Imaginary headline: Bethelite Goes Bezerk and Guns Down 4 GBs!!!

by D wiltshire 45 Replies latest jw friends

  • pr_capone
    pr_capone

    The people complaining about the content of the original post remind me of the people (Tipper Gore and such) who say that music will make people do bad things. I am sure that if someone were to do this, their defence would not be that they read about it on this forum and it made them do it.

    Its a concievable scenario... it could actually happen. *shrugs* I for one wont be the one pulling the trigger, and I really dont think that the original poster (sorry.. forgot who you are) had no intention of trying to provoke or incite someone to take this sort of action.

    Kansas District Overbeer

  • Gopher
    Gopher

    In certain situations, there have been bloody coups where leaders who took advantage of their people, who showed no mercy, who lived off the fat of the land, and who tried to insulate themselves from the commoners have met a tragic death.

    The Watchtower publications have referred to their organization as a modern day "nation". I remember they teach that their nation of about 6 million is more numerous than "x" number of political nations in the world.

    So for someone to vent their anger at the WT leaders would be in line with coup-d'etats that happen to self-willed, self-interested leaders of the secular world.

    It isn't the right or balanced thing to do, and it would certainly draw loyal JW's together further into a self-righteous persecution complex since, in their view, their organization can do no wrong and such an attack would be (again, in their view) totally unprovoked.

    While not totally unprovoked, such an attack on men would be unjustified and would not succeed in reforming or limiting the ill effects that Watchtower teachings visit upon their followers.

  • gitasatsangha
    gitasatsangha

    but since Freddy Franz kicked the bucket there really is no major target for someone to attack in the WTS anyway, just a bunch of aging evil men who once met regularly in commitees.

  • clash_city_rockers
    clash_city_rockers

    D-Wilt makes an awsome point here. Just think about it.... You have a J-Dub life long Bethelite slave who is in his 60's. He knows the real story about the Organization....

    Because of the overwhelming pressures in his conscience he try's to blow the wistle on the whole WT deal.... The WT responds by DF the poor old guy, thus ripping him off of any hard earn pention this guy will recieve... He will be poor and homeless in the latter half of his golden days..... But wait....a thought has entered his mind.....and evil thought.... he will go to his gun safe and pull out his Beretta 92 (do dubs really own guns?) go to Beathel and smoke some of the Bethelites to hell...and maybe take a few GB down too...if he survives he will now have a roof over his head and food on the table for the rest of his life... and have a sence of revenge... In State Prision that is.

    just a thought,

    jr

  • Simon
    Simon

    There has already been something happen along these lines ...

    Who can remember the bomb planted in an Australian congregation quite a few years ago (20+ ?). I believe there was an outcry at the time and then it came out what they had done to some guys family.

    I am surprised that more people don't snap and do extreme things given some of the extreme provocation.

    I've edited the topic title to be a bit less sensationalist and more accurate.

  • pr_capone
    pr_capone

    I have heard stories of bombs and such being left at the kingdumb hall. One was that a man came in claiming that he was a brother who was on vacation and just stopped by to catch the meeting. He left halfways through the meeting but left his briefcase behind.

    One of the attendants noticed this sometime after the person left and when he opened it, it was a bomb with a timer that was down to just a few minutes. He proceeded to take it outside and threw it in a nearby lake. Jehoober was truly with that congregation that day.

    Another that was related to me was one where the speaker got on stage and felt the floorboards underneath his feel were a bit loose. He excused himself and bent down and picked up the loose floorboard and there was a bomb there. It was a dud though apparently. Once again Jehoober saved the day.

    Kansas District Overbeer

  • pr_capone
    pr_capone

    BTW, these were told to me by the MS (now elder) who studied with me as a kid in Puerto Rico.

    Kansas District Overbeer

  • Abaddon
    Abaddon

    I'm rather stunbned at peoples' willingness to censor a post that doesn't violate the posting guidelines.

    We talk about subjects here varying from penis size through American foreign policy all the way to evolution vs. creation and the existence of god. We have people expressing misogynistic or bigoted opinions justified by some pretext of text.

    I am sure many people get heartily bored with some topics, and some are offended by them; they are free to say that, or just not to read them.

    Very rarely does anyone suggest censorship, and even then it's normally due to posting guidelines being violated. If anyone thinks Dwiltshire violated posting guidelines, show us where.

    If not, then rather than trying to censor someone, it might be wise to wonder why you have such a reaction to discussing such a possibility. Is it just the GB being killed that makes people react this way?

    Would you react the same way if someone had posted a thread with the title 'Imaginary headline: Member of Congregation Kills Elder Who Abused Their Child?'

    Is a GB member who supports the maintenance of current policy regarding blood products, not for any real belief in the bOrg's interpretation of scripture, but out of a recognition of the doctrinal credibility that would be lost as a result of amending this stance (which results in deaths), more or less morally disgusting that a child molester?

    Whether you feel comfortable with this topic or not, it's within the bounds of possibility that a Bethelite could 'go postal', it doesn't violate the posting guidelines, and I find censorship more disturbing than the subject people are trying to censor. People are free to feel that way, as am I to feel the way I feel.

  • Stephanus
    Stephanus

    I'm rather stunned that you posted the above 5 times, Abaddon! But I agree with it...

  • metatron
    metatron

    The "Boss" is thin and hard to hit!

    Seriously, I was shocked at a casual remark on freeminds.org under the

    ex-Bethelite page, in which a "Mike Smith" said he murdered two fellow

    missionaries in Samoa and served 14 years in prison.

    Is this true?

    metatron

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