Weird is the word for this article . Do they really think it to be motivating? Even the dubs in my family thought it to be counter productive and unhelpful.
p1] "Jehovah's great day is very near" ..Ho hum , how many times have we heard that?
p3] I felt so sorry for "Sharon" The poor woman has been the subject of cerebral palsy all her life . She also suffered depression. Although she says the elders helped her. She was lucky on that score. Most of the elders I knew would tramp hob nailed boots over the depressed or get offended by what they said..Still, she says the faith sustains her ...they do say that faith is good for the sick ones. Too bad she believes in a lie, but I should I hope that she never finds out?
p5&6} Do they think that they are the only ones to suffer these things , and cope with them? Many people do , and it is not attributed to the Holy Spirit..
p7] Good news for the lazy and timid witnesses, failure to comment or join the School can now be attributed to a "phobia" at the WT's own description...Much easier to sit and daydream at the meetings now, and get away with it.
Endurance is the theme, so they wheel out some extreme examples so as if to say "Look what they put up with, what are you complaining about?" It all seems designed to make the weary Witness feel ashamed and get back out on the Ministry again .
Reminds me of the fiction charecter "Boxer", the carthorse in Orwell's "Animal Farm" . No matter what his problem was , his motto was "I will work harder" . They worked him to death and sent him to the knackers yard at his end....
