Brave New World and meeting schedules

truth_about_the_truth

I'm in the middle of reading "Brave New World" by Auldous Huxley and came across an interesting quote:

One hundred repetitions three nights a week for four years, thought Bernard Marx,
who was a specialist on hypnopædia. Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions
make one truth. Idiots!

This describes brainwashing techniques used by an agent of the establishment.

Does this sound familiar to you?

To think that we were frustrated at the fact that the subject matter at the meetings kept repeating themselves, boring and the same ole crap.

Maybe it was never meant to be interesting? Maybe it was designed that way? 62,400 repetitions = one truth!

Now repeat after me:

WTS = God's visible organization.

Do that 62,399 more times.

Gill

It certainly seems to work for the WTBTS!

RichieRich

But only 4 years? JWs want you to go FOREVER. LOL

They might as well say the same thing 100 times- I ain't listening!

Oh but there is such a variety of fine spiritual food offered at the five weekly meetings, none of which you should miss. Otherwise it'd be like trying to use a hand with less than 5 fingers, and we wouldn't want that!

The variety:

Public talk -- some elder or elder-wannabe from another congregation tells you what the WT Society wants you to think.

Watchtower Study -- the Watch Tower Society tells you what they want you to think, in Q/A format, and congregation members try to paraphrase WTS beliefs in their own words.

Theocratic Ministry School -- Congregation members prepare parts based on material, repeating what the WTS wants you to think.

Service Meeting -- Preparation to go out and tell the public what the WTS wants them to think.

Book study -- Small group study where, again, you get more opportunities to give near-rote answers to the WTS questions about their own material.

This stuff must be deliberately designed to induce mass hypnosis. Very clever on the part of the WTS, if you ask me.

tetrapod.sapien

Very clever on the part of the WTS, if you ask me.

no doubt, it works. but, i wonder if it is actually intentional? since being out of the borg, i have learned about this very cool concept called "memes". this mechanism for mass delusion that they use, sounds a lot like the evolution of a meme. it's gets more and more adapted to it's niche, and next thing you know, it appears to be thinking for itself. if this is the case, then really this meme just branched off of the adventist meme, which branched off the protestant meme, which branched off the catholic meme, which branched of the...etc. etc.

Shania

Just read "1984" by George Orwell-------------now that certainly depicts what JWs life is and will be like in the future------------JW live that way now "only 4 fingers but are being told there is five over and over again.......................then the carrot--------------look out the window and see paradise...................JW are the people of 1984 who are being constanly watched........................this book was written back in 1949, I think George had some dealings with witness back then, by the way he writes about a perfect world.

sweet tee

Shania - the movie version was on cable last week. I believe it was called "Owellian" (???)

Scary stuff, SOOOOOOOOOO reminded me of the witnesses, the watchers, the dicatators (GB), the slackers, conscienteous objectors, and the brain dead followers. I probably couldn't read the book. Thinking about Witness stuff too much makes me sick .

And yet I persist in reading and posting on this forum ... hmmmmmmm

Well, that's cause you all understand how I feel. Now, group vomit

Ahhhhhh what a relief!

BRB, have to see what's on the other threads.

david_10

It's been a long time since I've read "Brave New World, " but I must've missed that line. Come to think of it, I was still a witness when I last read it, so that's probably why I didn't catch it (or ignored it.) I'm going to add it to my reading list and I'm sure it will be an entirely different experience now. Yes, Shania, I do agree about "1984." It's chilling------------------take out the words 'The Party' and 'Big Brother' and substitute 'Governing Body' and 'Society', and you've got a perfect depiction of Witness life. Right up there with "Crisis of Conscience," that's one of the books that made me wake up to the WTBS.

David