Winston Smith :>D	Re: Just Re-Read 1984
	This is long, sorry. But the book freed my thought process. Early this year I read Animal Farm and found it so eerily close to the JW world that I immediately read 1984. I was floored. It forever changed my life as a JW. I always felt that the WTS was rewriting history with their Proclaimer’s book, but never researched it myself. All I knew was that the Proclaimer’s book just felt wrong to me, like they were rewriting their own past. But I always put it out of my mind. After reading 1984; the ruling party, Insog, had a motto that hit too close to the WTS’ MO in the Proclaimer’s book for me to just let it slide. The motto is: 'Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” The WTS controls all information that a JW receives. We can’t talk to a DF’d, DA’d or especially an apostate. We can’t even do an even exchange of literature at the door. That always bugged me. And therefore a JW most often knows no better, because all info is fed to them from the WTS. That’s why the WTS is scared to death of the Internet. They can’t control it. And now that they can’t control the present, their past is coming out to bite them. Their present misdoings are being told. The WTS is losing its stranglehold on the R&F. ~ The thought process needed to survive as a JW is defined in 1984 PERFECTLY by Orwell. The definition of this process is: DOUBLETHINK: The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. Or as said in the book by Winston Smith: “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them… … That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.' All of us did it as JW’s: “We are not here to convert you, we are just doing a Bible education work.” “It’s not true that we believe that only JW’s will survive Armageddon. Only Jesus knows as he is the final judge.” ~ AS JW’s, we are told to avoid words at the door that are familiar only to the WTS organization. That’s because as JW’s, we have our own language. Again, this is addressed in 1984. It’s called: NEWSPEAK: Newspeak is based on standard English, but all words describing "unorthodox" political ideas have been removed. In 1984, a few good examples are: Minipax - Ministry of Peace (war) Miniplenty - Ministry of Plenty (rationing). Minitrue - Ministry of Truth (propaganda) - Department of the government in charge of all record keeping and history re-writing. Now let’s look at some JW words. The negative connotation has been removed, making the word seem good: Privilege: what really amounts to an added burden or work for someone, is now viewed as a blessing from jehover. Disfellowship: someone isn’t kicked out of the congregation and ostracized, but rather the person’s fellowship privilege is no longer available. Hell, it’s not even a word that can be found in a dictionary, let alone to be found in the Bible I’m sure you can think of more. ~ If one even has a doubt about a teaching or the WTS, we are supposed to go the elders for help because we are sick. Here, a JW’s thoughts are controlled by the WTS. In 1984, this is defined as: CRIMETHINK - To even consider any thought not in line with the principles of Ingsoc. Doubting any of the principles of Ingsoc ~ in 1984, there is even a book that is forbidden to read. Possession of it is the greatest act of heresy a citizen of Oceania can commit. It’s titled: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM All this book does is explain the structure of society in straightforward and honest manner. And under a totalitarian regime, that is the single greatest act of thoughtcrime possible. Of course, as JW’s we have such a book also. Possession of it will result in an immediate DF’ing, no Q’s asked. It’s called: Crisis of Conscience, by Ray Franz All it does is explain how the Governing Body operates behind the scenes. Is this terrifying similar to anyone else besides me? ~ Jeez, I could go on with this for a while. Just read the book if you haven’t. It should be required reading for all JW’s or those who never were a JW but want to understand what life was like as a JW. Animal Farm is good too. Read both books if you can. They empowered me to examine me thought process and see that I was an expert at DOUBLETHINK. Winston.
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