Sugar Shane
WTF is up with all this 'secret squirrel' bullshit?!
I'm not a JW, so from my perspective, it seems like they view themselves as equal, or similar to a government agency. What a crock! I have filled out various government forms in the past, such as the US Nat'l Agency Questionnaire, and other forms for civil service. My employment has not required a confidential or above security clearance, but I'm pretty familiar with the screening process.
The distinction is, that these Gov't forms actually mean something, and they carry the weight of the law-- such as when you file your taxes.
These JW elders, and their higher ranking members seem convinced that their little system of forms and BOE letters equates to some kind of official, important, high-level, secret correspondence. Maybe that's the case within their little fishbowl. But, for those of us on the outside looking in, it just looks pathetic
Great post Sugar Shane and you are right...that is exactly how they view themselves.
Only they feel superior to any earthly government or agency.
They feel that way while at the same time, mimicking the forms and the procedures used by those entities.
Even their use of a "judicial" system as they put it when their code of ethics is transgressed upon by a member is a very inferior imitation of a legal system. I say inferior because while they use legal terms, the JW system does not have the checks and balances or any real judicial system Not to mention it is also lacking the training given to the supposed "judges".