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  Exposing the Core Premise of JW False Teaching

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  poison is at work in any argument with jehovah's witnesses.

  this poison has little to do with the beauty of watchtower logic or the tasty morsels of jw reasoning.. the poison is odorless and tasteless and it has absorbed into their core premise: scripture interpretation directed by jehovah.. if you buy into the core premise (somebody possesses a divinely granted access to an infallible source of truth) you are already dead in the water.. that is the deal breaker.

  false premises lead always to false conclusions.. stop right here.. the core misrepresentation of christianity solely rests in accepting the bible as the inerrant word of almighty god.

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  Dreary weather
  The Jews were called THE PEOPLE of the BOOK.
  The LAW was written by the "finger of God." Immediately afterward, Moses destroyed the very tablets containing the Law of God. Nobody examined the original tablets.
  The Ark of the Covenant supposedly contained those tablets--but those were NOT the originals.
  The (Christian Greek) Scriptures were not the New Testament we have today. No, it was the Septuagint, which legend has it, was translated by 70 Elders separated from each other and ALL their copies matched exactly! Clearly a myth.
  Christianity was first Jewish Messianic word-of-mouth preaching to Jews. "Faith follows the thing heard."
  But, the New Testament is comprised of very strange things.
  At first, the "Bible" consisted of the letters of Paul collated by Marcion, a Christianized tycoon who contributed lots of money to the Church.
  Marcion darned near created a completely different version of Christianity because his GNOSTIC teachings denied that Jehovah was the true God. Instead, the God of the Old Testament was an evil god. According to Marcion, Jesus was the true God.
  The Church (i.e. universal or Catholic) gave Marcion his donations back and disfellowshipped him.
  To compete with Marcion's collated writings, a separate canon was introduced approved by Church itself.
  This is the first logical disproof of their authority because they approved as true and legitimate MORE books than the Protestants accepted and approved.
  
  Somebody is lying or both or Both are wrong or one is right and the other is wrong.
  In other words--it is all up for grabs, for dispute and unprovable.
  
  Assertions are made, certainly, but in any Court of Law of the land, if you claim to be the heir to a fortune and produce a photocopy of a will--it isn't going to fly.
  BEST EVIDENCE is the autograph will, written in the hand of the deceased, witnessed and notarized.
  The Jews AND the 1st century Christians and the later Protestants are all claiming to be heirs of the kingdom and they can't produce the autograph documents!!
  
  If the Catholic Church did NOT preserve the actual Bible containing proper Christian teaching--they are undoubtedly wrong about most everything else.
  This canon of scripture--IF it were wrong--was allowed to go unchallenged for over one thousand years.
  Martin Luther was either right or wrong to remove the "extra" books.
  Protestant Reformation either wrecked the TRUE church or exposed the counterfeit teachings of the false one.
  
  It isn't a simple matter, is it?
  Without a true, verifiable document, we are betting our lives, fortunes and sacred honor ON THE ASSURANCES of mere mortals with quirky ideas.
  
  That's my point.
  
  
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  Exposing the Core Premise of JW False Teaching

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  poison is at work in any argument with jehovah's witnesses.

  this poison has little to do with the beauty of watchtower logic or the tasty morsels of jw reasoning.. the poison is odorless and tasteless and it has absorbed into their core premise: scripture interpretation directed by jehovah.. if you buy into the core premise (somebody possesses a divinely granted access to an infallible source of truth) you are already dead in the water.. that is the deal breaker.

  false premises lead always to false conclusions.. stop right here.. the core misrepresentation of christianity solely rests in accepting the bible as the inerrant word of almighty god.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I'm guessing you take exception to "inerrant". The major evangelical churches fudge by adding the words "in the originals"--as though there ARE any originals :)
  
  I think a good analogy is in our currency. A legally tendered note of any denomination is "backed up" by the Federal Reserve. At one time the U.S. had a Gold standard which made good on the paper currency. Richard Nixon's inability to finance the Vietnam War (ran out of money) forced going off the gold standard. From that point forward, the Fed could issue I.O.U.'s linked to Oil Reserves (Petro dollar).
  Christianity under Catholicism was backed up by the Pope's infallible pronouncements on faith and morals. The Pope was in effect THE FEDERAL RESERVE :)
  WatchTower leaders try to have it both ways, interpreting Scripture AND making up their own ideas as equivalent to Jehovah's whispers in their ears.
  Their "Truth" is inflationary. They must constantly print (New Light) like new currency to replace the old disproved nonsense.
  
