When I was leaving, a friends father was commuicating via his son. He was a presiding overseer, his message was that he didn't agree with all the doctrines or directives either, that it was nomal to feel that and that there was nowhere else to go. His mum admitted to believing evolution to likely be true when I brought it up and his dad and he (a M.S.) both admitted to using phrases like "he GB suggest..." or "The organisation has said we should..." whenerve they felt uncomrtable communicating doctrine etc they didn't agree with.
My point is Disp-Hero, they are not united, you have 7 million people too scared to say how they really feel and what they truly believe. WT is an organisation where excommunication takes place if you have ANY independant beliefs or even thinking. You are not permitted to accept scientific fact and accept evolution. You may not bring up your concern that at the very first memorial, not one person was 'anointed'. You may not diagree with 607, there is no doubt in my mind that at least half of JW's disagree with the blood issue. The medical journals indicate that at least 20% of JW's accept blood in secret.
They are not united, they are gagged.
Ruby, I take what you say and totally agree, however I was reffering to freedom of thought and belief, a spiritual imprisonment, a belief system of constraint. Mouse A+B can live in mazes of the same design, i.e. they could both be catholics, but take different directions on some matters. But they are both united in sharing the same construct of belief. Whereas mice B +C have a different lay out to that of A+C, different religious restrictions.
Evolutionary traits answer so many of our questions in life. Religion thrives on tribalism and xenaphobia, harwired traits that keep you alive on the plains of Africa. They make you feel safe, part of a crowd. The deeper to the centre you get the safer you feel, but the centre is reserved for the dominant members, far from the outskirts, the area of risk.
The cost of such comfort and safety? Loyalty/confrmity to the dominant centre, the alpha males.
Fred Phelps died, he saw his non believing grandaughter whilst he was dying a few weeks back, so 8 male members of the church formed a body and removed him from the church for being weak, they even removed him from his house which was based in the church building. Now they have attacked the woman we all associated with the WB Church his daughter, the 8 men have told her to be subdued as she is a woman, they are threatening her excommunication now too. It al plays out, just like a nature documentary.....
If you want unity, give us loyalty, if not out you go alone... We have all experienced it, hence we came here looking to replace that need for a crowd heading in the same direction, as we pass through this time and space in our universe.
