Does the Watchtower really promote the fruitage of the spirit?

by JH 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  JH

  On the other hand, the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 mildness, self-control.

  Take them one by one, and give examples how the Watchtower doesn't promote the fruitage of the spirit with everyone.

  Love....Conditional love at best

  Joy.....Oh, the joy of attending 5 meetings a week and field service while others have normal lives

  Peace....OK, the don't go to war, but are they at peace with everyone who don't share their point of view

  Give more examples...
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  Markfromcali

  Well I don't have any off hand, but I will say it's more like fruit juice.. Actually, it's more like Tang. (uh oh now I've offended the Tang lovers)
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  RichieRich

  Love- Shunning

  Joy- sit through a 8 hour day at the convention and show me joy

  Peace- go to a JC meeting, and feel it flow

  Long suffering- Its hard to tell if they do or not, for all the bitching and moaning

  Kindness- try and find an end seat at an assembly.

  Goodness- good printing presses, thats about it.

  Faith- if they have faith in god, why'd they join the UN?

  Mildness- Not a quality of a JW, remeber they are to be spectacles and stand out in the world.

  Self-Control- replaced with mind control, a much more effective method.
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  blondie

  I would say that 75% of the JWs couldn't name the fruitages of the spirit, let alone know how to live them.
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  Wasanelder Once

  Based on a template first displayed by that playul little sprite of a disturber Richie Rich Love- Spending 90 hours a month driving your car around the city telling your neighbors to shape up or get slaughtered. (principled love, see) Joy- Finding someone home after fifty trips back to an empty house, even if they tell you to piss off. (you can check it off then!) Peace- What you feel when you leave the backstabbing social climbers and thier bickering at the Ministry School and Service meeting.

  Long suffering- What a sister must possess in order to put up with a "Theocratic Marriage". (Did he just say Jump?)

  Kindness- Sharing an extra copy of the Watchtower with an unbaptized person who isn't prepared at the WT study. (You can count it.)

  Goodness- That quality of the heart that moves the brothers and sisters to share with one another. (Wait, thats gossip, my mistake.)

  Faith- A strongly held belief that high hours and magazine placements will get you a picnic with a panda where you will never die.

  Mildness- What you see displayed by a parent when a child is dragged outside expecting to be cracked for acting his age. Self-control- The ability to completely accept everything taught when the mind is sceaming "BS".
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  LongHairGal

  In all honesty, without being sarcastic, the only fruitage of the spirit I ever personally developed (but lost) was long suffering. The reason I say this is because I always thought things would get better the longer I stayed there. They didn't.
  
  Unfortunately, what I witnessed in other people (with a few exceptions) was something other than fruitages of the spirit. Too many people gossipped.
  
  There was an overwhelming spirit of judgmentalism. Somebody once told me that there can be no love in a heart that is full of judgmentalism. This person is not speaking to that person and so on. Meanwhile, these dopes would expect the shunned person to help them if their so-called spiritual friends were not around.
  
  Also class distinctions and labeling (e.g. pioneer, etc.). Isn't everybody there supposed to be equal? Ha, ha. What a joke!
  
  I am sorry to say that the bad outweighed the good.