IS IT TOO MUCH TO EXPECT?

by Terry 6 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Terry

  Is it too much to expect from the Governing Body that they train their members

  to interpret, AND to criticize; to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood,

  to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

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  A sermon at a Kingdom Hall is well described as the process whereby the outline of the speaker becomes the notes of the listener without passing

  through the mind of either of them. Is it too much to expect either to personally discern what is being said? Without discernment the individual allows anything into the mind without making a personal examination or judgment.

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  Is it too much to expect for JW's to get out of the habit of automatically AGREEING with what they are told by the GB or automatically

  DISagreeing with information from every other source? “To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”

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  Is it too much to expect JW's to understand that there are genuine mysteries in the world which mark the limits of knowing and thinking--and--that

  the Watchtower is severely limited by its ignorance and self-deception in being able to reduce everything to a black and white simplicity?

  “ Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. ”

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  Is it too much to expect JW's to know it is much easier to please a stupid person by giving them easier answers?

  "Do as you are told" is not the meaning of life.

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  Intellectual amateurs cannot lead mankind into paradise by indoctrinating mindless parrots with fantasy passed off as TRUTH.
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  new hope and happiness

  To the rank and file i think they would answer your post with the answer

  " No"

  Because they do not see the G.B as we do.

  They would say yes" intellectual ameturs, can lead mankind in to paradise by indoctinating mindless parots......"

  And i who was once mindless parot, i would disagree.

  But to be perfectly honest i still try to see my thinking as a mindless parot.
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  Pistoff

  Colleges and universities, good teachers, even mediocre teachers, see their jobs as teaching people to think and use their respective gifts and intellect to approach a subject and offer to the existing body of knowledge, or solve a problem.

  The GB sees their job as herding all into the new system; they do NOT want people to think for themselves, or to offer solutions to problems.

  There are no huge problems among the witnesses, right? It is a spiritual paradise, they are a happy people, Jehovah is guiding them.

  So Yes, it is too much to expect; it isn't even on their radar to engage the though process of the person in the cheap seat.
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  The Searcher

  (Hebrews 5:14) "But solid food belongs to mature people, to those who through use have their powers of discernment trained to distinguish both right and wrong."

  Every Witness is clearly instructed by JW.ORG to disregard that scripture, and not be an "independent thinker".
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  Finkelstein

  Religions have always feed itself upon ignorance and human emotions to empower themselves and to facilitate an illusion

  of having a connection to the higher spiritual source.

  From that established premise why instill or promote critical thinking, which could fracture that formulated illusion ?

  Intellectualism breaks down emotive theory and belief.
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  Apognophos

  From a religion that tells its members to be sheep? I would say that it's not too much to expect, but that one has the wholly wrong set of expectations in the first place. People who do well in the org. are people who want to be led, and this includes elders, who are led by the people in the tiers above them.
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  Finkelstein

  JWS are indoctrinated to think they are the most righteously pure people on earth intensionally by the leadership of the WTS.

  This appealing persona is by the WTS. own proclamation is going to get people to survive judgment day ( Armageddon)

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  Also this imposing life or death situation is what holds people to the JW faith, this imposition of fear is the catalyst to shape people as obeying and loyal

  subjects toward the leaders of the WTS.

  Those very leaders have presented a stage where they themselves are the intellectual chosen ones who have been chosen exclusively by god

  on how mankind can appease god toward not to be killed by him or his ruling son.

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  What the WTS. wants is mentally controlled obedient slaves to exploit and manipulate to their own specific direction and supporting needs,

  from there the WTS. extrapolates money and free labor from these individuals and the business with the entailing power and control is further sustained.