Confusing Christian Love With Survival

by sabastious 8 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  sabastious

  Christian love is what a Watchtower member considers their cardinal attribute. They will quote the Apostle Paul's definition of love in a heartbeat because they are convicted that they do their best to live up to it.

  In the Watchtower world the members are instructed to always be setting "spiritual goals." Their prefered state is one where they are constantly driving towards something spritual. Every person differs in speed and intensity while applying this concept imparted upon them by their Governing Body. They are instructed to watch each other specifically looking for flaws in one another. This is in the name of the protection of their place in God's love and in demonstration of their obedience to him through his earthly leaders. While they watch each other, internally cataloging their spiritual shortcomings, they are fed each week "spiritual food" that gives "encouragement" as to what a "true Christian" believes, thinks and acts.

  All Witnesses know they are being watched. They also know what they are being watched for as they all get the same material/instructions. Their emotional brain's then attach their survival within the group to the "list" provided from "God's weekly spiritual food."

  When a Witness reads the Apostle Paul's words about true love they actually believe they make that cut because in their minds survival has been a success. When a person lives their life under constant scrutiny from all social directions they just start living to survive.

  -Sab
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  N.drew

  Many people might not understand what you wrote, but I do.

  I think sabastious you have just described what means "beat the fellow slaves" in Matthew 24:49.

  Does anyone know if Im wrong? I could be wrong.
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  N.drew

  I know how they do it. And it's illegal, but it isn't world, it's spirit. The GB say they themselves are existing in a "spiritual paradise". And the rank and file believe them (but I don't know why). Then them going to meetings, studying, and doing the field service and are not experienceing the "spiritual paradise" just get to thinking they are not doing it right. They are, but they do not get the reward, instead they get spiritually "beaten". How is it illegal? It is a bribe (the bribe being imagined paradise) and extortion (google it). Apply it to spiritual. Please. Thanks.
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  sabastious

  I think sabastious you have just described what means "beat the fellow slaves" in Matthew 24:49.

  Which makes the Watchtower ironic an a truly epic scale. Almost like a joke...

  -Sab
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  sabastious

  Many people might not understand what you wrote, but I do.

  I presume you are speaking about "still in" Witnesses. If you had to guess, why wouldn't they understand and how would they react to my post?

  -Sab
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  Violia

  sounds a bit like the Stockholm syndrome. you will stay with your abuser b/c you have no where else to go, you now have to rely ion them to save

  you.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
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  N.drew

  It's spiritual for one thing, spiritual understanding is hands off for the "faithful", only GB does spiritual (not!).

  Then you say "they" but we are they, they are not they. I love questions!

  OK. How would they react? It's demonic, obviously, it would shake them up for awile,

  until penance is completed, it might give some people a headache.

  But I love to search for meaning, so for me, I call it fun.
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  sabastious

  sounds a bit like the Stockholm syndrome. you will stay with your abuser b/c you have no where else to go, you now have to rely ion them to save you.

  Finding out what happened in our brains is a bit of a brain teaser itself. If my mother read my OP she would immediately cry persecution. She would insist that what I refer to as "Witnesses spying on other witnesses" is actually a provision from the Faithful and Discreet Slave Class. She would defend their social way of life as a safeguard from blood guilt, in the name of congregational purity and perfectly Biblical. Her defense would be staunchly presented with a peculiar conviction as if she were describing the sky's color to me and that I was blinded to the truth.

  What's interesting to me is that if everything the Watchtower said was true then she'd be right in that conviction. It's her Watchtower fantasy that, at some point, bled into her reality effectively giving her fantasy arguments actual weight in the real world.

  I have also though that maybe she gave the Watchtower too much of herself. Maybe so much that she now doesn't feel that it's worth it to let go of the majority of her life. She continues on, with shackles in place, to await her fate.

  My mother, like me, was born with those shackles already firmly in place. She was captive of a concept the moment she begun to exist. So, yes, Stockholm fits almost perfectly.

  -Sab
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  darth frosty

  Can Anybody see this? I posted twice on this thread and they dont show!