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 ====== Inner Workings ====== ====== Inner Workings ======
 +++++ Quick Profile |
 ^ Head of Faith ^ Text ^ Meaning          ^ ^ Head of Faith ^ Text ^ Meaning          ^
 |Spiritual|The physical world and the spiritual world are not alike. We must ensure the spiritual world has it's own leader, to guide us and to protect our faith from being profaned by physical desires.|The head of faith is a medium to the spiritual. Their word is what god told them, so they have near-executive control over the religion. This is only constrained by how much the religion allows its believers to stray from official doctrine.| |Spiritual|The physical world and the spiritual world are not alike. We must ensure the spiritual world has it's own leader, to guide us and to protect our faith from being profaned by physical desires.|The head of faith is a medium to the spiritual. Their word is what god told them, so they have near-executive control over the religion. This is only constrained by how much the religion allows its believers to stray from official doctrine.|
 +**The Watchtower**, some white guys in a building in Warwick, NY State
  
 ^ Category ^ Name ^ Text          ^ ^ Category ^ Name ^ Text          ^
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 |Divorce|Must be Approved|While the bonds of marriage should not be taken lightly, extenuating circumstances can sometimes make divorce a necessity.((In religions with a gender preference, this is often used to make divorce harder or impossible for the party of the not-preferred gender.))| |Divorce|Must be Approved|While the bonds of marriage should not be taken lightly, extenuating circumstances can sometimes make divorce a necessity.((In religions with a gender preference, this is often used to make divorce harder or impossible for the party of the not-preferred gender.))|
 |Bastardry|No Legitimization|The bonds of marriage are sacrosanct, and children born outside of wedlock will always be illegitimate.| |Bastardry|No Legitimization|The bonds of marriage are sacrosanct, and children born outside of wedlock will always be illegitimate.|
-|Funerary Tradition|The soul has begun its long journey to [afterlife name] and we will never see them again in the living world. It is imperative that all who knew the dead gather and offer their grief in a public show of bewailment. This both honors the dead and cleanses our souls of the grief felt by their departure.|+|Funerary Tradition|Bewailing Funeral|The soul has begun its long journey to [afterlife name] and we will never see them again in the living world. It is imperative that all who knew the dead gather and offer their grief in a public show of bewailment. This both honors the dead and cleanses our souls of the grief felt by their departure.|
  
 ^ Crime ^ Doctrine ^ Text          ^ ^ Crime ^ Doctrine ^ Text          ^
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 |Unrelenting Faith|Our convictions are strong, and we will gladly fight and die for our faith. No matter how badly the odds are stacked against us, we shall not surrender.| |Unrelenting Faith|Our convictions are strong, and we will gladly fight and die for our faith. No matter how badly the odds are stacked against us, we shall not surrender.|
 |Dharmic Pacifism|We are all part of the cosmic order. Violence against anything is violence against everything, oneself included.| |Dharmic Pacifism|We are all part of the cosmic order. Violence against anything is violence against everything, oneself included.|
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 Witnesses will, as much as possible, withhold from each other whatever they could use to get out of there. One of the strongest weapons //here// is education, as school degrees are an extremely strong starting position to work with (financial independence!). Obviously this will vary on the individual, but in general JW are instructed to maximize their time spent focusing on "spiritual stuff". Children are not sent to school, if possible, and in countries where there are compulsory school laws they will find whatever is the least degree of education that still, from a legal perspective, qualifies as "school". In the US of A, for example, this could mean virtual school courses by JW for JW, teaching anything but definitely NOT propaganda and indoctrination. If you're lucky and don't get homeschooled then you may be sent to public schools ("the dark, pesky caves of Satan himself!") but your education efforts will be pro-actively sabotaged by your parents - they may be intentionally lax about actually sending/getting their children to school, may force them to do spiritual stuff all day to stop them from doing homework or learning for tests, cut them off from the internet or learning resources for whatever excuse they can come up with and much, much more - all the way up to the point where, for the child, learning becomes utterly unsustainable. They may be "going to school", but are intentionally set up for failure by sabotaging whatever their parents can to prevent actual results((Not that school itself, as is, is already often overwhelming enough for many people.)). There again, making friends at a public school is strictly frowned upon and will get you shunned by fellow witnesses if discovered. Witnesses will, as much as possible, withhold from each other whatever they could use to get out of there. One of the strongest weapons //here// is education, as school degrees are an extremely strong starting position to work with (financial independence!). Obviously this will vary on the individual, but in general JW are instructed to maximize their time spent focusing on "spiritual stuff". Children are not sent to school, if possible, and in countries where there are compulsory school laws they will find whatever is the least degree of education that still, from a legal perspective, qualifies as "school". In the US of A, for example, this could mean virtual school courses by JW for JW, teaching anything but definitely NOT propaganda and indoctrination. If you're lucky and don't get homeschooled then you may be sent to public schools ("the dark, pesky caves of Satan himself!") but your education efforts will be pro-actively sabotaged by your parents - they may be intentionally lax about actually sending/getting their children to school, may force them to do spiritual stuff all day to stop them from doing homework or learning for tests, cut them off from the internet or learning resources for whatever excuse they can come up with and much, much more - all the way up to the point where, for the child, learning becomes utterly unsustainable. They may be "going to school", but are intentionally set up for failure by sabotaging whatever their parents can to prevent actual results((Not that school itself, as is, is already often overwhelming enough for many people.)). There again, making friends at a public school is strictly frowned upon and will get you shunned by fellow witnesses if discovered.
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