COUNTERKNOWLEDGE

by badboy 6 Replies latest jw friends

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  badboy

  `COUNTERKNOWLEDGE' IS THE PHENONOMA OF THEORIES ETC BASED ON CONSPIRACY THEORIES, QUACKERY. ETC

  THE UNDERMINIING OF REASON IS GOING ON.
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  Carmel

  I have a good friend that is a carpenter. He builds custom cabinets with amazing counter tops. His knowledge of counters is without comparison! carmel
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  Mincan

  All authority should be questioned.
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  badboy

  THIS PERSON SAYS THAT COUNTERKNOWLEGE COULD UNDERMINE ECOMONIC SUCCESS ETC ETC.
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  Gopher

  People need education or else they can succumb to counterknowledge.

  Here's an interesting website on the dangers of counterknowledge: http://counterknowledge.com/?p=57

  The website defines "counterknowledge" as misinformation packaged to look like fact. It goes on to claim: We are facing a pandemic of credulous thinking. Ideas that once flourished only on the fringes are now taken seriously by educated people in the West, and are wreaking havoc in the developing world.

  Recent examples --

  • George Bush planned the September 11 attacks.
  • The MMR injection triggers autism in children.
  • The ancient Greeks stole their ideas from Africa.
  • “Creation science” disproves evolution.
  • Homeopathy can defeat the AIDS virus.

  Those of us who were exposed to Watchtower doctrine could probably come up with 100 examples we learned at their feet.
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  badboy

  THANKS FOR THE LINK,GOPHER.

  WHAT EXAMPLES OF WATCHTOWER COUNTERKNOWLEGE CAN YOU THINK OF?
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  Gopher

  Examples of Watchtower counterknowledge, too many to list -- through the years they had so many.

  We do well to bear in mind that among the drugs, serums, vaccines, surgical operations, etc., of the medical profession, there is nothing of value save an occasional surgical proceedure. Their so-called "science" grew out of Egyptian black magic and has not lost its demonological character.... we shall be in a sad plight when we place the welfare of the race in their hands. (Golden Age magazine 8/5/1931)

  Thinking people would rather have smallpox than vaccination, because the latter sows the seed of syphilis, cancers, escema, erysipelas, scrofula, consumption, even leprosy and many other loathsome affections. Hence the practice of vaccination is a crime, an outrage and a delusion. (Golden Age magazine 5/1/1929)

  They used a supposed increase in earthquakes to "prove" the end was near in the 20th century. (They've since backed off that claim.)

  Their books on evolution vs. creation are full of misquotations to cause the reader to think that nearly the entire scientific community has serious doubts about the theory of evolution.

  They lie when claiming that the 607 BCE date for the first destruction of Jerusalem is a fact.

  There are many other examples where they knowingly contradict various areas of science just to support their flimsy doctrinal foundations.