We might remind ourselves of something important when discussing religion and Jehovah's Witnesses in particular.
Religion is chiefly metaphor and emotion. In the mind of a true believer this becomes a substitute for actuality, data and reality.
Language is like a large lump of clay. We mould it into a shape approximating some concept inside our head. But, unless we mould a utility such as a cup or bowl or vase the object is artful and conceptual only.
Confusing LANGUAGE and METAPHOR for the actual reality itself is the magician's secret. It is banal but the very lynch pin that makes the trick work.
Jehovah's Witnesses have a lexicon that has been tampered. It is loaded language with words that have been hijacked, co-opted and rewired to short-circuit ordinary conversation and understanding.
You can't have a meeting of the minds when your language is not identical in meaning.
We are talking essentially about imaginary, legendary, metaphorical and mythological characters and events when we discuss religion and the bible. DON'T FORGET THAT.
You cannot derrive actual sensible conceptual realities from this sort of presupposition that myth is reality.
JEHOVAH is whatever they say He is. In mainstream Christianity he is the Lord and he is 1/3 of a Trinity while simultaneously being just a unit and not a compound. In Watchtowerland He is a split personality god who was like an ancient bearded tyrant devastating those who wronged him and exhalting scoundrels that he favored. But, he stepped into the shadows of history and out popped his Son, Jesus who came back in 1914 like an invisible superhero to fix the mess on planet Earth.
Jesus has had his feet propped up on planet Earth since 1914 letting JW's do his work for him and allowing them to get things wrong again and again while claiming they have special messeges from the King himself.
Is this sort of mental aberration really the source of INFORMATION ABOUT GOD?
Not unless you jump into the pond and bath with the hogs.
There is no "there" there.
Those of us who choose to form a concept of a vastly transcendant being (or beings) who control the destiny of the universe create a simultaneous problem. This concept will get away from us and become driven by our ID. The best and the worst of our selves will break away and project outward into the night sky and we will tremble at its majesty and awful destructive personality.
What benefits us is good. What harms us is Evil.
No person can be good or evil. It is the deeds they perform and the surrounding context of the behavior which creates a result we term Good or Evil.
