Sigmund Freud and Rutherford??

bluebell

Someone suggested to me that Rutherford (i think, they just said one of the founders) went to a talk by Freud and incorporated hypnotism into the meetings. They said that w/t study set up made you go tick tock between reader and conductor. I thought it was funny. I couldnt find anything about it other than the website of the person who was suggesting it was quoting from which is on www.energeticsolutions.com.au

As the guy also suggests you can cure diabetes and HIV etc by positive thinking I thought he's a bit of a nut...

Anyone else heard of the suggestion.

jwfacts

The site you refer to and his article about JWs is full of incorrect information. However I would not be surprised if Rutherford was somehow influenced by Freud.

Everyone goes into trances constantly throughout the day, a classic example is whilst watching tv or reading. A person enters a relaxed state of mind and apparantly the subconscious becomes more susceptible to absorbing information without evaluating its merits. People certainly go into trances at meetings, whether it be the left right eye movements, or the fact that they bore people into a trance.

darth frosty

I know a lot of what that guy says sounds like a crackpot but for some reason the idea that the WT is conducted in a group hypnotic manner makes sense to me. There literature definitly has NLP characteristic for subliminal manipulation.

Tyrone van leyen

As much as I hate that fat ass Rutherford, I think the credit has to go to Russel on this one. Freud was quite popular even while Russell was still alive, and it was he who laid the groundwork for procedural indoctrination en masse. It was fat ass Rutherford, that was the control freak, who perfected it.

alotlikemay

as for hypnotism, in a way the whole thing is based on hypnotism, isn't it? if hypnotism is basically focussing someone's mind on one thing, repeatedly, then that's what happens to JWs - they're fed the Armageddon - New System message so much, repeatedly, that it makes them super-submissive and susceptible to influence...