Is this the link to the other segments he mentions? https://beroeans.net/ A very informational and easy to understand discussion. I knew that there must be some underlying legal reason for the changes. Now I have some basis for this. A very good resource!
The Reason Behind Recent Watchtower Changes
by Vanderhoven7 56 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Vidiot
Beth Sarim - “A sucker is born every minute… That’s how the Borg has survived as long as it has… As long as there are malleable, impressionable, naive, & gullible minds, people will buy into this crap.”
To which I have two responses…
a) …folks like that are, IMO, too far gone to save… as long as it’s some other collective instead of the Borg (and let’s be honest, most others would be a significant improvement, anyway), and…
b) …if the people who do still buy in (after everything that’s been happening) are also still broke as shit, that’s a stopgap measure, at best.
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Beth Sarim
&,,,chalk it up to the "sunk cost" fallacy.
Or stupid.
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Vidiot
Bias also plays a much bigger role that one might think.
Griwing up, I had assumed that intelligence basically immunized one against bias…
…imagine my shock and dismay learning that even the smartest folks can be as susceptible to bias as anyone else…
…moreso even, because the self-awareness of said intelligence has a tendency to, in fact, reinforce said bias.
😵💫
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Beth Sarim
Its just amazing sometimes how the most educated & intelligent people can succumb to.,, "biases".
""Confirmation bias""
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Vidiot
LongHairGal - “…Everything they did was in response to outside threats to their ‘wealth’…”
I agree, but with a caveat.
The Org leadership doesn’t pursue wealth and “position” for its own sake… all available anecdotal evidence indicates that rather that greed-driven shysters, these guys really are, in fact, full-on True Believers (and IMO, the kind of ideology-based blunders they’ve repeatedly made over the years absolutely backs that up)…
…i.e. they’re not having cocaine-and-viagra-fueled call-girl orgies on beds of cash (…at least… I don’t think they are).
For the WTS, wealth is, first and foremost, a means to an end… an impenetrable wall to ensure its continued survival.
It has to be.
After all, if it lost its wealth, it couldn’t function…
…and if it cannot function, it - ultimately - cannot survive…
…and if it can’t survive, it can’t very well be “Gods Exclusive Earthly Organization”, now, can it?
And from their POV, that possibility is unthinkable.
Therefore, as you said, everything they do is, indeed, in response to outside threats to their wealth…
…because, in truth, outside threats to the Org’s wealth are, in fact, existential threats to the Org’s very survival.
And that simply cannot be permitted.
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Beth Sarim
Bang on!!
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Beth Sarim
A multi-billion $$ organizations interests and survival are the motives.
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Vidiot
This is just my opinion, but…
…I suspect the revelation (sorry, couldn’t resist 😏) that the sustainability of said organization’s wealth is almost completely dependent on its charity-status/tax-exemption may well be the most significant piece of intel we’ve ever discovered.
I could be wrong.
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Beth Sarim
Ah ha!!
There we have it. Whenever the Borgs tax free status even faces a whiff of a threat,, you see what they're made of.
They do all these backflips trying to mitigate local governments.
The tax free status is the lifeblood of the organization. If it goes away,,,the Borg goes away.
You see all these changes when there is even a threat of a threat or a slight whiff of one which could challenge the Borg.