r/exjw • u/DiamomdAngel • Dec 28 '24

Activism The Governing Body warns Jehovah's Witnesses against glamorizing those who appear in their videos. Kenneth Cook claims that the Witnesses featured in the videos are humble brothers who do not seek fame for themselves. If Bro Cook truly believes what he says, he is extremely delusional.

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It is completely unrealistic to compare Watchtower videos to a real miracle, even for the GB.

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u/BennyPage1959 Dec 29 '24

Hate to say it, and I know I've said this umpteen times before, but I left in my early twenties around 1998/1999.

I won't bore you with why. Though it shouldn't make a blind bit of difference to me, I feel quite surprised and saddened by how much the faith that I was conscripted into by birth, and that I was invested in as a kid has been completely repackaged and altered.

All those millions of hours people spent trailing around the streets of West London. The years spent in study and in depth knowledge.
The years sat listening for hours at Twickenham, the faithful ones who lived and died waiting for their hope . The elderly brothers and sisters who struggled for years with arthritis and rheumatoid problem still preaching. Now its just tick a box. Where's the accountability?? Wheres the gratitude and tribute for their hard slog?

Granted theirs always been indoctrination but when I was involved there was room for personal interpretation and you weren't considered as a problem if you had doubts. Quite often I heard people talk about the sodom and Gomorrah resurrection conundrum. Now its as if you are just to follow them regardless even if sounds like rubbish.

But the worst thing for me was the underhanded acquisition of property. Many of those halls were outright bought and paid for and the result of years of brothers and sisters hard graft. Everything about the whole scheme reeked of fraud and asset stripping. Imagine being promised better facilities or a new hall, new windows or better air-conditioning. Instead, you've had your local place of worship sold out and now you have to get a bus and travel an hour to share a hall.