by yalbmert99 10 Replies latest watchtower scandals
https://www.cesnur.org/2022/quebec-final-program.htm
Anyone remember what I said about the WTS increasingly doing everything it can to survive...
...(because "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization" simply cannot be permitted to not survive; otherwise it wouldn't be "God's Exclusive Earthly Organization", would it?)...
...and that real problems could and would arise when said survival measures - ultimately - can't help but undermine that very organizational claim?
I would count soliciting assistance from a group known specifically for its association with explicitly harmful (not to mention "false") religions as one such measure.
Just how anxious/desperate is the WT leadership starting to feel?
Exactly, the WT is desperate and does anything to improve its bad reputation all around the world.
Avoid? Why?
The chairman of Cesnur is also "director of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula".
Over the years close rworki relation with Watchtower.
G.
yalbmert99 - “…the WT is desperate and does anything to improve its bad reputation all around the world.”
Close.
In truth, I highly doubt they give a shit about their “reputation” at this point.
It’s all about shoring up their tenuous authority in the eyes of the rank-and-file.
Just how anxious/desperate is the WT leadership starting to feel?
I think the writing is on the wall.
We can only hope .
Vienne: they are cult apologists, they attack anti-cult activists and they say cults aren't doing anything wrong
Thanks GORB
Vidiot: ya indeed
smiddy3: i hope they are (Watchtower) going to fall someday...
A scholars hobby does not negate his scholarship. Even we reject the content of the presentations, I do not think one should avoid this conference or the conference report if one is published. I will read the report if published.
Eileen Barker and George D. Chryssides are impressive scholars, especially is that true of Eileen. Even if one questions their conclusions, they are well worth listening to.
Nothing wrong with 'Apologia' if it's honest and in good faith.
Of course 'Dracula boy' tends to have a perspective based on who is funding him.
And the JW representatives at the conference will probably speak out of both sides of their mouths.
Info-cult is not a pro-cult movement though. I expect they will keep the actual cultists in line. The Q&A sessions might be interesting, if they have any.
But hang on, I thought JWs didn't engage in 'interfaith' activities which surely this is?
