Pictures in the latest two WT study articles left me with an uncomfortable feeling, which leads me to wonder if HS is ever inspiring the GB members in charge (I suppose there are such ones) of editing WT study articles before them being printed.
First, there was that picture last week where a JW man is meant to give his work colleagues a « fine witness » as, during break time, he is reading his Bible, and it is implied that, in doing so, he is triggering the interest of one of his work mates who, at first, looks rather suspicious.
In fact, that JW man is sitting ten steps away from his colleagues and reads his Bible quite ostentatiously. At watching that picture, Instead of thinking of a « fine witness » being given, any onlooker will say that this man’s attitude is pharisaïc and delivers the message that he his holier than all those around who belong to the sinful world and he doesn’t want to mingle with them.
So, one can ask the question : When seeing the picture, wasn’t the GB member in charge inspired by HS to remember Mt. 6 : 1 where Jesus warns his disciples : « Take care not to practice your righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them » and, farther at Mat 6 : 6 « you, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting the door, pray to your father who is in the secret » ?
The second picture was in today’s study article. In the spirit of that article, it shows a JW man, in jail, praying hard, probably in behalf of his persecutors. Now, it doesn’t seem that that man has been so ill treated because his shirt is impeccable, he is neatly shaved and his hair nicely cut, combed and sprayed.
I wonder what the poor JWs who are currently rotting in Erythrean jails think of how the GB sees their real plight and if they don’t start suspecting that to these pampered old men the outer world doesn’t go much beyond Manhattan.