Do you think the Watchtower makes up experiences by people ??? (page 3)

thom

I remember an experience at a DC where some information what carefully left out of an experience.
A young couple I knew were giving experiences and the husband gave some experience that I don't really remember, then the wife gave hers. There was a "worldly" guy where she worked that had shown some interest and she was "witnessing" to him. After a while, she turned it over to a brother who studied with him and he eventually got baptized into "the truth".
What she left out was that this guy from work was standing right next to her. She had the hots for him and was dating this "worldly" guy and he eventually became a JW and she married him. I wonder how the whole thing would have sounded if she brought out all the facts during her interview instead of leaving that part out.

thom

On a side note, I was chatting with her husband once after a session at an assembly and he was standing with a broom in his hand. He said "I brought this in case ***** wants to ride home on her own tonight."
She very much "wore the pants" in their relationship.

jeanniebeanz

I was asked to give an experience at a Circuit Assembly once and when they got done telling me how I was to give my experience, it was no longer recognizable as the original. So deceptive, in face, that I refused to give the experience.

I was really confused at the time as to why the original experience needed to be so twisted to be any good. I guess the truth wasn't dramatic enough for them. Then why ask me to do it in the first place? Were there no 'better' more glamorous experiences to be had? It really opened my very young eyes to take experiences at the assemblies and in print with a very large grain of salt.

J

ljwtiamb

This is not directly related, but:

I have been both the interviewer and interviewee for assembly parts.

We always went over these before the CO and/or DO before the actual program. In almost all cases, the traveling overseers would 'guide' and coax the 'real life' comments to bring out a very specific point. Sometimes, that would significantly change the 'experience'.

In one case, a 'sister' talked to me after the practice session to mention that she felt bad that this had changed so much. I used the old 'follow the direction of the mature brothers' speech.

Just what I remember. Maybe others have had similar?

jeanniebeanz

We always went over these before the CO and/or DO before the actual program. In almost all cases, the traveling overseers would 'guide' and coax the 'real life' comments to bring out a very specific point. Sometimes, that would significantly change the 'experience'.

That is exactly the way my experience was handled. Bro. Snow changed it so much that I didn't even recognize it. I backed out entirely. It felt too much like lying...

J

M.J.

I have spoken to a brother who wrote an article in the Awake about his own personal experiences in joining the JWs. He didn't know I had read his article but he used a lot of the same words and affirmations in person that he did in his article. Plus his personal story seemed to fit what the article said. So at least in my own experience, it was not made up. I'm sure it would have caused quite a deal of questioning by people who know this guy if the WTS blatantly revised the details.

vitty

Jeeniebeanz

That happened to a sister in my hall. It started off as an item in the hall, experiences placing a new book, it ended up on the platform in the assemble. I knew it was embelished completely, cos I had been with this sister when she placed the book!!!!!

She didnt want to do it, but did

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heathen

I think it was more like the WTBTS predicting jesus would take over the world political scene and begin the millenial reign not that he came invisibly , they only started teaching that when their prophesy fell through . Even today they will twist the facts to make it look like they were right all along . I have never seen anything in their publications denoting the change in doctrine and reason for it .

Doubtfully Yours

They alter people's experiences to make them more likeable. They 'air brush' it, so to speak.

Or they print stuff like "A renouned doctor/lawyer/specialist says....", and such renouned doctor or lawyer or whomever is a person that is a JW.

They're a bit deceitful and misleading in this regard.

DY

Do you think the Watchtower makes up experiences by people ???

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