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  Exposing the Core Premise of JW False Teaching

  by TerryWalstrom in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  poison is at work in any argument with jehovah's witnesses.

  this poison has little to do with the beauty of watchtower logic or the tasty morsels of jw reasoning.. the poison is odorless and tasteless and it has absorbed into their core premise: scripture interpretation directed by jehovah.. if you buy into the core premise (somebody possesses a divinely granted access to an infallible source of truth) you are already dead in the water.. that is the deal breaker.

  false premises lead always to false conclusions.. stop right here.. the core misrepresentation of christianity solely rests in accepting the bible as the inerrant word of almighty god.

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  TerryWalstrom

  
  

  EXPOSING the CORE PREMISE of JW FALSE TEACHINGS

  Poison is at work in any argument with Jehovah's Witnesses. This poison has little to do with the beauty of WatchTower logic or the tasty morsels of JW reasoning.

  The poison is odorless and tasteless and it has absorbed into their core premise: Scripture Interpretation directed by Jehovah.

  If you BUY into the core premise (somebody possesses a divinely granted access to an infallible source of truth) you are already dead in the water.

  That is THE deal breaker. False premises lead always to false conclusions.

  Stop right here.

  The core misrepresentation of Christianity solely rests in accepting the Bible as the inerrant Word of Almighty God.
  What logically follows from swallowing that poison is what leads to cults and denominations’ next step: offering personal interpretation as the only true interpretation.
  A leads to B. Buy one and get one free!

  This false premise is planted in your head practically from birth. It is inescapable. You find it everywhere like Santa Claus at Christmas.

  THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD and INERRANT?

  Is it worth asking the right question about this????

  What is the right question?

  WHY DIDN'T GOD PRESERVE the original documents?

  Original?

  (i.e.Moses,David,Paul, etc-sat-down-and-wrote-these-words-on-this-animal skin or papyrus.)

  IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ORIGINALS AT ALL, what DO you have? Obviously, all you have is somebody's assurance 1. There was an original 2. It was copied accurately. (Without number 1. All you’re left with is an I.O.U. for 2.)

  Sleight-of-hand! Your having to trust the assurance rather than the word of God itself. One is cold cash while the other is a promise of cash.

  Neat trick, eh?

  If GOD did not see fit to preserve the ORIGINAL (Spoiler Alert!) and He didn't…
  Why trust the assurances of those who stand to gain by interpreting it for us?

  You cannot get past this PREMISE, this fatal flaw, the foundation of Christianity and of Jehovah’s Witnesses. There is no original manuscript preserved to be used to prove anything at all.

  The original Bible "books" do not exist anywhere on Earth. We are forced to accept neither the apostles nor the church 1. Thought enough of them to preserve them 2. Had any in the first place.

  Jesus never wrote a word of scripture. His teaching was oral.

  We are told (by others) those who heard his teachings wrote down what they knew.

  Well---DID THEY REALLY?

  How do you KNOW?

  IF THIS PREMISE IS FALSE......then what??

  1.The Catholic Church would have had to develop its religious doctrines based on the authority of men.

  2.The authority of church officials would be considered equal to that of God.

  3.The activities of the church would indicate how "divine" they were.

  4.All the early Christian believers would simply be groups of OPINION MAKERS who interpreted opinions of leaders they found worth listening to.

  5.Nobody could prove the superiority of one opinion over and above another's without source authority to point to for refutation.

