I personally think that poster like Friday play a major role in helping jw who are willing to examine things and I KNOW it helps NONJW to see the foolishness and the level of back tracking , back flipping that is required on the part of a jw to try and explain that THE KING HAS NO CLOTHES
for many jw who lurk here when they see the issues raised, and then backed up by DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE WT, only to be followed up by a poster like Friday or YK who attempt to explain what everyone clearly sees are direct CONTRIDICITONS OF STATEMENT
it helps them put things in prospective, as to why they are not the mouth pc of god as claimed but merely a bucnh of guys giving their best hunch or guess /interpertation on a bible text
as many of you know i have often stated that the wt would have in my view been just fine if they had stayed with BIBLE COMMENTARY
this way they would have the leeway to change, back track and so forth on thier OWN interpertation and views of scripture, but instead of remaining students of the Word, they decide to get up into the seat of MOSES,and the other men of old
the wt continually equates itself to men who invoked being INSPIRED as thier right to speak and be heard
yet wt is very quick to point out that they ARE NOT INSPIRED - yet they demand the same level of respect that the men of old is- and WITHOUT ANY OF THE RESPONSIBLITY when they get it wrong
A perfect example is ALTERNATIVE SERVICE AND TRANSPLANTS
BOTH OF THESE issues were presented to the jw faith and in fact the entire world thru thier publications as the views of god himself-
they quoted a ton of bible text to support that view and even INVOKED DFING if one failed to follow those rules
then years later they tell us it has gone from being a direct voilation of the will of god, punishible by dfing and cut off forever and never getting into the new system TO NOW IT'S A CONSCIENCE MATTER
well when you show a non jw some goofy dogma that was raised to the level of eternal destruction and then it has been reduced to a conscience matter, they quickly see that the men who presented that info were not directed by god in veiw of the fact that folks lost thier lives ,cut off from family by bing df and yet the
WT NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR GETTING IT WRONG
instead they blamed the rank and file- in the case of alternative service they stated that THE BRO CONSCIECE WAS TOO STRICT is why he felt that he could not work at the hopsital , but went to prison
well the well documented paper trail of the wt shows that to be A LIE
AND when lurkers and NONJW are able to read the entire developement of that dogma from start to finish one quickly sees it was not a case of NEW LIGHT just men guessing and screwing up folks lives
i hope that we continue to have folks like Friday post
for in my view we indeed NEED THEM here on these sites to confirm FOR ALL THAT the mind of a jw is indeed control by the Boys in Writing.
FRIDAY KEEP THOSE POST COMING
JAMES
ps
I Want to thank all of you for weighing in on this issue of Hypocrisy on the part of jw who attempt to try and rewrite that the wt has said on issues
the sad part is for folks like Friday and not that i'm directing my comments at him per say for he merely reflects a "MINDSET" oftentimes found among jw, it could be him or we could substitue him with any other jw who fails to see the foolishness of the dogmas and all of thier answers are so CANNED
THAT IS why for the most part we already know how the avg jw will respond to any info that puts the wt in a bad light, their response is almost TEXT BOOK
we have read of post by many here who speak to their family and friends and the exaplaniation they will give is almost word for word
regardless of country, and why WELL IT IS THE ANSWER THAT THE WT GAVE THEM IF SOMONE RAISES THIS QUESTION
and when you ask them to give you THIER THOUGHTS they are totally at a lost
it is truly sad as we watch loyal jw struggle to try and make sense out of what is clearly some of the most foolish rules that the Writing Dept and Service Dept can cook up
case in point - when one does any research on the instructions that elders followed on the issue of a sister being Raped
the instructions change almost every few years on what the poor sister had to do to avoid being df:
had to scream one year
didnt have to scream
had to scream
didnt' have to scream
the sisters got the shaft based on the year they got raped according to the wt rules
and when NONJW and sincere lurkers see rules like that which literally F#$K with folks lives it doesn't take long to realize this AINT THE TRUTH
JUST MY 2
