This is an excellent post in my opinion showing how foolish it is to die needlessly. What is also of interest is what the author of this essay states about "conscience" and coercion.
Interestingly, the consciences of people from different religious backgrounds dictate to them different moral stances and dos and don?ts. Hence, it can be concluded that a "conscience" is conditioned and it truly does not necessarily represent the individual's basic desire not to harm others by his actions, but it can be altered by what a person is taught or coerced to believe. So actually, the term "Bible TRAINED conscience" indicates this, namely that an individual has a conscience which is based on what he has been trained to believe what the Bible means, and this shows that a JW's sense of what is good and bad is dictated to him from what the Bible is believed to mean and any point in time. The problem is of course when a conscience foolishly dictates to a person to die needlessly because of a belief. In my opinion, a pure conscience is simple indicating to a person that his actions should never cause any harm to others. Not causing harm to others is what a "normal" human conscience will dictate to any sane individual, without the intrusion of religious training .
What the author of this post fails to do, is to vilify governemnt that have murdered jw's, the blacks, the Jews, and other groups even in the USA. Caesars law my friend does not stand still and that ferryman will not get paid because the Courts have discharged the debt.
What the WTS has also made many poor suckers see, is how religion has murdered millions, the Moslems , the Jews, the Christians...have murdered in the name of God. and what the WTS has also made patriotic idiots realize is the foolishness of becoming a political pawn and many jws did not have to die needlessly in a battlefield or put in the position where they would have to obey an order and murder innocent civilians in wars such as Vietnam, and when many American soldier returned from nam serving their country trusting the government, were craftily exposed to agent orange or who knows what, believing in the governments care for their safety. (on one side the gov murders conscientious objectors jw's or puts them in harms way, on the other side they needlessly murder trusting soldiers exposing them to radiation, agent orange and who knows what) and when returning were spit on the face by Americans opposing the war. The WTS have shown the hypocrisy of "Christian" religious structures that fear the powers and advocate the killing or actually kill fellow "Christians" in national wars The WTS has exposed religion to be a bunch of excrement. I say this respectfully. The WT through out the years has been an expository of Religion and Politics and Science. AIDS!!!!! infected blood transfusion anyone? how about Hepatitis infected? How many people have been infected from blood transfusions? I know some. Asbestos, tobacco, drugs causing genetic defects,.... - until new scientific light- ... Problem is they knew all along. That ferryman never gets paid sir.
What the WT has alerted people to, is to the fallacies that people have trusted in. Medical science is not God and does not perform miracles. Although the benefits of treatments out weigh the risks, there are risks; and a person needs to be aware of all of the facts to make the choice he wishes, but not coerced. Personally, I respect and carefully trust medical counsel. I believe in the eficacy of modern medicine, but I want to be free to decide and not forced accept a cure that I may believe is worse than the pathos.
The state looks out for the law and not the individual. Religion is being shown to be fallacious ritualistic nonsense for the most part and money extractors. True, religions help peeople philanthropically, but you cant trust religion for direction because Religion is enveloped with rituals and doctrines, coercing individuals as this author states,
The WT fearlessly vilified those who have are guilty of shedding innocent blood namely the state, religion, and the greedy which exist with a facade of nobleness. Churches have not publishednor mad their parisioners aware of this. Don?t' solely blame the WTS because loyal believers are murdered by the state or by crafty religious opposers using the state to do their murdering for them . Vilify the real villains who actually kill the jws. Also, put things in their proper perspective; a person that suicides has mental problems. People are fired from the job, divorced, and so on, but that is no reason to suicid and blame the other party for the suicide or to blame the WTS for a df who suicides
Medical science has killed and harmed a lot of people. Will the ferryman collect on that one.?
The information I posted is only my viewpoint. Do not take me out of context. My point is that the WT should not be blamed for crimes committed against jws, and to look at things objectively. I do not wish with my remarks to advocate anything. I just wish to express my viewpoint on the information you posted ,wanting everyone to see things objectively. In hindsight, it was foolish for people to choose to die needlessly because of WT, or any policy; and it is foolish for anyone to choose to die now given the opportunity to live using safe and effective medicine. It would be foolish to choose die because of a teaching.
This is one of the greatest boards on the net, and interestingly founded by jws and posts are by jw fellowsheep or thisfellowshieeepped jws.