  6.The Church would have to try and settle all the fights, arguments, disagreements and clashing orthodoxies with an OFFICIAL canon and pronouncement of right belief. (All because there was no original manuscript to settle those matters.)

  7.The Church would have to use its self-created official status to destroy all opposition by declaring heresy punishable by death. Counter opinion would have to be eliminated by burning documents and destroying naysayers in the harshest possible manner.

  Well--isn't this EXACTLY what history shows happened?

  The 73 books approved and canonized by the official Christian Church did not prevent that same organization from committing foul deeds throughout the millennia. The fruits of their core premise were dastardly.

  When Martin Luther challenged Church authority and inadvertently split Christianity yet again---the Bible was the first thing to be challenged as to authenticity!!

  Where are those 73 canonized books purported to be the true word of God?

  7 of those books were simply tossed out because they did not match Luther's ideas! So much for the inerrant message from the True God passed on by the authority of The Catholic Church.

  For a millennia the church would kill anybody who asserted against their magisterium or anyone who tried to place Scripture ahead of official pronouncement.

  Martin Luther, in effect, put his thumb in the eye of Mother Church by asserting a NEW PREMISE.

  What was his PREMISE?

  NEW PREMISE

  1. God doesn't rule men through an Organization.

  2.Each Christian is authorized by God to his own bible to discover God’s message of salvation, hope, and truth. In Luther’s words: Sola Scriptura (the Bible alone).

  Since the 16th Century, the BIBLE alone was the new PREMISE replacing (go ahead, say it) Organized religion.

  You and I--if we grew up in a non-Catholic household of Christian faith--were served this PREMISE on our plate. We grew up with it.
  Here’s a scary question.

  WHAT IF THIS PREMISE IS AN ERROR as well??

  1.Does there exist a True God who communicates with humanity through a book without any original manuscript to back up such claim?

  2.If not--how does Christianity get away with opinions pretending to be Divinely authorized?

  3.Why should any of us be bound by opinions, claims, counterfeits?

  4. Why waste time arguing scriptural interpretation when no scripture of any kind is demonstrably DIVINE?

  Clearly, such “religion” is only a man-made tool for controlling the behavior and loyalty of people gullible enough to swallow the poison.

  The Watchtower Society embraces BOTH false premises:

  1.WatchTower is a provably ever-changing organization of men pretending to authority to interpret Truth and enforcement of orthodoxy

  2. WatchTower’s divine communication between God and man with them as the channel of interpretation is a lie.

  The WORST of both lies is embodied in one false premise.
  WatchTower's organization is what the Catholic Church was no matter how you slice it. Men pretending to be able to tell you how to live while saying it isn't really them saying it. At the same time, they point to the Bible as a source authority redundantly. The Bible they've gone out of their way to rejigger over and over again (proving how malleable a non-sourced prop it really is.)
  
  

  Food for thought.
  We live in a real world and our life is finite in length. Do we need to waste our time arguing scripture, interpretations of scripture, when the only strategy worth asserting is aimed at Jehovah’s Witnesses Achilles heel; their false premise?
  How can you believe you have The Truth based on interpretation of the Bible when the Bible itself has no valid foundational documents preserved?
  Stick with that and you’ll expose the house of cards on which WatchTower teaching rests.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  TerryWalstrom

  I was a Fort Worth Texas boy who later (1974) moved to Redondo Beach for 10 years. I'm back in Fort Worth.
  
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  The "push back" came in the form of an avalanche of phone calls and letters to Watch Tower headquarters with every manner of counter-argument, rebuttal, and alternate lines of query.
  A couple of examples are in order. Brothers who could not perform sexually because of injury were anguished at having their only means of satisfying an otherwise deprived wife denied to them. It was not a matter of "cheap thrills" for them.
  Another example. JW wives with unbelieving mates were placed in a double blind which threatened to destroy their marriage. Who were they more obliged to listen to, the head of the house, the husband--or the opinions of old men in Brooklyn twisting scriptures with dirty minds?
  (Presented more elegantly, of course :)
  
