by punkofnice 42 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Hi punkofnice.
Good OP that contains excellent questions.
My own hunch is that some GB members are in it for power (I believe money is secondary, but all their bills are paid plus green handshakes = no money troubles and a comfy life) and some are completely delusional and believe the crap that they spew forth 100%.
I believe that every governing body is a combination of the two.
The poor bastards of the rank and file ...
They may not make a personal paycheck, but they are no doubt lavished with gifts, large sums of cash, fine dining, and never have to lift a finger.
I mean, if a circuit overseer rakes in a decent amount of cash via green handshakes, what do people hand the GB members?
They never have to pay a single penny for anything in their lives. They're always with at least one sycophant who will step on their grandmother to say "no brother, let me buy that for you."
Edit: So I'd say money is definitely a factor. Plus worship and adoration. Pretty awesome gig. All you have to do is become a sociopath.
I don't think they do it for money or power.
I think they do what they do because they truly believe that CONTROL IS LOVE.
I've said this before, but pretty much all of the "WTF-were-they-thinking" decisions they've made over the years are exactly the kind of doofy-ass calls that full-on True Believers would make.
Conversely, however, they must be aware of the Gibralter-sized mound of errors, flaws, and full-on gibbering weirdness that we're so well informed of.
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Therefore, the only way to reconcile the two is to conclude that they know it's wrong, but believe it's "true" at the same time, and what's more, without suffering the overwhelming degree of cognitive dissonance that would give regular folks a complete nervous f**king breakdown if/when faced with it.
It's called "compartmentalization"; right-wing politicians are particularly good at it.
I suspect sociopathy comes into play, too.
i firmly believe the GB members really think they are the faithful and discrete slave. Gods sole channel of communication with mankind.
but i also firmly believe there is no god--so those guys are just self-deluded twats running a micro religion that is the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Since, as Punk admits, we have no evidence to the contrary, I will give them the benefit of any doubt and say that I see them as honest, but deluded individuals.
The more time that you spend within a closed environment , the harder it is to see outside it
John Aquila - "I would say to myself, 'This can't be right, but we have the truth'"
As if "The Truth" was something you could pick up and take with you...
