I have a Question for the Watchtower Organization

[Greybeard]

When first made aware of this quote I didn’t really believe it. I didn’t want to believe it! If it wasn’t brought to my attention by a good friend, I wouldn’t even have bothered to look it up in the Watchtower Library. Because I know this person to be a serious Christian I did look it up, still not believing this quote could ever have been printed in a serious religious journal. Guess what, the quote below was copied right out of the Watchtower Library. Do you think this is the kind of thing that an organization directed by Jehovah’s Holy Spirit would print? Hardly! While they are not condoning in print the practice they mentioned, after such a statement, most Christians likely would feel compelled to launch into a condemnation of such a practice! To call it what it is, CHILD ABUSE! No, not the spirit led organization of God. They just take the tone that it’s probably not a good idea because it could cause your children to be masturbators in the future. This is a sick example of the Watchtower going places that they NEVER should go in the pages of their magazine. Is this organization spirit directed, you decide. I have…..

*** w73 9/15 p. 568 Breaking Free of Self-Abuse—Why? How? ***

“Did you know, for example, that mothers and fathers who stroke the genitals of their fretful babies to keep them quiet are unwittingly encouraging them to become masturbators later on? Boys and girls may start to play with their private parts during puberty and, not receiving any counsel against this, the first thing they know they are “hooked” on the habit.”

I have a question for the Watchtower organization. I apologize to all others before I even ask it. Who masturbates their babies to keep them quiet? I mean really, what kind of sick, twisted individual would even conceive of such a thing, print it in the pages of your journal in such a matter of fact tone and then let the opportunity go by without condemning the practice? Watchtower Society, I strongly suggest that if you have friends that practice such criminal behavior, you get some new ones and turn the old ones into the authorities. Oh yeah, I forgot that you have a history of not turning self confessed child molesters into the police, citing clergy privilege. That you’ve paid out millions of dollars in settlements to child abuse victims for the way you’ve handled these kinds of cases. Then as a condition of settlement, you had the victims agree to non-disclosure so they wouldn’t spread the word among the flock.

Brother’s and sister’s, wake up!

Written by Dennis,
Taken from here: http://www.jwstruggle.com/2011/09/i-...-organization/

If you can please copy this and e-mail to all your friends or family who are JW's.

[Bandit]

After reading this carefully, I have to agree with Greybeard. The quote he gives indicates a real absence of moral understanding and spiritual insight. I hope we dont' have to discuss this topic in any more detail than it has already. Thank you, Greybeard, for sharing this alarming report.

[guestman]

The article in the September 15, 1973 Watchtower was both direct and fruitful, for both young men and women, though raised to know Jehovah, have masturbated. The changing of their bodies from into an adult often creates a strong desire sexually. And in the article, it was not pointing towards Jehovah's Witnesses as stroking the genitals of their "fretful babies", but applied to any and everyone. The key is to get the "sense of it" (Greek sy·ni´e·mi, meaning "to mentally put the pieces together", used by Jesus 6 times at Matthew 13) the dangers of masturbation, that can cause a person to become sexually addicted to it.

As this system of things becomes more and more sexually degraded, it is not surprising that the Scriptural view of masturbation is cast aside, that a person should "deaden, therefore, your body members that are upon the earth as respects....sexual appetite."(Col 3:5) No longer is masturbation seen as degrading, but "going all the way" is now common, with even girls approaching boys for sex. Only those who are morally clean will have Jehovah's approval.

Any young person, if they admit it, have had perhaps bouts with intense sexual desire and therefore a craving to masturbate to relieve this "pressure". To avoid such, it is necessary to keep our minds upon "whatever things are of serious concern, whatever things are righteous, whatever things are chaste, whatever things are lovable, whatever things are well spoken of, whatever virtue there is and whatever praiseworthy thing there is, continue considering these things."(Phil 4:8)

[Reynolds357]

When first made aware of this quote I didn’t really believe it. I didn’t want to believe it! If it wasn’t brought to my attention by a good friend, I wouldn’t even have bothered to look it up in the Watchtower Library. Because I know this person to be a serious Christian I did look it up, still not believing this quote could ever have been printed in a serious religious journal. Guess what, the quote below was copied right out of the Watchtower Library. Do you think this is the kind of thing that an organization directed by Jehovah’s Holy Spirit would print? Hardly! While they are not condoning in print the practice they mentioned, after such a statement, most Christians likely would feel compelled to launch into a condemnation of such a practice! To call it what it is, CHILD ABUSE! No, not the spirit led organization of God. They just take the tone that it’s probably not a good idea because it could cause your children to be masturbators in the future. This is a sick example of the Watchtower going places that they NEVER should go in the pages of their magazine. Is this organization spirit directed, you decide. I have…..

*** w73 9/15 p. 568 Breaking Free of Self-Abuse—Why? How? ***

“Did you know, for example, that mothers and fathers who stroke the genitals of their fretful babies to keep them quiet are unwittingly encouraging them to become masturbators later on? Boys and girls may start to play with their private parts during puberty and, not receiving any counsel against this, the first thing they know they are “hooked” on the habit.”

I have a question for the Watchtower organization. I apologize to all others before I even ask it. Who masturbates their babies to keep them quiet? I mean really, what kind of sick, twisted individual would even conceive of such a thing, print it in the pages of your journal in such a matter of fact tone and then let the opportunity go by without condemning the practice? Watchtower Society, I strongly suggest that if you have friends that practice such criminal behavior, you get some new ones and turn the old ones into the authorities. Oh yeah, I forgot that you have a history of not turning self confessed child molesters into the police, citing clergy privilege. That you’ve paid out millions of dollars in settlements to child abuse victims for the way you’ve handled these kinds of cases. Then as a condition of settlement, you had the victims agree to non-disclosure so they wouldn’t spread the word among the flock.

Brother’s and sister’s, wake up!

Written by Dennis,
Taken from here: http://www.jwstruggle.com/2011/09/i-...-organization/

If you can please copy this and e-mail to all your friends or family who are JW's.

Sounds like a bunch of Child Molesters are in the J.W. cult.

[Sojourner55]

I never heard of this before. While the quote doesn't advocate the practice, it unquestionably presupposes--with a rather casual attitude, that such a practice exists. What is truly disturbing is that the focus of the statement is on the possibility of promoting masturbation by the child in later years, rather than condemning such an unnatural act of the parents.