BARNABY THE DOG.
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Hi Nomex, your description of watchtower is very apt - as is the reaction of those seeing watchtower for what they are and throwing away their faith as if it were nothing. The one saving grace I treasure for myself, is that my faith was never based on watchtower, but upon creation. If it had been watchtower, then I would have lost everything. Creation is a failsafe for people like me that do not “see” prophesy and have to have it explained to them and creation is a rock that is very safe to build upon and withstands all inquiry. I refer to the science of creation rather than the evangelical song and dance that neither enquires into it or learns it’s fabulous intricacies of design.This is a profound statement and nothing could be more true. It's also why they have become a mirror image to the world especially the left. When you can bark at someone that a man is a woman, and say things like, "IT'S MAM", by a hulking 6'6" MAN, yet we are told he's a woman, and he's gonna beat you to death if you believe your lying eyes....then we begin to truly understand what's going on.
It also underscore a very poignant fact. And that fact is, we answer individually to Jehovah, so this idea that Jehovah would use an organization to tell us what the Bible means, rather than truly studying the Bible and finding out for ourselves, goes directly in conflict with Jehovah's purpose that we are all "free moral agents." It's also one of the fundamental problems with Disfellowshipping. If a person is forced to "return to Watchtower, oh wait I mean Jehovah", because of shunning, then what has happened to their free will?
It also illustrates why there really are so many problems within the org...if people really believe that what is required of them is, meeting attendance and field service to gain life, then their really is no depth to a person, and they can excuse all kinds of really bad and horrible behavior, and hide it behind things like "meeting attendance and field service", while at the same time, being a really horrible person.
One thing I have come to realize, is how little most JW's actually know the Bible, if the ExJW community is any kind of reflection, and I think it is. When these people find out about WT lies, they completely lose any and all faith and most of them become atheist. Which to me is the most profound indictment of WT and the GB there is, that when most people find out that WT has lied to them, they leave "the truth" and lose all belief in a creator.
How does that make Jehovah feel? And that I think is the real reason the GB and WT is so worried about so-called apostates, not because of the lies, but because of the truth it reveals, and they the GB cannot stand up to the scrutiny. Not that long ago I had two family members echo the following statement, "when they get on the internet, it's over." Meaning, any time someone reads on the internet about WT the internet destroys the JW's faith...and that is exactly what WT and the GB want you to believe, and sadly it is true for all too many people.
But on the other hand, what does it say, when you can read all the "apostate driven lies" on the internet, and you don't lose your faith in God, and the Bible, but rather your faith in an org run by imperfect, but very power hungry men! Again, another very damning indictment not of the so-called apostate, but of WT and their leaders.
Let's not forget too, what would happen to Jesus, if he returned to the earth in human form again, and started exposing the GB the same way he did the Pharisees!! Would Jesus for example be OK, calling the WT lawyers rather than reporting a crime like child abuse to the authorities that Roman's 13 commands them to do.
But no Roman's 13 is for you unvaccinated scum, not for things like child rape, you uneducated, unsophisticated cur! Who do you think you are, you dog, to think you can think for yourself? Do what WT, (and the UN, WHO, CFR, WEF, and all the other 3 letter agencies, WT's masters), tell you to do and think what they tell you to think!
Looking back , what I see about watchtowers rightful place is its facsimile of the truth. It’s prophesied. Clearly, it had to have, maybe given rather than acquired for itself, an element of truth and which it has to be said, it did have and still does for those sleeping. Had it not, then the deceit would have no value. I look upon it as a commercial form of Judas. He went through the motions and was seen as an apostle - he did play the part - and I assume was not knowingly employed to it, but chose it, and which pretty well mirrors the course of watchtower. As always, those of us who have survived, did not choose watchtower, but the message they carried. All of us here, share a similar basis of belief - we chose the Word within watchtower and that is why we were alert to the emergent incongruities in the Word and survived being torn apart from our association with the lie and stayed faithful to the Word. I’m sure there are many more yet to come out her, as there must be through the world and who have yet to see the light from their own personal “reflections” of truth that the worldly priests have set up for them in imitation of the Word.