Do you have to Kiss the Ass of the GB to be a Writer for the Watchtower?

by frankiespeakin 33 Replies latest jw friends

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  frankiespeakin

  To be a writer for the WT has be a very empty and unsatifying work asignment. Imagine having your hard work picked over and dumbed down to appeal to those with very limited education. How humiliating!

  I bet every single writer for the WT organization has to regularly kiss the as of the GB either verbally or in thier writings and perhaps both on a regular basis. For it is very hard for me to even imagine that anyone can stay a writer if he didn't. The GB would never let that happen,, and why should they there are plenty more ass kissers to take thier place if they didn't.

  Also look at the articles they write,,full of ambiguity and praise for the organization, decietful yet appearing truthful. This has to be a very unsatifying job one that over time makes one sick to his stomach. I bet many in the writing department suffer depression when they read thier own work, for they must really see the bull shit clearly and it must be very depressing.
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  frankiespeakin

  I'm sure many of you writers have access to the internet and know you are just writing articles to keep a mind control cult in power,, and it must really get to you guys. Day in and day out writing the same old non-sense garbage,,when will it ever end.

  Don't forget what the GB did to Ed Dunlap and how they kicked him to the curb even afte all the hard work he put into his writing, so you know they will do the same to you if you don't make beleive you still beleive,, it is a very sad way to spend ones life trapped inside a cult helping them to further keep many hard working JWs under thier control,,wasting thier time that they have so little of.
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  kwintestal

  I'm sure many of you writers have access to the internet and know you are just writing articles to keep a mind control cult in power

  You got to be pissed off at them on one side, but feel sorry for them on the other.

  Pissed because they're promoting a cult and spreading lies to millions of people, but sorry for them because they are trapped in their lie and life.

  Kwin
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  ljwtiamb

  Not to offend your questions, but it's really not much different for writers inside wts than it is for any high profile job in a global media corporation. IMO, if it were not for the internet (as well as underground rags), with its anonymity and freedom of speech, there might not be any difference between and information outlet.

  Day in and day out writing the same old non-sense garbage

  very empty and unsatifying work asignment

  having your hard work picked over and dumbed down to appeal

  regularly kiss the as of the GB either verbally or in thier writings and perhaps both on a regular basis

  there are plenty more ass kissers to take thier place if they didn't.

  suffer depression when they read thier own work, for they must really see the bull shit clearly and it must be very depressing
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  frankiespeakin

  Ljw,

  Not to offend your questions, but it's really not much different for writers inside wts than it is for any high profile job in a global media corporation.

  I take no offense and I agree partially. The difference is that in the corparate world you don't have to beleive the corperation is God's organization, you have more freedom of expression,, you can talk to you spouse openly, you are getting a retirement package for your service,,you get paid and can live in a nice house. Where as in the WT you have the threat of being DF'n with no retirement pension and have little or no money to suport yourself, you loose all your friends and have your reputation dragged through the mud.
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  FairMind

  A related question would be, how are the writers trained? There is so much Orwellian thinking and deliberate misdirection in what is written that it has to be a intentional. Just a thought.
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  BluesBrother

  You have to "kiss the ass" of the G B , or whoever represents them in your chain of command, in order to do anything the borg, let alone write the stuff
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  95stormfront

  Where as in the WT you have the threat of being DF'n with no retirement pension and have little or no money to suport yourself, you loose all your friends and have your reputation dragged through the mud.

  You do get to look forward into moving into that mansion you have your eye on down the street when those heathens living in it now are blasted away at armageddon.
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  Narkissos

  When I was in the French Bethel (early 80's) there was a Writing dept. (only two or three people at that time), which provided the material for the token "local" articles ("from our correspondent in France") and a bit more: in particular, most of the material for the Divine name and Trinity brochures, or the articles on Church Fathers came from France (as is obvious from the unusual proportion of French quotations). Those I was in contact with sometimes expressed their frustration about the transformation of "their" papers by the Brooklyn Writing dept. -- which they usually found out when the final English version was published, as the authorised version to be translated back into French.
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  frankiespeakin

  Nark,

  That must have really pissed them off:

  Those I was in contact with sometimes expressed their frustration about the transformation of "their" papers by the Brooklyn Writing dept. -- which they usually found out when the final English version was published, as the authorised version to be translated back into French.

  Did any of these people eventually leave or am I asking something that you shouldn't answer. I mean the changes that they noticed must have open thier eyes alittle??