Keep on the watch

Below you will find the daily text from Friday, December 23, 2016. I came to know of this entry through a text I received from my mother that read "Read the text for December 23". This text was received years after I let her know that the organization she was aligned with was immoral and that I'd never return to it. With the burial of a donkey, he will be buried. Jeremiah 22:19 We can find bible accounts of some who received a rich spiritual heritage but failed to appreciate it. That was true in the family of one prophet, Samuel, who served Jehovah from a young age and had a fine record with God. Samuel set an example that his sons, Joel and Abijah, would have done well to imitate. However, they did not appreciate this, and they turned out to be bad. The bible record tells us that unlike their father, they "perverted justice" It was similar with King Josiah's sons. Josiah set a superb example in worshipping Jehovah. Ye, when three of his sons and ...

In the old cowboy movies the villain always wore a black hat; the hero white. This projected the simplicity of morality and the choices of whom to follow. The idea is a favorite of the watchtower. Yes, you're either a good friend or a murderer. Those are the stakes of human interactions according to the watchtower and you're not equipped to figure this out on your own. Notice how they attack both the intellect and intuition of "Sarah." They paint her as a person completely unable to comprehend basic language. That she didn't even know what was meant by "values."  They go on to denigrate her instincts by making the case that how she feels about this new friend is the only criteria she may be using to determine the make up of their character.  Besides being insulting, this framing of their adherents is thought impregnation in action. This is the watchtower telling the rank & file members that they are intellectually incapable of deciding whether ...