Farkel Ain't Right, Ma

Stop Sugarcoating Your Message For a Change, Dubbies

doug2051@gmail.com (Farkel) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:11:00 +0000

I thought I would start off my blog by musing about what it would be like if dubs actually told the truth for a change. In field service they eventually get around to telling the truth, but not before varnishing their real message with lots of feel-good sugar coating. Only after the prospect is assumed to be hooked on the sugar coating is the bomb dropped and the prospect gets to hear the REST of the story.

Jehovah's Witness Field Service Presentations That Tell the Truth

doug2051@gmail.com (Farkel) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:11:54 +0000

#1, The "Cut-to-the-Chase" Version :-

dub: Good morning. It's a beautiful day isn't it?

householder: Yes it is. What do you want?

dub: I'm here to tell you about your future. Would you like to know that future?

Service Meetings - What if They Told the Truth?

doug2051@gmail.com (Farkel) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:26:47 +0000

The Local Needs Talk :-

"Good evening, Brothers. As you all know, our regional sales manager will be making his semi-annual visit to us in just a week. We're all worried about that, I know. Word has it that our Headquarters office is downsizing and will probably be outsourcing most, if not all printing and binding operations. Rumor has it they might be sending the work to India and Malaysia. They discussed outsourcing to China, but couldn't talk the Communists into a contract. Besides that, China doesn't recognize our Copyright Laws and Headquarters has spent considerable amounts of money protecting its intellectual property and trademarks.

Some Really Dumb Watchtower Words - Part 1

doug2051@gmail.com (Farkel) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:43:40 +0000

The WTS just loves to make up words and phrases. This, of course, is perfectly understandable since they make up everything else, too. To the outside (read "real") world these words seem curious and frankly, stupid. When they don't make up words, Dubs use "un-words", such as "happifying." I just can't imagine the all-knowing Creator of the Universe "inspiring" his only "chosen" earthly spokesmen to use really, really dumb words in his "mouthpiece" journal, the Watchtower magazine.

Your Beatin' Heart Will Tell on You

dogzoid@hotmail.com (Farkel) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:18:25 +0000

Hearts would be pretty cool and versatile things if we could believe what is said about them is real.

You can look deep inside them for answers.

They can be bored: "he just doesn't have his heart in it."

They can be made of gold, made of stone, be hard, be soft, be warm, be happy, be sad, be in the right place, be in the wrong place, throb, pound, can be good, be bad, be brave, be chicken, can soar, be stopped, wander, roam, cheat, be honest, be broken, melted, mended, and opened up.

Hearts are implanted deep in our bodies and thus are very personal. No one can judge them. Unless you are the Watchtower Printing Corporation, that is. They say they don't judge people's hearts, but they lie. They do it all the time. If someone doesn't go along with the Watchtower Corporation's huge lists of rules and regulations, they are judged as "not having the right heart condition."

The Watchtower Society - God's Corporation?

dogzoid@hotmail.com (Farkel) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:05:57 +0000

I think it is incorrect to call the Watchtower Society merely a religious organization. It would be similar to calling Bernard Madoff an "investor." In fact, the Watchtower Society has many more things in common with a typically large corporation than it has with a typically large religion.

In the early days Jehovah's Witness Congregations were called "Companies", which was probably a military connotation from Rutherford, but nontheless is still fitting. Large Militaries have much more in common with corporations than they do with any other type of organization.

Remember, Rutherford called RELIGION a "snare and a racket." He wisely didn't call his CORPORATION that!