Never DA Yourself (&French Ball Bearings!)

by metatron 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Are you angry? Disappointed? Disgusted with a corrupt
    organization?
    Well, whatever you do, Never, never disassociate yourself!

    Don't play their game! Don't con yourself into believing
    that Da'ing yourself is a moral statement or protest.
    They won't even notice or care - you're one less problem
    gotten rid of.

    Give yourself the opportunity to discreetly damage their
    rotten enterprise. When Brother Uncertain says "I wonder
    how soon Armageddon is coming - should I work hard to
    make more money for retirement?" - YOU CAN SAY
    "Well, there's no King of the North, is there?,
    Why there isn't even a King of the North in sight!".

    He'll say "You're right!"( Yes, it can happen!)

    In short, remember the lesson of the French ball bearing
    makers in WW2.
    After the war, various Frenchmen were accused of helping
    the Germans. Some of them worked in factories making
    parts for German tanks. Why didn't they oppose the
    Nazis and risk getting shot like many brave Frenchmen did?

    One of them replied that they quietly reduced the
    production of ball bearings to a crawl. The few ball
    bearings that actually made it into German tanks didn't
    last because they were defective anyway.

    And so, without getting identified and shot
    they quietly defeated the Nazi war machine.

    Some of us can be heroes, openly
    Some can't
    But we all can contribute to the defeat of tyrants,
    petty or otherwise.

    metatron

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Metatron, I agree with you about DAing oneself being part of their game.

    I can't help but think the cute french ball bearing story is an urban legend, however. If not that, a french guys way of making himself feel better. Not that I judge someone harshly who would work for a enemy manufacturer under threat of death anymore.

    Perhaps they could slow production down a tad now and then, but mess around too much, and I'm sure the Kommandant would just shoot you in the head. The quality control guy was no doubt German too. He no doubt carried a gun as well.

    I'm guessing the writer of this clever little teaching tool is my favorite CO in an alternate existence. No doubt came up with this after watching that Hogans Hero episode with this in the storyline. He loves these stories!

    Hey, if I'm wrong, I'm gonna feel pretty stupid, but the worst that will happen is it will be substantiated and I will get a history lesson.

  • Francois
    Francois

    Beautiful plan. Maoist, actually - "Boring from within". I wish I had taken that tact, but after a life time of being in the Borg (25 years since birth) I couldn't stomach it anymore. I detested the very smell of a Kingdom Hall: cheap paper, second rate binding glue, and bad ink: eau de Watchtower.

    But it would be very good to get reports from the "front."

    F

  • philo
    philo

    Don't play the game: good advice. However, many people who leave the WT deliberately get DFed so their partners can get remarried. Its another case of the org holding most of the cards. The only way to help him/her is to blacken ones reputation. Closure!

    philo

  • teejay
    teejay

    Metatron,

    I realize that others view this matter differently than I do for various
    reasons, some of them very good, but I'm with you: don't play their
    game and stay connected to those within, if even on the periphery, to
    help as many out as you can. I've been fortunate in helping at least
    two people, people I probably couldn't have reached if they had
    viewed me as "da'ed" instead of my current status: "inactive." I get
    invited (sometimes) to get-togethers and I'm in regular contact (work,
    etc.) with others. Who knows?

    I'd rather be a thorn in the gb's side.

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    Six,

    I tend to agree with you. The Nazis didn't fool around. Muck up the
    job and you were easily replaced. Human life had little value and
    replacing bungling workers wasn't a problem. But the Nazis weren't
    all Mensa candidates, either. Incompetence is endemic in the human
    equation, and pulling a fast one on them now and then wouldn't be
    like brain surgery. I think it happened all over, not just in ball bearing
    factories, simply because 1. the workers weren't happy workers (hard
    to be happy when the boss has moved you out of your house and
    sleeps with your wife and daughter whenever he wants) and 2. they
    were usually quite undernourished and unrested and what work they
    did was seldom at their full potential. I don't think it happened as a
    rule, though.

    peace,
    todd

  • SixofNine
    SixofNine

    Teejay,

    I don't think it happened as a
    rule, though.

    Yeah, certainly not, by any stretch, to the extent mentioned in the story. Don't know why truth is so important to me lately.

  • Kent
    Kent

    Even better, refuse to accept crap, and when called to a meeting with the "committee" - ask your local congressman to go with you as a witness!

    I'd like to see the long faces of the assholes when they have the chanse to get their pitty cangaroo court exposed. There will be NO meeting - and if you're DFd anyway, your local congressman would have a lot to say. I'm quite sure of that.

    Don't let the assholes force you to go - force THEM to DF you. Go to the local paper, stating "I have voted for the first time in my life! I woted for Bush!". If they make noise, contact the Bush administration, and thell them you are booted for voting on him!

    I'd like to see what the lunatic would do then. LOL

    Yakki Da

    Kent
    Daily News On The Watchtower and the Jehovah's Witnesses:
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