A Real Education versus Most Complicated Watchtower Study

by Celtic 11 Replies latest jw friends

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  Celtic

  I wonder looking back, here we were sitting through all those meetings week in week out, month in month out year in year out like some ruddy prison sentence, and we had to put up with listening to the most convoluted and elongated dribble / drivel possible, and some of those watchtowers and books in the 70's I recall as a child were dreadfully complicated, the parents running it past us over and over and over and over and over til we finally got the point and could explain it backwards, which perhaps might even have made more sense.

  But there were a few articles which stand out as being particularly weird thinking, yes, even amongst the rest of the absurdities even, can anyone here recall any, those outstanding achievements in most complicated Watchtower studies or Book study chapters?

  The comparison then with my school mates getting a completely unbiased education, a real education whilst we / I had to put up with that bollocks makes my blood boil.
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  ball.

  Yes, and I've got a copy of "Studies in the Scriptures" and that is something else!!!

  p.s. you got mail.
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  stillajwexelder

  Yes Babylon The Great Has Fallen Gods Kingdom Rules is probably the most complicated book of all time - I find a pure mathematics textbook easier to understand
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  Celtic

  Has those two books on the shelf behind me about 7' away, Ball, pm'd you back.
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  willyloman

  Now that I am out of the org, I am ASTOUNDED to realize that I know almost nothing about the bible! And I was considered "a good student."

  The reason? We didn't study the bible (remember how we used to always say that about Catholics and other denominations?). We studied a handful of doctrines, memorized a few key scriptures in alleged support, and then studied them all over again. In addition, we are told what to think so often that we can read the NWT over and over again and never learn anything new. The research "has already been done for us." The NWT is full of buzzwords. He hear them and our minds call up what's been said about them at the meetings and we think that's bible study.

  I have learned more about the bible in the past six months by reading various authors and their commentaries. Hell, you learn more about the bible watching the History Channel for an hour than you do at the typical meeting.
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  Celtic

  And the most complicated articles ARE? ....
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  Satans little helper

  gotta be daniel and all the hokum related to 1914
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  Stefanie

  Yes, and I've got a copy of "Studies in the Scriptures" and that is something else!!!

  Thats that stupid blue book isnt it? I HATED that book!
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  JeffT

  There was a book released at the '74 conventions with a title that went something like "The Divine purpose no being accomplished for man's good." or some such. I was a brand new witness at the time and thought it must be deep because it was so hard to understand.

  Now I know that it just didn't make any sense. It did however, strongly suggest that the Big A was going to be in 1975.
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  blondie

  Now that I am out of the org, I am ASTOUNDED to realize that I know almost nothing about the bible! And I was considered "a good student."

  The reason? We didn't study the bible (remember how we used to always say that about Catholics and other denominations?). We studied a handful of doctrines, memorized a few key scriptures in alleged support, and then studied them all over again. In addition, we are told what to think so often that we can read the NWT over and over again and never learn anything new. The research "has already been done for us." The NWT is full of buzzwords. He hear them and our minds call up what's been said about them at the meetings and we think that's bible study.

  Amen, Brother Willy.

  For all the hype the publications, the average JW has never read the Bible through, the few who did were at Bethel and read it in marathon fashion.

  Like you I am starting over at square one.

  Blondie

  The BTG book was just complicated BS but still BS. It was all smoke and mirrors, convoluted and designed to confuse.