The WTS and it's members inability to face it's past/history, funny?

by jookbeard 23 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  The Almighty Homer

  Most JWS don't know dick about the history of their own religion, even ones who been involved in it for decades.

  This has been done intensionally by the organization themselves. I spent 20 years with this religion and not once did

  I read anything about C T Russell and the bible student association, the indoctrination process caries with it information control

  that only supports the notion that this really is god's solemn organization here on earth and followers are subjectively programed

  to think that at all times.

  The WTS. was constructed on self commercialized BS and developed its strength and wealth on that singular premise.

  You can also best believe that the handlers of this billion dollar worldwide corporation are going to hang on as long as possible

  for all of the money and power that it has gained.
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  glenster

  
  The JWs leaders apply their harsh shunning rules to persistent disagrement
  with any of their special rules. Agreement with all of them is required for
  membership. A customer who gets wise to the JWs leaders' methods of making
  those rules seem guaranteed as meant by the Bible by the best evidence and
  reasoning isn't around to spread the information to the other customers for very
  long. It's the best Bible-sounding reason the JWs leaders can come up with for
  damage control given that their customers aren't living in an isolated camp but
  are spread door to door to sell the merchandise.
  
  I normally never pick on the followers, but since the post asks about their
  allegiance to the JWS leaders, it might be helpful to research how a sociologist
  would describe the ties created when someone bonds with others in their priority
  group. (Their priority group can be something good or bad--from a charity or-
  ganization to organized crime.)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociologist
  
  The JWs leaders have their customers form bonds with friends and family in the
  same marketing group. Persistent disagreement with a JWs leaders' specialty can
  result in being shunned by friends and family. An extreme example of a bad pri-
  ority group is the one created by Adolf Hitler, who imposed punishment on anyone
  who disagreed with his propaganda about his inhumane rules. As compared to
  Allied forces, which sent in new troops as they were required, Hitler had his
  troops buddy together in training camp before sending them onto the field,
  resulting in troops which defended Berlin as the bombs were closing in on it.
  
  Don't lead yourself on about the effect of an evidential expose. A book on
  ancient astronauts might sell millions and Uri Geller might become a close
  friend of Michael Jackson, but the expose book will only sell thousands--more
  people want to see support that a belief is proven true than see that it's only
  possible or even disproven. An example is shown by Peter Popoff. How much
  better an expose of him as having deceived could you want than the one supplied
  by James Randi on the Tonight Show? Popoff went bankrupt in 1987 after the
  expose but is back now bigger than ever.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts
  http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2008/11/erich_von_daniken_twilight_of.php
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pseudoarchaeology
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pseudoscience
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_About_Uri_Geller
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HQOVqyAxM&NR=1
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLSI45raeHI
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zl3I5y4cZc
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxqRN5vjDHQ
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Popoff
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  Old Goat

  When reading the new book on Nelson Barbour and his relationship to Russell I was struck by two things. The authors politely say that an unnamed Witness historian tried to stop the book from seeing print because he thought it would show the watchtower religion to be less than divine. They quote from Hebert Stroup's rather disorganized book from the 1940's. Stroup's comment was:

  “There is no unified historical record of the movement and on the whole the present-day followers are totally ignorant that the group has a history. The majority of those whom I questioned did not even know the year of its founding. Many Witnesses would like to assume that the organization, being inspired of God, never had an earthly beginning. Some actually told me that it dated back to a period before the creation of the world. Others said that the problem of the organization’s history was trivial beside such a monumental task as that in which they are now engaged.”

  Being totally ancient, I remember how excited I was when The Watchtower published a series of history articles back in 1955. The excitement diminished when I tried to follow up on some of what was written. The Watchtower organization is only interested in using "history" to promote its view of itself as God's modern-day mouth piece. As disappointing as those articles were back in 1955, the piqued my interest.

  Of course the Watchtower isn't alone in fearing its own history, but it makes no sense to hide what others can find. I noted that the authors of the book editorialize about that over on their blog. I wonder if they're getting fed up with resistance from their own people.

  Both the book and the author blog are well worth reading. They have just put up bits of research on Russell's early Adventist contacts. I’m pleased that they produce the sources for their research, something the Watchtower’s Proclaimers book fails to do.

  The blog is here: truthhistory.blogspot.com

  The book is here:

  http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/nelson-barbour-the-millenniums-forgotten-prophet/7645313
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  jehovahsheep

  we have been in armageddon for quite awhile and i believe the great tribulation has just started.