Over the years of being on the net there are always some post that just stand out more than others. there is a guy not sure where he is from but his name is Norm, - this guy has no idea the role he played in my leaving wt. He never argues , just presents facts that CAN'T BE DENIED and for me that was the hardest part.
I had to concede that my man had his stuff backed up with proof- page and paragraph
Well I would like to share them with some of you , esp those who may be new to the site.
As you read these post think seriously about what it says about the org that has directed OUR LIVE IN LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES
THEN TO you too make want to save these as well they are just that well researched
enjoy
James
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Posted by N.H. [Pravo] on January 13, 2000 at 00:35:24
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"A sense of urgency"
The above phrase is one of the most cherished in the Watchtower's huge
arsenal of tools for manipulation. It is used to work the average Jehovah's Witness into a sort of frenzy and keep them there. This is of the outmost importance for the Watchtower Society leaders. Many Jehovah's Witnesses has spent their entire lives in this state, hoping and longing for the promises of the Watchtower to come through, only to die of old age after a wasted lifetime peddling worthless books and magazines, which sometimes is outdated before
the ink in them is dry.
Lets take a closer look at the use of this phrase in the Watchtower literature. A search of the CD ROM show that the phrase had its beginning in the sixties:
"Time is fast running out. We may not be slothful nor may we
procrastinate if we would keep clean from the
blood of all men. Truly, woe is us if we do not take
advantage of every opportunity to warn all we can. Let us
give the warning with earnestness and intensity, yes,
with a sense of urgency as though this were our
last time to warn our
hearers. Who knows how soon this actually will be the case?"
Watchtower, October 1. 1960, page 608
"Franz went on to explain that the remarks
of the speaker were
perfectly sane, for God's Word foresaw the
end of World War II, and
following it a postwar peace that would not
last. "Now, here we are,"
Franz continued, "in the twenty-first year
of this peace since World
War II, and the prediction is that this peace
will not last. . . . It should
fill you with a sense of urgency,"
Franz told the students, "to realize
that the sands in the hourglass up above
are running out, and the time
is coming to a close for this work that has
to be done before this peace
ends." Watchtower, April 1. 1966, page 195-6.
Yeah, sure. Like countless other doomsayers Franz is now pushing up daisies. All of them making it a lifetime career showing their insanities down other people's throats. Their "sense of urgency" proved to be little more then a fantasy, and a very sick one at that. In the end of the sixties, when the year 1975 got the attention this phrase was beginning to get more use:
"They Feel the Urgency
One of the most outstanding proofs of the
growing sense of urgency
among God's people is the number of persons
who arranged their
affairs to spend their full time in the preaching
work regularly or for a
vacation period. This past year over 10,000 more
than during the
preceding year enthusiastically took up this
work. This meant many
sacrifices for mothers, fathers, young ones
and older folks."
Watchtower, February 1. 1969. Page 93-4.
"They Are Acting on What They Are Learning
But when they were told about the new six-month Bible-study
arrangement, they were visibly touched. Now for
the first time a real
sense of urgency struck them. They could not bear
the thought of
having all connections with Jehovah's people
severed. So they sent a
letter of withdrawal to the Baptist church
because they knew that they
were not being taught the Bible's truth there.
They began attending all
the Bible meetings of Jehovah's witnesses and
sharing with others the
things they learned."
Watchtower, June 1. 1969, page 347.
"What so amazed the onlookers?… It was the
sense of urgency that
motivates them.
That sense of urgency stems from
the knowledge, gleaned from the
Bible, that soon now, not many years hence,
Jehovah's judgment
against a wicked system of things on earth
will be executed."
Watchtower, February 15. 1970, page 121.
"There is need to participate in that work with a
sense of urgency,
too, for the end of this wicked system of things
is drawing near. The
time is short. The harvest is great and the workers
are few."
Watchtower, July 1. 1973, page 405.
"They feel a sense of urgency as they talk to
people, for they look
upon the short time remaining for this system of
things as a time of
Jehovah's exercise of patience, knowing that he
does not desire the
death of anyone." Watchtower, October 15. 1974,
page 631.
