that it took him 20 years to leave the JWs. To which the District Overseer added: "Well, if it took him 20 years to realize he had been wrong all along, obviously, he's mentally challenged. What an idiot!" And everyone laughed and laughed.

I took note.

I told myself: Before I ever take on any responsibility, I will need to make sure I answer all of my doubts. This is what eventually lead to me leaving.

punkofnice

By 'test', they mean to only read JW publications(tm).

It's all so hollow.

If they actually did 'test', there wouldn't be any Jobots left. they'd all become 'mentally diseased apostates(tm)'.

peacefulpete

Ding ...exactly. That's not even a subtext. That is exactly what they are saying.

"If you hear some other interpretation, all you have to do is compare it to what we have said on the matter to know whether to believe it."

At the same time it perpetuates the illusion for individual JWs that they 'know' the Bible and have arrived at the WT teachings through study and research.

It's an old used car salesman approach, " I don't want to pressure you, go ahead and get others' best prices, we're sure you will be back... But don't wait too long this car will be gone soon."

Wise counsel for JW's in latest WT

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