There's a really good article in the magazine...

by Nosferatu 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Nosferatu

  What always blew my mind was that whenever an article in the Watchtower, Awake, or any WT publication is when someone refers to a part of the publication and says, "There's a really good article in here about bla bla bla". I've heard many JWs use it at the doors, use it at the Kingdom Hall, etc. My question is, when is there ever a bad article? Or how about a not-bad article? Why are they always so good?

  Then there's the ones who say "There's a really good article in here" to the householder, when the JW hasn't even read it.
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  RandomTask

  No freedom of thought. Its not natural human behavior. Did God create us with free will and independent thought only to have them be rendered meaningless by a religion?
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  Scully

  How many magazines do you think they'd Place? if they said "Here's a really lousy article here on...."?

  Saying "There's a really good article here... " at the KH:

  Option #1 - Showing off in front of people who don't have time to read the magazines, or that particular article. It is a psychological means of feeling superior to someone else.

  Option #2 - Lets the Elders? know that you are Reaching Out? for Privileges?. Used most often in small groups - ie, Field Service? Car Groups? - or in the presence of Elders?, Book Study Conductors?, Circuit Overseer?, Pioneers?. Also known as "brown-nosing" or "toadie-ism".

  Option #3 - A means whereby the individual can ascertain who is behind in their magazine reading, for gossip Spiritual Concern? purposes. Also a feel-good I'm-more-spiritual-than-you tactic.

  Love, Scully
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  confusedjw

  Scully you are so right. And I noticed that RandomTask didn't have his mag underlined on Sun and I'm concerned. Let's go Love Bomb him into guilt.

  Ur Brother
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  Stefanie

  Then there's the ones who say "There's a really good article in here" to the householder, when the JW hasn't even read it.

  And that was me..lol

  I hardly ever read the magazines. I pretened to study the watchtower just highlighting whatever I felt like just to get the Nazi off my back.
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  exjdub

  Option #2 - Lets the Elders? know that you are Reaching Out? for Privileges?. Used most often in small groups - ie, Field Service? Car Groups? - or in the presence of Elders?, Book Study Conductors?, Circuit Overseer?, Pioneers?. Also known as "brown-nosing" or "toadie-ism".

  Scully...The trademarks say it all. You crack me up when your cynicism level is cranked way up, it hits my funny bone every time.

  exjdub
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  Gerard

  Yep. Dubs need to come here for gooood artilces

  
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  iiz2cool

  Then there's the ones who say "There's a really good article in here" to the householder, when the JW hasn't even read it.

  Heh heh! That was me. I hardly read any of the articles the last 10 years I was in. Maybe that was why I was so "spiritually weak".

  Who needed to read it to know it was "really good". It was from the society, wasn't it? It MUST be good!

  Anyway, I figure if you read one you read them all. Pablum doesn't change much.

  Walter
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  Nosferatu

  Okay, I'll admit it. I was also one that said "There's a good article in here about blablabla". The thing is, I put on "shy" mode when I went door to door. I probably spoke to around 10 people in total when I was in. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't sell something that I detested.
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  trumangirl

  When I was a new green pioneer (age 17), I went to my first CO's pioneer meeting and we were discussing when we read the magazines and in what order we read the articles. One bro (reacher outer), said he read each WT study article when he first got the mag and then studied it properly for the meeting.

  I pipe up and say "I don't read all the articles in the Awake - like if it's just about butterflies or something that doesn't interest me".

  Silence, disbelief, gasping, horror. I was so innocent!