Satan tries to distance us from Jehovah by moving us to make wrong choices.
That bastard! Good thing the Organization has never moved anyone to make a wrong choice:
"If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. .....all evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. ....as a young person you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way toward its finish, if not actually gone!"----Awake! 22 May, 1969, p15
One young man so passionately desired a particular tablet computer that he secretly sold one of his kidneys to buy it.
Then how did the Organization find out if he "secretly sold" it? Did the Angel Gabriel mention it in a Crooklyn boardroom meeting one day?
"..It is important, however, to avoid going to extremes...."
Ya. Like telling 7 million people that storing their own blood for a surgery that will save their life is the same thing as pouring out the blood of a dead animal that's about to become your dinner. Or telling men that if they ever want to be an MS or elder, they can't have a beard. Or telling a sister that if she doesn't scream while getting raped, It'll be viewed consensual sex on her part. Or telling parents and grandparents that they can no longer have anything to do with their child because they don't' want to be a Witness anymore. Yep. Good thing the Organization doesn't go to any extremes.......
"... Is it wise to risk unnecessary and potentially dangerous surgical procedures or medical treatments merely to make oneself more physically attractive?"
OK, that one took me by surprise. There must be a growing number of Dubs who do not want to get old in this System and who are trying to turn back the clock as though they'll never be old. Gee, I wonder where they could've got that idea from?
"...He does not want us to be falling asleep during meetings because of overwork or to be sitting in the Kingdom Hall worrying about money..."
Maybe people are falling asleep because the talk is boring as hell.....
"... Yet, many in the world around us believe that only by devoting themselves to making money can they have a secure future and take it easy later in life. They often push their children toward the same materialistic goal. Jesus showed that such thinking is unreasonable...."
Ya. How terrible to work hard now, buy a house, put monies towards a pension plan so that you actually ‘take it easy' when you're 75 or 80 years old. I can certainly see how angry that must be to Jesus.......
"...Ryan, a 32-year-old ministerial servant, relocated to a new congregation. "I expected to be recommended as an elder soon," Ryan relates, "but a year went by without that happening."
Obviously Ryan wasn't kissing enough ass from his new elder body, as nothing will get you made a member of the Club quicker than being a ‘yes-man' to your superiors. Shame on him!!