  Tens of thousands of letters signaled a BIG problem at a time in which the Watch Tower was on thin ice having gone too far in predicting the End of 6,000 years of human history in 1975. They were overreaching in broad daylight and they suddenly knew it.
  Fighting a battle on two fronts is suicide. So, they back peddled.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  I was having one of those "deep" thoughts last night, trying to fall asleep.
  You know how the math professors tell us that infinity is as large between integers as it is from one to zero? (Don't feel bad if that doesn't ring a bell :)
  I thought about that in hopes my brain would click OFF. It didn't.
  The "distance" between 1 and 2 is infinite because you can divide the space into halves over and over and over (I/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 infinitely smaller.
  
  Well SUDDENLY, I thought about memories and how you can divide them into smaller and smaller stories, each (if told properly) just as interesting as the big story.
  
  We divide the day into 24 hours and we're awake about 18 of those hours.
  Those 18 hours are the same length for every man, woman, child, and June bug on our planet.
  Each one of those days says "goodbye" to a large group of people. (151,600 people die each day.)
  For their families, the BIG story for that day is the death of a loved one.
  The rest of us might be having a very boring day or the most fun we ever had.
  An infinity of memories is gained and lost each second.
  
  Okay, Terry, you're putting the reader to sleep--get to the point already...
  
  Fine. Here goes.
  Jehovah's Witnesses are barely a blip in history and a lesser blip during our lifetime compared to what's going on in the rest of the world. However, JW's don't see things that way at all. Noooo. They see an infinity of importances in everything done by their Watchtower Organization because it supposedly affects eternity.
  We thought like that once upon a time.
  Now we look back on that nonsense as no more important than a ketchup stain on a white shirt.
  So many of us see the same things in an infinity of ways. It is important to tell our story our own way. If we all do, the others have a way of looking at the BIG PICTURE as a context rather than the infinity of emotions from one tiny POV.
  
  We should all try to make sense of our JW episode.
  There is something important to be learned about human nature in it.
  The more of us who write and speak and discuss--the better our vantage point in unraveling the mystery of our mind control and escape.
  
  Yes, that sort of thinking really did put me to sleep. Probably you too :)
  
  
  
  
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  I have a good friend, a young man, he's still in--except--his mind is out of there.
  He's hanging on to his family and his fiancee's family.
  
  He tells me the young men--his friends/Brothers--"engage in loose conduct" and then
  SNITCH THEMSELVES OUT.
  The fear and guilt overwhelm them.
  Girls are mostly put on probation while the boys may be DF'D.
  Armageddon may be any day now--but the urges cause them to flirt with 'death.'
  
  Really, it is very 17th Century.
  The bottom line is this. The young are not body-controlled--but they are MIND controlled.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  The pushback (re oral sex) was a gigantic tsunami back in the 70's and I'm pretty sure it must have scared the crap out of the GB. The prohibition mutated into a 180-degree position shift.
  A matter of "conscience"--is--a fallback for Pharisees caught puppeteering.
  JW leaders have never trusted "conscience."
  In 1967, I was taken into the back library by the Congregation leaders and told what my "conscience" was telling me to do about the Draft.
  I was also given clear instructions never to state out loud to anybody who asked how I was coached, advised, or otherwise taught by my religion's leaders.
  It must keep the GB awake at night wondering how to get into the mechanism of conscientious people and install the remote control so dear to their self-aggrandizing power fetish.
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  I'll get around to the "rest of the story" very soon...
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  Jehovah's Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  by TerryWalstrom in

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  jehovah’s witnesses and the picnic extinction.

  (“those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”).

  it was another world back then; another time and another place.. you had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable jehovah’s witness under the watchtower presidency of nathan h. knorr--social gatherings (backyard bbq’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic.

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  Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Picnic Extinction

  
  

  (“Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end…”)

  
  

  It was another world back then; another time and another place.

