Funny thing a quote.. that should have been so obvious but wasn't, struck me from Carl Jonsons book about the Gentile times where he says there are actually NO dates in the bible, well,, not with any kind of dating system we are familiar with anyway, we can only work them out from secular sources, so for the WT to say we can accept one date because it's reliable, but reject another.. now is so clearly and blatantly a lie. The funny thing is I can accept all the 'mistakes' that have been made over the years, it's the fact that now I know without any doubt the GB know they were wrong about all this and cannot let the lie go without crumbling the organisation so they just quickly cut off those that talk about it.
Thought the book was brilliant, well worth buying, I've scanned through most chapters, but loved the way he put every single person he quoted from in the details at the bottom, and especially where he had contacted scholars the WT have used to support their views who were horrified to find their words misinterpreted. I'm planning on reading it again slowly, as I am the type of person who needs to make sure of the more important things. In my own mind now when people come back at me with WT quotes I have the answers all ready.
Thing that strikes me about people on this board and the two books I have so far read (crisis of conscience and Gentile times) are that these people were deeply entrenched and totally believed what they were taught, they were not looking to criticise, and genuinely believed the organisation would realise their mistake and correct it. It proves to me that mostly it's only independent thinkers who are going to get away from the JWs. Guess I've always been one of those! When I had my nose pierced some years ago I just needed to show people an outward sign that I was not a sheep.. incidentally my husband and I always associate sheep with a person who will blindly follow others with no thoughts in their head.. so I dont consider it a bad thing to be a goat. Funnily enough my mother just never commented, didn't say she hated it, which she obviously did, I think she just hoped I'd grow out of it..lol. Some years later a sister at a convention stopped me and commented I'd lost weight, I pointed at my nose stud and said it was acupuncture.. it was supposed to be a joke, but she said REALLY... and wanted to know more.. The body of elders obviously discussed it and one was dispatched to tell me it was a bad example to young sisters in the congregation and I would not be allowed priveleges of service.. ie pioneering, I was understandably gutted about that.
Poppy xx (still enjoying my lazy sunday!!)
