just to say a big hello.
i have been reading this site for some time now and have been very unhappy with some of the things emanating from watchtower head quarters in new york.
the final straw for me is the upcoming watchtower study this weekend encouraging us to shun our own family members (our own mothers if need be) if they are disfellowshipped....a step too far for my liking.
Hi WWR, I admire your enthusiasm and yeah if everyone wrote a stern letter every now and then it may cause a few chuckles around the morning worship table at Bethel.
I myself don't believe WT can be changed it has to be stopped so my wishful thinking is for a takedown rather than reform. Even a slow unraveling will do me.😇
Welcome to your life, there's no turning back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lhcparuzpc
I love Prince's music and the guy was surely talented. I have no business judging his lifestyle choices, after all who really knows these megastars...I mean really knows.
I do have a huge problem, on the other hand with WT's double standards.
When dealing with a "big fish" they are tolerant and forgiving of personal matters and choices.
When dealing with regular r&f they are brutal, merciless, and intolerant of the slightest infraction. Happy to delete, disfellowship and "mark" people they have no use for as bad association and don't give a flying fig about the lives they destroy in the process.
The WT likely showed a very different side of themselves to "Brother " Prince than the one you and I are familiar with.
after reading the content of the 1 day assembly on another post, please tell me wt are trying to suggest members cant follow super hero movies/characters etc.
the whole of my ex family wouldnt have a life if this happened!
surely a wake up call for them....... but doubt it
WT are known for rejecting superheroes.
if this is true, and we will have to wait and see.
prince could give everything to the watchtower.
so that's his $300 million fortune.
I agree with Finkelstein, there is every reason to believe Prince had lapsed considerably over the last few years.
Occult symbolism and imagery still played into his stage acts, and fashion statements particularly third eye imagery etc. I get the impression he had faded.
I really do hope he didn't leave any of his hard earned money to those parasites.
i see the jw rumour mill is going into mad overdrive about prince.
the stories seem to be more and more unlikely.
so i thought as a bit of fun how about us here try to make up our own rumours?
the governing body/watchtower unduly influences millions into extreme beliefs and behaviors.
and i suspect folks like anthony morris thinks his flock is not obedient or strict enough and there are many rules and teachings the governing body would love to enact but do not have the votes, or even they have the sense enough to know it would go too far.
however, i can’t help how by the time their edicts filter down to the rank and file jw, it causes unintended consequences.
the governing body/watchtower unduly influences millions into extreme beliefs and behaviors.
and i suspect folks like anthony morris thinks his flock is not obedient or strict enough and there are many rules and teachings the governing body would love to enact but do not have the votes, or even they have the sense enough to know it would go too far.
however, i can’t help how by the time their edicts filter down to the rank and file jw, it causes unintended consequences.
I would actually propose that there are four WT stories:
The Secret Official - only to be found or spoken of in hushed tones amongst a select few in a boardroom somewhere.
The Almost Official - found in the Elders manuals, the Letters to BOEs, Branch office directives etc etc.
The Public WT - found in the literature and the website.
The real WT - found in the small- minded, narcissististic, judgemental, intolerant, brainwashed, WT-spiel-quoting-zombies AKA the congregation, the brothers, the friends, etc etc.
An unintended consequence for WT would be oh I don't know, an abuse victim going to the police and taking them to court because they were discouraged from doing so by a cold BOE.
i think he is, but i"m not too sure.
just wondering because looking at that purple pimp outfit with hat that he wore to prince's memorial, i wonder if he ever gave a talk wearing the same outfit, when i've read here that some brothers were talked to for wearing a pastel colored shirt while giving a talk..
or so says the jw's around me who heard it from someone who apparently "knows".
i'm no expert in the music of prince so perhaps someone else can tell me, does the songs of the wt sound similar to princes work?.
i was talking with a friend of mine who knows a few people in the home department at bethel.
apparently, prince was, as i noted in the title, on the board of directors.
he apparently was sort of a silent partner or advisor in the whole thing.
Plausible I suppose, there'd have to be some rich powerful "string-pullers" behind the WT's false front, why not Prince being one of them.