"Working Night and Day" to Make Disciples
JEHOVAH'S organization works with a sense of
urgency. There is a
job to get done."
Watchtower, Mach 15. 1975, page 177.
After the 1975 failure the "sense of urgency" was shelved
until 1978-79. After
1975 several hundred thousand left the Watchtower Society and the remaining
showed a tendency towards leading a normal life. Of course Jehovah's
Witnesses can't be allowed to have a normal life. People living normal lives
don't peddle worthless literature door to door, so here we go again:
"Many would lose the sense of urgency and fail
to keep wide awake.
We could easily become fully occupied with
he normal pursuits of
daily life. Surely in this we must learn how
to look at things from
Jehovah's viewpoint and try to appreciate how
he counts time,
keeping in mind Peter's words: "But the end of \
all things has drawn
close. Be sound in mind, therefore, and be
vigilant with a view to
prayers."-1 Pet. 4:7; 2 Pet. 3:8, 9."
Watchtower, April 15. 1979, page 24-5.
Unbelievable isn't it? They actually tell the R&F that they shouldn't under any
circumstance, "become fully occupied with the normal pursuits of daily life",
amazing, isn't it? In other words, being normal people isn't anything for a real
Jehovah's Witness.
It is quite amusing to notice the completely weird argument for this kind of
strange thinking and worldview, they are quoting a man who was also waiting
in vain for some imaginary deity to perform some imaginary act almost 2000
years ago. The example of Peter does in reality show us how utterly hopeless
this whole idea is. But of course, there will probably be a lot of idiots still
quoting this same text 2000 years from now, with "a sense of urgency".
"Could it be that we are living in a "dream,"
asleep to the reality of
the changing world scene, perhaps spending too much
time and money
in pursuit of material interests? Even as a
dreamer has no sense of
time, have we also lost the sense of urgency
of the times in which we
are living?"
Watchtower, March 15. 1979, page 30.
It is Jehovah's Witnesses who really do live in a dream, totally asleep to the
realities of the world scene. The only urgency any Jehovah's Witness should
feel is to get out of the weird world they live in, and start getting a life. Now,
after the 1914 "rubber band" generation was finally allowed to die, there is a
new tendency among the average Jehovah's Witnesses toward living normal
lives. After several decades of having stretched the "generation" all the way
up to 80 years, Brooklyn is now working extremely hard to convince the
Witnesses that whatever the "generation" means it is an extremely short one,
again the "end" is very near, and the "sense of urgency" phrase is utilized to
its fullest. With all of their "carrots" in the form of some time frame gone, now
remains only the "stick" with which the average Witness must be prodded into
action and a constant repetition of how "urgent" the "time" is, are used as
never before in the Watchtower.
Of course after all the time on this same poor "spiritual diet" the Witnesses are
almost immune to this constant yelling about the "end", after over 100 years of
this, the Watchtower Society continues the mindless tradition of other
fundamentalists in repeating the mantra from 2000 years ago about the "end
drawing close".
"A sense of urgency moves Jehovah's Witnesses
to be zealous in
their ministry, as seen in their spending a total
of 1,096,065,354 hours
in 1994 preaching to their neighbors, making return
visits, and
conducting 4,701,357 Bible studies."
Watchtower, January 1. 1995, page 17,18.
One can hardly imagine a less productive way to spend ones time. An activity
so utterly void of any possible value is difficult to find. Living a life as a victim
constantly on the prowl to create and accumulate new victims of the same
fraud is indeed tragic.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
WHAT is one sure, God-approved way
to keep on serving Jehovah
whole-souled? It is to have a genuine sense of
urgency deep in our
hearts. To serve God in a whole-souled manner
means to serve him
with the whole of our being, and it requires
earnest, implicit obedience
to everything he asks us to do." Watchtower,
October 1. 1995, page
25.
Yeah sure, "implicit obedience" to a bunch of men who in their own senseless
stupidity has gulled you into thinking that "serving Jehovah" is synonymous
with peddling totally hopeless literature to an unsuspecting public.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
It is difficult, however, to put our heart and
soul into our service to
God if we do not have a feeling of urgency deep
within ourselves or if
the sense of urgency we once had has now become
dull-perhaps lost
altogether. Today, we live in a time of urgency
unparalleled by any
other period in man's history." Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page
26.