  You had to have been there to have any sense of it--as a young, impressionable Jehovah’s Witness under the Watchtower presidency of Nathan H. Knorr--social gatherings (backyard BBQ’s, swimming parties) among the ‘friends’ consisted of having a great time at a get together or a picnic. It was not at all as it is today.

  Let me tell you about it.

  Pull up a chair. I’ve got a story or two to share

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  I was a young teenage boy, not yet baptised, surrounded by beautiful female creatures. My genes and hormones had a chance to orient and adjust themselves toward natural mating instincts. If I hadn’t shown up at the local Kingdom Hall, being a shy boy in Ft.Worth would have condemned me to a vacuum of solitude. Inside the Kingdom Hall, however, it was fertile mating grounds!

  
  

  Era-wise, I found myself in the peaceful eye of the Watchtower hurricane.

  The wartime chaos of Judge Rutherford’s presidency was over and a more businesslike gentleman, Nathan Homer Knorr, was busy organizing efficient preaching methods rather than picking fights and creating upheaval.

  
  

  Back in the 1950’s and 60’s, JW’s were practically living like Amish folk in some rural setting as far as sophistication. Such outside nonsense such as beatniks, rebels with / without a cause, rock n’ roll music, or sexual revolution had nothing to do with peace inside your local Kingdom Hall.

  Born-in Dubs didn’t go to suggestive movies, listen to loud music, or watch violent TV shows.

  Only outsiders (like me) who loved horror films, shoot-em-ups, romantic comedies and such had “notions” of what boys and girls did together (if they ever got together). My ideas were only as sophisticated as Hollywood writers had made them seem.

  
  

  A sister of my best (JW) friend told me cryptically and suggestively, “Terry, girls want the same things boys want--but--we need to be coaxed into it under the right circumstances.”

  I confess: I didn’t know what the hell that meant! I did suspect it might be dirty. (Or at least I hoped)

  Eventually, I found out. (I married her.)

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  PICNICS

  
  

  When Jehovah’s Witnesses put on a picnic at a local park or one of the 6 lakes around Ft. Worth, you could count on 3 things for sure.

  1. Chaperones watching your every move

  2. Lots of the opposite sex (especially from nearby towns) arrived to check each other out.

  3. Fun, games, laughter (like real people) and sneaky flirting would occur.

  
  

  For a shy kid like me, watching smooth Brothers chat up a Witness girl was quite an education. But not in a good way. It was immediately obvious to me they were DOING IT ALL WRONG!

  How did I know?

  I had watched Rock Hudson with Doris Day, Cary Grant with Sophia Loren, Troy Donahue with every young actress in Hollywood. Those guys were funny, smooth, suave, and swept the girls right off their feet.

  The best Hollywood writers allowed for banter, wit, clever conversations filled with delightful double-entre.

  
  

  Sadly--that wasn’t the case for Watchtower boys!

  JW boys were clunky, corny, over eager and dull.

  
  

  What puzzled me for awhile is why the JW girls pretended they were enjoying it. The answer was so simple I had overlooked it. Dub girls were BORED with their lives and the total lack of opportunity to BE GIRLS, to be fun and sexy! The only chance they had for dating or conversation (or other ‘stuff’) with the opposite sex--maybe some “bad Association” to spoil their useful habits-- was pretending the Witness boys were

  A-m-a-z-i-n-g.

  
  

  At a swimming party, JW girls wore one piece swimsuits.

  For JW boys, they may as well have been cavorting naked--it energized the same impact on our hormones! We were like Elizabethan era gentlemen catching a scandalous glimpse of a lady’s ankle!

  BOOM! CRASH! Be still my beating heart-on. (Yes, I said that.)

  
  

  Once we had plunged our throbbing bodies in the lake, we gradually inched our way toward the center and out of the line-of-sight of chaperones. We could “engage” in conversation and maybe even an embrace. (All this shocking language may be too much for you. If so, I apologize :)

  
  

  My point in telling you this is obvious. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls--except--if you were one of Jehovah’s Witnesses--the tensions and suppression and constant surveillance made it barely possible to express all the exploding feelings of puberty and beyond.

