Good points Metatron, is it possible the Governing Body are either agnostics or atheists and pretend to believe they got the truth? It’s becoming a common theme among the threads lately and I wonder if it’s possible. Like any human being, we seek to provide for our family and at their age, there’s not a whole lot of opportunities existing for old men who teaching false doctrine, so they remain for financial reasons. No doubt they all have read “Crisis of Conscience” and “In Search of Christian Freedom”, so are they going to end up broke like Ray Franz Jr because they love truth or keep their positions as JW deities? We both know the answer, remain they must or money and prestige they lose.
I am hearing more complaints by Fundamental Christians leaders getting bombarded with financial questions, kids walking up after the Apologist gives his reasons “Why we believe in God”, some young college kid from Azusa Pacific University bluntly asks the Speaker “how do you make and how do I maximize my income, do I go for a mega-church or smaller focused on people in the Hamptons? This speaker bummed that’s all that kid wanted to know.
According to Lron’s son, his father was shocked by the response of Dyanetics and soon donations started arriving in the mail and people wanting to attend a clinic he had yet to devise. That’s when his father knew Scientology was going to be a smashing hit and his words as a “pulp fiction” writer came true, “If you want to make lots of money, start a religion!” On JWN, someone said recently the Governing Body are atheists and know they are teaching a lie but remain for the cash!
Ray Franz Jr. had to go, he was dangerous and they wanted him out as they did with brother Ed Dunlp. If they allowed Ray and Ed to remain in the Organization their fears might come true, two high powered Christian Scholars were two too many, leaving them alone was not a option. You know how far the Elders go to hunt down and seek out people whose wool is removed from their eyes, they are credible threats and must be removed for the Cults sake. They watch over the older-wise Witnesses who faded carefully, if there’s any hint of teaching something other than the official party line, there is no such thing as “wrongful excommunication” best to error because they think like the Jewish High Priest who said “Don’t you know anything, it’s better for one man to die than for the entire Jewish people!” (John 18:14). I think they are afraid of how powerful the Internet has become, your point of a large awareness is totally possible if the Witnesses allow themselves to see. Remember “There are none so blinder than those who refuse to see!” Proverb found in Watchtower, source Africa.
I agree, TED talks are informative and facial pattern recognition videos are useful, we need a super professional Poker player to read their tells. Have you ever watched the professionals on the World Championship matches on ESPN? They cover their eyes, put on ear muffs, fake smiles, create nervous ticks so nobody can pick up their hand yet it’s uncanny how some of the super-expert Poker players will say “you got two Sixes don’t you?” I like your ideas; we need to review their facial patterns by using Ted Talks and Poker Tells the Pros use. I enjoyed your ideas, you are right in everything you said about the Tipping Point ideas, and we are not dealing with rational people. Remember in the book how Birkenstocks got a second-wind because they were perceived as hippy and everyone who wanted to look cool in Greenwich soon bought a pair and it spread all over the Country. They were so popular when I was a teenager, I thought they were long dead and soon like a virus, they were back and gone. I wish we could know if the GB is a group of unbelievers. They don’t have the love of Christ that’s a fact we can extract from their teaching of hatred towards people who disagree with their Cult. The garbage they write in the Watchtower and ideas the Traveling Speakers bring are far from original Bible based Christian teaching, their man made. Thanks’ for a great thread Met, enjoyed it!
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