How The Watchtower Creates Its Own Enemies

by metatron 3 Replies latest jw experiences

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  metatron

  I'm not a mental health care professional but to quote Bob Dylan, "you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the

  wind blows". I am absolutely convinced that the Watchtower is solidly founded on the strong encouragement of obsessive

  compulsive thinking. This sad state of mind is utterly essential to maintain the whole structure of the organization

  and is seen by asking oneself:

  Why attend meetings that aren't relevant or useful?

  Why put in time in a "ministry" that is little more than occasional magazine peddling amidst trotting

  from one presently uninhabited house to another?

  Why respect the elders - when they are often uneducated, inept, corrupt or uncaring?

  Why attend assemblies that are painful to sit thru, while most of the audience 'zones out' anyway?

  The answer usually is: You have to, you gotta ( or at least are trained to feel that you do!)

  The Watchtower's encouragement of this obsessive state of mind fully accounts for the reverse as well,

  a growing crowd of adversaries equally obsessed with destroying their misrule! Old habits die hard, mea culpa!

  metatron
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  Undaunted Danny

  Roger that you got that right.The WT$ calls their brainwashing protocol "repetition for emphasis".I was DFed for an unspecified "capital offense" the only thing i can figure is the "capital offense" was rejecting counsel from the Rockland Massachusetts congregation elders.Counsel one member admitted was 'trash counsel". I am their very own "Frankenstein's monster".Defined a;" the creature that turns on it's creator".I spend a big chunk of change on my operations to expose them for the family wrecking pompous sleazy slime that they are.NO! I don't want to go to Disneyland. Hey that's just little ole me.What about God almighty?If there is a just God,he hates the Watchtower.
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  iiz2cool

  Why attend assemblies that are painful to sit thru, while most of the audience 'zones out' anyway?

  The WT$ calls their brainwashing protocol "repetition for emphasis".

  I wonder if the repitition is more effective when the audience is in a 'zoned out' state. It might account for the JW inability to think or reason objectively.

  Walter
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  M.J.

  I wonder if the repitition is more effective when the audience is in a 'zoned out' state. It might account for the JW inability to think or reason objectively.

  I think there's something to that. I'm no a mental health professional myself either, but I have read that "zoning out" is actually a form of trance. In a trance state your critical faculties aren't in full gear so you are more accepting of whatever input your brain is receiving. Some cults intentionally try to get their adherents in such a state to indoctrinate them.

  I think that the compulsion is driven by emotional hotbuttons, particularly the ones that fill their heads with terrible images, like dying at Armageddon. This is why they have to keep being reminded of all the doom and gloom.