  But on picnics: IT WAS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING!

  
  

  Eventually, the sexual revolution and the Youth Rebellion of the late 60’s and early 70’s created a tidal wave which spilled over from “worldly” spaces into the Kingdom Halls. Almost every young person had access to media and figured out the world at large was having way MORE FUN than they were.

  
  

  For us, there was only modest, godly dating.

  Dating meant you-know-what. Experimentation with out-of-control hormonal expressions of exploratory delight. (In other words, you were in a duel between what you wanted to do and what you’d be allowed to get away with. Note: you both hoped you’d lose.)

  
  

  The Dallas JW girls motored over to Ft. Worth to scope out the Ft. Worth boys and eventually, everybody dated everybody else in the ‘food-chain.’

  It was like a sanitized group orgy of experimentation without any actual sex. (Allegedly).

  
  

  The goal could only be one thing: MARRIAGE!

  
  

  You couldn’t be a Jehovah’s Witness unless you figured out that’s what Dub girls were ‘for.’ We were under a big reinforced delusion that marriage solved the ugly sex problem.

  Guess what? It did NOT solve the problem.

  
  

  So many JW guys had extreme hang-ups about sex they were messed up in their head.

  They wanted sex but were made to believe their thoughts and actions were unnatural, evil, and wrong…(leading to being murdered by death angels at Armageddon coming soon to a battle near you.)

  
  

  JW males took out their frustration on their wives by dominating them and controlling their homestead like Medieval liege Lords. Can you say, “Me Freud--you Jane”?

  
  

  I digress…

  PICNICS ended. Party’s ended. Social gatherings after books studies ended.

  Why?

  The Watchtower Organization would not and could not give up their obsession with total CONTROL over their members. (And the members of their male members, wink-wink-nudge-nudge.)

  A crackdown on how Dub girls dressed, how they wore makeup became ever more control over the years. Even married JW’s felt the icy penetrating stare of Governing Body invigilators in the bedroom. In 1972, the official denouncement of oral sex struck the Kingdom Halls like the Black Plague.

  A letter to the Watchtower asked if it were okay for married people and the answer was a supersonic bang: NO! (Note: apparently such behavior was only for homosexuals to enjoy).

  
  
  

  More and more repressive pressures applied from the Governing Body of the Watchtower in public and private life ratcheted down on the squirming humanity inside the Kingdom Halls.

  The disappearance of Picnics and parties was just a symptom of the greater problem of CULT LIFE. Yes, it only becomes truly provable how much of a cult the Watchtower Organization truly is when you view the overwhelming mind control instituted over the decades, like a python swallowing its prey.

  
  

  Today, JW sisters aren’t allowed to date a young JW lad unless he has Congregation privileges of one sort or another. This insidious strategy is obvious. Young horny JW’s can’t date unless they pass the litmus test of congregation duties first. Girls will never have a chance at sex unless they marry. They can’t marry unless they date pre-approved boys willing to knock doors, give sermons, and uphold the dictates of the corporate overlords.

  
  
  

  The memories of a relaxed era of innocent fun at PICNICS is a distant memory now. It was a kinder, gentler social atmosphere back then. I was fortunate to have known such a time because I developed social awareness around girls. It probably wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

  As for my story?

  I was engaged to a young JW girl just before I went off to prison as a conscientious objector. While I was away, JW boys kept asking her out on dates (knowing full well her situation) and she finally decided it was all innocent fun. I got my feelings hurt (i.e. heart broken) and that was that. How blind could I be? I was out of the dating/mating pool for a couple of years.

  
  

  Two years later, the first social get together after my parole was at--what else--a picnic.

  I was a hot commodity, believe it or not.

  I would have been pre-approved by any JW father for dating his daughter.

  Some day, soon maybe...I’ll tell THAT story.

  But for now--the story of Picnic Extinction is just as I’ve described it.

  
  

  “We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun…”

  NEVERMORE!

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