They just DO NOT think!!!

by Jez 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  Jez

  During talks, the audience just don't think. The speaker can shoot off some stat, a comment, but "Where is the evidence for what you just said?"

  The speaker can give a really great story about how a drug addict became a JW, how it saved his life, but do they think: "Yes, that is one neg example in the world, but what about the positive examples?" "What about the druggies that have survived WITHOUT JWs?" "What about the rehab centers? The ppl that work there? The volunteers?"

  Why does the audience accept only the negative stories of 'this old disgusting worldly system of things? "What about the negative JW stories? Why only tell the good ones?" "I know many many many neg JW stories, both when I was a witness and even more now, but I KNEW of many."

  The speaker can say that paradise is right around the corner, any day now, do not give out, but do they ask themselves "Is it worth living a life that has been bought with the lives of billions of people from all walks of life, of all ages?"

  I just do not get it and I am disgusted. Jez
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  IP_SEC

  LOL just a few weeks ago the speaker said "The numbers of the anointed have been going down every year" LOL everyone was kinda just shaking their heads "yes". I'm like: Whatttt!!!??? are you ppl doing? Braindead? Not look at the report?

  I really do believe that meetings put us in a trance state and we just kind of are there filling up on BS.

  IPSec
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  Freedom Fighter

  Negativity always suits their agenda. Particularly annoying is when they gloss over the billions of practicalities associated with the Paradise Erf, and lamely say ' Jehoober will see to it. '

  FF
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  purplesofa

  I really do believe that meetings put us in a trance state and we just kind of are there filling up on BS.

  OOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...........most are proably having an out of body experiance...!
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  blondie

  3 For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, . . . 2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4

  *** g87 10/8 p. 19 Is Lying All That Bad? ***

  In the book The Importance of Lying, H. L. Mencken is quoted as giving yet another reason why some resort to the lie: "What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing and caressing." Not surprisingly, then, people often do not really want to hear the truth, preferring instead "to have their ears tickled." (2 Timothy 4:3) The greatest teacher who ever lived, Jesus Christ, found this to be true. "If I speak truth," he said to the people of his day, "why is it you do not believe me?" (John 8:46) How tempting it is at times to tell pleasing lies instead of unpopular truths!
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  Big Dog

  The thing is that so many people are weak, and I mean weak in that they do not want to have to think for themselves or make hard decisions. They want to be told what to do, what to think, what to wear, etc. Making decisions, especially ones that have emotional components, or ones that are not easily reasoned out can be hard, it can be gut wrenching sometimes, but that is part of being a free moral agent and having a conscience, you have to make these decisions and live with them. So many want to take the easy way out, they want someone to tell them and relieve them from that awful tasking of thinking things through for themselves. That's why you get those questions from readers that are just incredible, you are thinking, you need to ask your religion the answer to this issue, figure it out for yourself. So they just sit there and in essence say, fill me up.
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  DHL

  They are like in love. When you're in love you don't see the faults or the pimple on the nose of this supersexy guy. He's just so cute and everything he says sounds so good... blablabla
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  trevor

  The Witnesses number less than 0.1% of the world?s population. If they were all to be spared, more than 99.9% of the people on earth would still perish. Their literature tells us, many times, that they will watch the execution and applaud.

  With so many billions of dead corpses around, it is likely that the ensuing disease would kill off the survivors. Who would care for the millions of domestic pets and milk the dairy cows? Who would find time to comfort any survivors, including children, who have enough heart to be in a state of shock at the loss of almost the whole of humanity? How can a group of people, who consider themselves more worthy of life than others, be disappointed that such a horrendous calamity has not yet been inflicted on the human race?

  If this slaughter were to take place, most Witnesses would have just lost most, if not all, of their relatives. When one becomes aware of the revulsion that most people feel towards genocide, such as was authorised by Hitler, it is hard to see how a group of people can look forward with eager anticipation to such a slaughter. Who would want to live in a world that is ruled by someone capable commanding such a slaughter? How could any survivor then enjoy life, in a world that has paid such a high price for daring to believe that the Watchtower Society was not a reliable organization in which to put faith?
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  Gill

  Trevor - you put the whole thing in perspective - the big A.

  And this is what they're eagerly praying and waiting for!

  Makes me understand more why I will NEVER go back!
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  diamondblue1974

  They dont think because they are not allowed to...if they think they get shunned...we are all living proof of that...