My Prediction: If You Don't want To Be A Witness----You've Disassociated

by minimus 48 Replies latest jw friends

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  candidlynuts

  Evidently, they don't care simply about numbers. They'd rather have loyalty!

  do you think that is still the case? or just the way they seen it in 1918/1919?
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  Buck

  What is the name of the book the above quote is from? I would like to read it.
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  BrendaCloutier

  In my case, after 27 years nobody from my last congregation has any clue as to where I am, or maybe even remembers me!

  However, I am in contact with my parents and one active sister and her husband, so if they really wanted to get nasty they could. But with age all the nastiness seems to be out of them. Time will tell.

  Hey, if anyone wants to DF DA or do otherwise to me without my knowledge, I really dont' care. They may have already for all I know.

  The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and all their subsidiaries and followers are a bunch of crackpots. I have no desire to be associated in any way with the exception of helping out my mom with caring for my dad.

  If some ashole sees this and wants to take action agains me... so be it.
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  minimus

  I think numbers are important but if they had to cut out a large number of do-nothin, possibly dangerous inactives ones, they'd do it in a heartbeat. LOYALTY is more important.
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  BrendaCloutier

  LOYALTY is more important.

  Gotta keep that publishing company and it's subsidiaries in business.
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  Scully

  Buck:

  That book is the Proclaimers book, published 1993 by the WTS. It contains the satanized sanitized True? History? of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and Jehovah's Witnesses.

  Please be sure that when you read it, you keep this quote firmly in mind:

  LIE: The opposite of truth. Lying generally involves saying something false to a person who is entitled to know the truth and doing so with the intent to deceive or injure him or another person. ~ Insight On the Scriptures, Vol II, p 244, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, 1988.

  Rest assured that the WTS does not consider anyone who reads this tripe to be "entitled to know the truth".

  Love, Scully
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  HadEnuf

  Well minimus...if it comes to the point that they think they have the right to even do that...I think that some of us are gonna do something we might regret...no...that's not the right word...something we might get arrested for.

  Cathy L.
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  Siddhashunyata

  Consider this, a high control group is not concerned about loyalty but about control. Therefore removing all threats to control is the prioity even if it temporarily effects profits. Loss of control means the end of the game so disfellowshipping is the weapon of choice. If it was about loyalty they would be in dialogue with the "Bretheren' about the issues being raised .
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  Honesty

  If it was about loyalty they would be in dialogue with the "Bretheren' about the issues being raised .

  So, where does the Governing Body's loyalty lie with?
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  jgnat

  This reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my ageing customers, Honesty:

  So, where does the Governing Body's loyalty lie with?

  My employer reorganized a few years ago, pulling many staff out of their old units, and creating a "customer-vendor" relationship with former workmates. My "customer" in one of these units spent our first year together glaring daggers in my direction, as I shuffled and reorganized his beloved unit past all recognition. He is definitely "old school". He has often told me that he values loyalty above all else. What he fails to realize is that our mutual employer no longer has any loyalty towards US. We can be reorganized and shuffled and downsized and privatized on a whim.

  He finally caved and announced his retirement. He asked us to sign him up for a six-month project to help clean up his office and prepare for his departure. I surprised him by finding the ideal helpmate to assist him through his transition. He then sternly demanded that I promise that this woman stay by his side for the entire six months. "I can't do that" I told him. "We have only promised her six months' work. How can I force her to stay if she is offered something more permanent?" He shuffled off to ponder this, his frown etched even deeper.

  I imagine the GB is of a similar mindset. Loyalty is all to them. They have never been seriously questioned. The world has changed around them, but they have barely noticed.