Why Doesn't The WT. Get Embarrassed When They Talk About The Pharisees?

by minimus 22 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  One thing that I could never figure out was how the Society could rail against the scribes and Pharisees and not blink an eye. What's up with that?
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  minimus

  During all the times we studied the "Greatest Man'' book, I became more convinced that the the Watchtower Society has "big ones" if they can say all the things that Jesus hated about the Pharisees and never make an application to themselves.
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  Analysis

  They even have an Oral Law!
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  Pistoff

  because they trust that they really are the FDS for one; they believe their own press.

  And it follows that if you are God's voice/channel, you are not the pharisees.

  Neat loop, huh?
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  unique1

  Because they are better than everyone else, you know.

  Wait didn't the Scribes and Pharisees think they were better than everyone else?

  They are psycho's that is the only reason. They just don't get it.
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  rocketman

  Actually, it's almsot amazing how these guys can write stuff that could be applied to them, and yet, of course, the average jw never even considers it.
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  AMNESIAN

  Minimus:

  During all the times we studied the "Greatest Man'' book, I became more convinced that the the Watchtower Society has "big ones" if they can say all the things that Jesus hated about the Pharisees and never make an application to themselves.

  The GM book was always especially galling to me. I finally became thoroughly convinced that we were being mocked for our trusting gullibility. I came to believe the leadership smugly amuses itself by testing just how outrageously its control of and contempt for the flock can be brandished all the while getting us/them to willingly parrot representations about the organization and life as JWs that we were uncomfortably conscious were not in sync with reality.

  Talk about cognitive dissonance.

  I was similarly incredulous whenever WT articles condemned, point by point, "false" prophets, while arguing in that dishonest way they do why JWs don't fit the category! I could never think of any group that fit better.

  AMNESIAN
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  minimus

  I wonder if the GB get a chuckle everytime they hear answers at the bookstudy and Watchtower study.
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  Room 215

  Why not? because their arrogance is unboundless and -- here's a new word -- UNEMBARASSABLE!
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  AMNESIAN

  Why not? because their arrogance is unboundless and -- here's a new word -- UNEMBARASSABLE!

  Make that two new words .

  AMNESIAN