Being provoking can be quite good . . .

by Spike Tassel 26 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    Being provoking can be quite good,
    If it means we're better understood.
    Even better than that, which we surely must be
    Is to be under the hand of Theocracy.

    The way of the Truth is quite simple, Christ said.
    It's the narrow, cramped road that we do well to tread.
    The broad-minded way that men thinks in their mind
    Turns into many as they leave God behind.

    Hallelu Yah is not Yee-haw!
    The one is quite reverent; the other: outlaw!
    The one is blessed with self-control;
    The other is just on a roll!

    C.S. Lewis and Mister Tolkien
    Are still popular fare and widely seen
    But what does the Bible, a superior tome
    Say about the worlds they chose to roam?

    Mysticism and magic, potions and tricks
    Are a trap for those curious to adventure flicks.
    The profit-loving seekers are blind to the light
    For they mix up and twist up both wrong and right.

    Birthdays are most holy for Satanists
    They glorify self with the focus on lists.
    Of guests and of treats and of fun, fun, fun.
    And of anything they want under the Sun.

    It's easy for many to quote the day
    When their Mom and the Doctors labored away.
    But the gift of life was months before
    When Jehovah chose their parents for the awesome chore.

    We each have the choice as to what we'll provoke.
    It's much more serious than a rhyme or a joke.
    Do we live just within in our comfort zone?
    Or do we rather live higher, by the truths from Jah's throne?

    — Spike Tassel.

  • Black Sheep
    Black Sheep

    It didn't work for Rutherford.

    He spent his life provoking hatred against himself and his followers and died of cancer of the bunghole.

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    this poem isn't about Rutherford, actually

  • reniaa
    reniaa

    nice poem spike :)

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    Thanks, Renny. I grew up on Seuss,

    so rhyming can be quite natural for me.

    It's a fun way to write, and even have use.

    It can make several points, and bend at the joints.

  • quietlyleaving
    quietlyleaving

    by all means be provocative here but don't expect the outcome to be "good". We've mostly tried being "good" under theocracy but it felt too much like being on the broad road which narrowly precluded provocation.

    have you tried being provocative at the KH spike?

  • Spike Tassel
    Spike Tassel

    I do it all the time with my singing. Provoking is inciting. Like Inciting "to love and fine works" (Hebrews 10:24), which we can do even on JWN.

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    sounds like a rhyming of the teachings on last year's new release Keep Yourself in God's Love....I remember well the bs about birthdays being Satanisitic...

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento

    So, when Jesus was born and the angels celebrate din heaven, that was Satanic ??

    Never understood the issue of marking the day we are blessed by God and a child comes into our world...

    Neither did JW's and the WT in the begining...

    Serioulsy, this fetish for B-days that JW's have, you guys have to really get over it, I mean, forest meet trees !

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