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by pepheuga 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  pepheuga

  i believe i'm a little closer than most to the mind of the terrorist.
  as a jehovah's witness growing up, i would have done all kinds of
  things that 'jehovah's representatives here on earth' might have told
  me to do. you want me to do the "mics" brother? great! do you want me
  to knock on some doors? let's go tell 'em! do you want me to lay some
  bricks for the new kingdom hall? i'll be there on saturday afternoon,
  after the field service, of course.
  so far, so bad.
  but there was background noise, audible only sometimes ? what if we
  were asked to do something unusual, something.....controversial? would
  we be jehovah's loyal servants?
  well i was never asked by the elders to fire bomb the local
  pentecostal church (or whatever), but the best young witnesses
  understood that just because it hadn't recently been part of the
  pattern, didn't mean that we could preclude the possibility that it
  might become so in future. jehovah had a history of getting his peons
  to do his dirty work ? the temple wouldn't have come down had samson
  not been there, the ark didn't build itself prior to the flood ? and
  one should prepare for all kinds of challenges as the last days of
  this wicked system drew to a close. i had the mentality to make the
  carrying out of such a suggestion a possibility. this is how i would
  have rationalised it;
  1, it's the right thing to do. i know it is because this
  magazine/elder/whatever says so, and this means it has jehovah's
  backing.
  2, armageddon is coming, these people are going to die anyway, if
  for some reason god should choose me, a small fry loyal servant, to help in
  the task of wiping out satan's followers, what difference will it make
  to anybody whether jehovah kills the worldly one himself, or whether i
  do, at his instruction? and.....
  3, why should my tiny brain's lack of understanding of this choice
  be an impediment to the carrying out of an act that, at the highest
  possible level (jehovah's thoughts), is considered righteous?
  4, if i refuse to do it, i will be slaughtered by the almighty.
  5, if i'm so killed, i'll never get to see paradise, and live in it
  with my sweetheart forever.

  i see the pityful sight of the suicide bombers and i get angry along
  with many of the rest of us. but then, i step back a little and say,
  "there, but for the grace of the devil, go i."
  pepheuga
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  AlmostAtheist

  there, but for the grace of the devil, go i.

  I've often thought the same thing myself. If they turn radical one day, the suicide bombers will not be in short supply. Sick, sad, but almost surely true.

  Dave
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  VM44

  "Trespassing on Private Property" is something that used to be done all the time out in field service, to get to householder's front doors, or to the apartment unit in the back yard, or, especially, to get into a lock apartment unit!

  I think the Watchtower Legal Department has now told the JW's that if they do it now, they are on their own.

  That is why the JWs are told now not to say "We are representatives of the Watcthower Bible and Tract Society." It used to be said all the time to the people after they opened their doors and saw the publishers before them. Not so now, WT Legal says the average publisher is NOT a representative of the WTBTS. This is to prevent the Society from being dragged into lawsuits when the publisher does something wrong, like trespass. All in the name of preaching the Watcthower "Good News" of course.

  --VM44