How To Overcome Watchtower Control in One Lesson

by metatron 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    While reading a book about the intelligence community, one quote stood out like a gem.

    A highly experienced experimenter and mind control authority said:

    "Today it is a well-understood tactic of mind manipulation that if an unknown and

    unresolvable guilt can be established among a group of people, that group can be

    controlled and subdued. As long as the target group accepts the possibility that

    the guilt might be true in some ways, it remains introverted and creatively

    unproductive. All its resources go into trying to resolve the "guilt" that does not exist

    in the first place."

    Guilt is the entire key to Watchtower control. Overcome it and you are free

    from them!

    I overcame all my "Watchtower guilt" completely and utterly with one simple

    realization. There is absolutely no reason why an Almighty Creator shouldn't talk to me

    directly. Thruout my entire Witness life, no one could ever answer my question as to

    why the Bible was needed at all. Why doesn't God JUST TELL YOU WHAT HE WANTS

    AND BE DONE WITH IT! Why translate from long dead languages? Why interpret

    ambiguous scriptures? Why should God be so inept in communicating?

    How could I be expected to harmonize the glaring contradictions between Ecclesiastes,

    with its "just stay out of trouble and live until you're dead" righteousness with the

    martyr - led zeal of the Christian Greek scriptures?

    Shortly after this, I explained to a shocked JW relative that EVERYTHING is just

    a matter of opinion unless God speaks to me directly. While he thought I'd gone nuts,

    I stood firm in my inherently logical position. I immediately rejected all Watchtower

    guilt as coming from a bunch of selfish old goons who have no special

    communication with anything Divine. I can listen to any Watchtower appeal

    without the least regard for anything they say - unless God tells me otherwise.

    ( and so far, he hasn't!).

    For the theistically inclined, this breaks the chain of Watchtower guilt.

    I am not a sociopath - if I hurt anybody, I apologize and make amends. When I

    feel sorry for others, I give to charities. I respect the Bible and the example of Jesus

    but reject all ambiguity apart from the Creator talking to me directly.

    Heck, that's only fair!

    Resolve to reject all Watchtower - induced guilt, period!

    metatron

  • lawrence
    lawrence


    Right on! Guilt is a waste of time, and yes, we wasted lots of time. Another way I put it is, "it's not my cross to bare."

  • ezekiel3
    ezekiel3

    Great thoughts!

    Definition of GUILT:

    Function: noun
    : feelings of culpability especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy : morbid self-reproach often manifest in marked preoccupation with the moral correctness of one's behavior <aggressive responses originating in inner guilt and uncertainty>

    Source: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=guilt

    But in fact are not most Christains (non-JW) also subject to this concept?

    "Adam and Eve sinned and so do you"

    Indeed "guilt" has been the shackles of religion.

  • TheListener
    TheListener

    I agree. My favorite phrase has become FOG (fear, obligation and guilt). It's totally true.

  • mrsjones5
    mrsjones5

    Totally!!

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    All resources go into trying to resolve the "guilt" that does not exist in the first place."
    Sounds like Christianity in general. First they propose the idea that you are a sinner and deserving of damnation. Second they tell you that you need Jebus to save you.

    I propose there is no sin to begin with and therefore no guilt.

  • itsallgoodnow
    itsallgoodnow

    That's pretty good. I'm always looking for short, precise things I could say to my family that they would not be able to argue with, and this is a good one...

    Shortly after this, I explained to a shocked JW relative that EVERYTHING is just a matter of opinion unless God speaks to me directly. While he thought I'd gone nuts, I stood firm in my inherently logical position. I immediately rejected all Watchtower guilt as coming from a bunch of selfish old goons who have no special communication with anything Divine. I can listen to any Watchtower appeal without the least regard for anything they say - unless God tells me otherwise. ( and so far, he hasn't!).
  • minimus
    minimus

    Um, Met, I don't think "God" will be "talking" to you any time soon BUT if he does, let us know.

  • undercover
    undercover

    Good point...

    If God is so goddamn allpowerful and he loves the world so much why don't he just communicate with us directly? Why can't he tell us what we need to do instead of letting religions make all the rules (wrongly)?

    I propose there is no god.

  • greendawn
    greendawn

    You have a point there Metatron, the Paraclete is supposed to guide the Christians in all the way of the truth after Jesus left this world, but that would put the GB out of business if they accepted this truth, so they will continue to claim a monopoly on divine direction and inspiration, the Paraclete only deals with them.

    Perhaps that's why they came up with the other sheep dogma and put them beyond the reach of the Spirit. However they also completely ignore any spirit direction in the "annointed".

    What do you think the main guilt trips are in the jws?

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