Being weak in the truth or just less interested

by JH 12 Replies latest jw friends

  • JH
    JH

    Often the Witnesses will say that someone is weak in the truth, if they don't do as much as the others. I don't think that they use the right expression, because someone could just be less interested in these things, but not weak.

    No one likes to be labeled "weak", so I wonder if this is not another way the Watchtower has to make someone feel guilty, so that we will do more, just to be accepted by the others in the congregation?

  • El blanko
    El blanko
    make someone feel guilty

    Precisely - not everybody can keep up with the reading / the meetings / the ministry in the the "expected" fashion no doubt!

  • new light
    new light

    Good point, JH. Some people are just not as interested in spiritual/religious matters, even within the JWs. Of course, that attitude doesn't move mags and boost the numbers, so low-hour publishers must be negatively labeled.

  • XQsThaiPoes
    XQsThaiPoes

    I am ill so I have been labeled strong in the truth, for sitting in meetings stoned out of my mind on prescription narcotics. When I get sick sometimes I do nothing for months, but when I cameo every one pats me on the head and say "good boy". I believe there is a sub culture of JWs that are "normal" people, have no problem "fitting in", and kicking back. I have even heard ex-jws use a term on parity with "weak in the truth", and call people "nominal witnesses". It seems some dislike "nominal witnesses" because they are not "assimilated" enough to know the so-called "horrors" that go on, so they don?t understand the true nature of why it is so hard and truamatic to be a witness. Um maybe some people are not a naive as others to take the words of dead men too seriously because if they were truly on to something "millions now living will never die".

    I just wish there was a way to know who was in the loop, and if any elders are ?nominal witnesses? too. Maybe even find a nominal Bethelite. I have heard stories from a friend that works there. The old-timers get way with saying the darndest things about the place.

  • ozziepost
    ozziepost
    Being weak in the truth or just less interested

    That expression again!!!

    It is NOT the truth and should never be referred to as that. If you must, try replacing it with "The Troof".

    Ozzie

  • flower
    flower

    All the Watchtowers terms and definitions are very carefully designed to increase guilt or peer pressure and give up control.

    Quite often those who are 'weak', as they put it, are really just smarter than everyone else and their subconscious knows something isnt right about their life. They cant get into it 'the truth' or make sense out of it because there is no sense to be made.

  • XQsThaiPoes
    XQsThaiPoes
    Quite often those who are 'weak', as they put it, are really just smarter than everyone else and their subconscious knows something isnt right about their life. They cant get into it 'the truth' or make sense out of it because there is no sense to be made.

    It aint subconscious, and it is because there is nothing to "get into".

  • gumby
    gumby
    I don't think that they use the right expression, because someone could just be less interested in these things, but not weak.

    Many WERE less intrested in the society's menu for worship.........but very spiritual. Many knew more about the bible and the organisation than the strong ones did. Many saw door to door work as unimportant because they spread the good news their own way. Others didn't feel joining the Minisrty School was vital for everlasting life.

    It's sad that this organisation looked at peoples numbers, rather than their personal worth.

    Gumby

  • seeitallclearlynow
    seeitallclearlynow

    What the highly indoctrinated Witnesses will never admit is that they are the weak-minded ones. Their minds are completely held by the systematic control mechanisms of the leadership; those who seem weak are actually strong minded and strong willed for the most part, and they don't allow themselves to ever be taken over completely by the control freaks known as "The Society" or "Governing Body."

    Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! The joke is on the ones who have always considered themselves the "strong ones." What a reversal and revelation.

  • XQsThaiPoes
    XQsThaiPoes

    Exactly people that want to shut down the watchtower is one step from sterilizing the "feeble minded".

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