Is Wt signalling that Salvation WT Style is a shaky proposition ?
by prologos 6 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
-
-
prologos
The Sept 2013 Awake quotes experts saying that any wooden vessel the size of NOAH'S ARK is not feasable. never been build, sailed successfully,
stories of such wooden monstrosities are EXAGGERATIONS. but:
THE ARK in WT parlance is the symbol of the means of salvation at Armageddon, the anti-typical Flood, which happened only 2400 years before Christ (Jesus at the halfway point between us and the flood!)
ARK=ORGANISATION without the ARK: no salvation, without, or OUTSIDE the ORG: no salvation!.
so: is it just an Exaggeration, this Salvation?.
The human race is here today not because our ancestors were inside the ARK,
we are here because there never was a world wide Everest-covering Flood.
The ARK size story is in doubt.
WT doubt.
as printed on page 15 g sept 2013.
-
Jeffro
Indeed.
I thought it was also interesting that on the very next page, there's a brief article about penguin feathers. (Clearly a topic of life-saving importance.)
But not just any penguins. Emperor penguins.
At the end of the article, it asks the leading question, Did the emperor penguin’s feather coat come about by evolution? Or was it designed?
When JW literature insists that traits of a particular species of penguin 'must' have been designed, they are implicitly forced to admit that the ark would have to have contained pairs of each 'designed' species rather than just a single pair of very broad 'kinds'. Otherwise, the traits unique to specific species weren't designed, but were the result of gradual genetic variation.
Idiots.
-
Jeffro
It's almost as though they're trying to get rid of the more intelligent JWs.
As I said on this forum a year or so ago:
But aside from that, I've had a theory (just a theory) for a little while about some of the things published recently by the Watch Tower Society - 'Selma and Steve', attitude toward those who leave, and now the Sparlock DVD. It seems to me that the Society might put out some of these unfavourable messages to deliberately shed some members, hanging on to the hard-core JWs and letting go of some of the 'fringe-dwellers' who consume literature for very little return to the Society. That is, those who are less likely to accept everything, more likely to do independent research, less likely to distribute literature, and, most importantly, less likely to donate.
This pattern is consistent with JWs becoming more insular, and the GB putting more focus on a 'spiritual paradise' as 'separate', which will gradually allow them to put less focus on a 'literal' paradise, so they can then claim that the 'kingdom' is here and Armageddon was symbolic after all. See http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/134823/4/The-Great-Tribulation-is-picking-up-speed#4163800 -
Julia Orwell
I think you could be onto something there Jeffro.
-
Jeffro
I wonder if it would be drawing a long bow to suggest that their article about emperor penguins could allude to the Watch Tower Society's ridiculous claims being somewhat like The Emperor's New Clothes.
Of couse, now I'm just speculating wildly for fun. Maybe.
-
Phizzy
I think your idea, Jeffro, about them shedding members deliberately has great merit.
When a business has cash flow problems it has to employ a number of strategies. In the short term it can sell assets, like Real Estate, but you only sell such things once.
The business also does well to concentrate on its core customers, those that actually contribute to the bottom line, and drop attempts to attract or keep those who do not contribute, thus saving on overheads.
I see it as a simple strengthening of day to day income by the WT, guys like me who were beginning to "wake up" were a drain on the WT, I did not contribute for a good while before actually leaving. It must be even more the case now, especially with the "conscious class" within their midst taking literature and "Placing" it straight in the dumpster etc
To get rid of as many as possible of them is to improve the bottom line, which is all the WT cares about.