According to the Watchtower, when has there NOT been "a time of urgency
unparalleled by any other period in man's history!"? Isn't this the very same
nonsense as Peter was advertising about 2000 years ago?
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
Some might raise the logical question, Why
was a sense of urgency
needed back then if the foretold "great tribulation"
was centuries
away?-Matthew 24:21"
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 27.
Yes indeed, why? And why do you still go on about this nonsense after almost
2000 years? For how many more thousands of years will this stupidity continue
before you realize that there is never going to be any "great tribulation"?
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
Furthermore, he knew that his disciples would
themselves benefit
spiritually by maintaining a sense of urgency
until his return."
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 27.
Can you imagine how beneficial it must be to be worked up about the
imminence of something that will never come, and which you will never
experience? How rewarding it must have been to have lived a lifetime waiting
for something that will never materialize?
To have put off an education, to have put off a career, to have put off pursuing
a talent, in short, put off having a life, used your time on endless boring
meetings and assemblies, listening to the same hopeless drivel over and over
again thousands of times!
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
The Christian sense of urgency has served
Jehovah's purpose. It has
helped Christ's disciples to carry out the
progression of their
assignment according to Jehovah's unerring
schedule. And so today,
looking back over nearly 2,000 years, we
understand that divine
schedule more fully."
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 27.
Incredible. If there is one thing that hits hard and with extreme clarity it is the
fact that the Watchtower and the average Jehovah's Witness have absolutely
no clue whatsoever about the "divine schedule"! How sad a spectacle this is.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
Yes, the God-stimulated sense of urgency had a wonderfully
encouraging effect.."
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 28.
Yes, it had a very stimulating effect in 1874, in 1914, in 1925 and 1975, but
immediately after these failures it had the opposite effect.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
The Lord Jesus said that his disciples would
be like "sheep amidst
wolves," and he knew the need for us to keep
a determined, fixed
view in order to combat the world. Yes, we have
been safeguarded,
protected by our Christian sense of urgency.-Matthew 10:16.
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 28.
Sigh.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
Jehovah God in his infinite wisdom has always given
his servants
enough information for them to keep their
sense of urgency alive."
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 28.
Good grief. What information? If there is one thing the Watchtower Society
has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt, it must be it's inability to
understand anything related to the Bible. It's total ignorance screams from
every page of the Watchtower.
"Guard Your Sense of Urgency
Yes, a godly sense of urgency is an integral
part of whole-souled
service to Jehovah. It wards off and helps thwart
the Devil's attempts
to cause God's servants to "get tired and give
out in [their] souls."
(Hebrews 12:3) For all eternity, whole-souled
devotion will cause
Jehovah's servants to obey him, but now, in
these pre-Armageddon
days, a deep, genuine sense of urgency is an
essential part of
whole-souled devotion. May Jehovah our God help all
of us to guard
our sense of urgency while we continue to echo the
words of the
apostle John: "Amen! Come, Lord Jesus."-Revelation 22:20."
Watchtower, October 1. 1995, page 28.
Godly sense of urgency? What on earth has this got to do with God? And here
I thought that thousand years is as one day For God, so how can he possibly
have a sense of urgency?
"A Time to Keep Awake
The need to keep awake is more critical
than it has ever been. Jehovah
has revealed to us "the things that must
shortly take place," and we
should respond with an absorbing sense of
urgency.-Revelation 1:1;
11:18; 16:14, 16." Watchtower, November 1. 1995, page 20.
The incredibly silly idea that "keeping awake" includes running around
shouting about doom and gloom and yelling about some "end" to be imminent
is totally ridiculous. The amazing inability to learn and comprehend the simple
fact that something that was declared to "shortly take place" 2000 years ago,
and still hasn't occurred has lost all meaning. It is indeed a great tragedy to
watch this total waste of time and energy that is caused by the Brooklyn lead
multinational con operation.
Norm.