Why the WTS love to name call! Awake June 22

by ISP 28 Replies latest jw friends

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  ISP

  Ever been called an apostate? Other such name or label? Well you should know why and how such names are used and why they are used purposefully by the WTS.
  Awake June 22 ,2000 page 6
  

  Some people insult those who disagree with them by questioning character or motives instead of focusing on the facts. Namecalling slaps a negative, easy-to-remember label onto a person, a group, or an idea. The name-caller hopes that the label will stick. If people reject the person or idea on the basis of the negative label instead of weighing the evidence for themselves, the name-caller's strategy has worked.

  ISP
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  Gopher

  ISP,

  Oh -- but it's ScRiPtUrAl when the JW's slap a shameful label on a group! Obviously, they're God's organization and have the right to judge people as such! They're much more Christian than anyone else! And don't argue!!

  GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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  OUTLAW

  Hey ISP,WTBS wants us to take their advise because their not using it.Pretty generous eh?Now if they could just toss us some of the cash their not using!LOL...OUTLAW
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  Englishman

  ISP,

  Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't there a pub near you called The Brooklyn?

  Englishman.

  Bring on the dancing girls!
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  refiners fire

  They all love to label education as well. Especially university education. "Science",Intellectuals","Philosophy","So called-Higher Education"."humanism".
  Rutherford was a great label hanger.
  "Big business",
  Hows this little passage, just selected at random from the WT of June 15, 1922 "Few Politicians are sincere,they have no intention of taking the people into their confidence,all their utterances must be considered with the allowance that a politician rarely says what he thinks,and that his words are framed with the purpose of enlisting public opinion for some intended later action"...
  One long label.

  Burn Rutherford..BURN.
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  You Know

  Calling an apostate an apostate is not name calling. It is an accurate designation that signifies what a person is. For example: Referring to a prostitute as a prostitute is not name calling. It merely describes what a person does for a living. Similarly, when spiritually corrupt Jehovah's Witnesses make it their mission to undermine the faith of their former brothers, and set stumbling blocks before others, the term "apostate" is entirely appropriate. As much as you may dislike the label of apostate, it is a branding mark that you must wear. Personally, I think for some of you the more descriptive moniker of "apostate Bozo" is even more fitting. LOL / You Know
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  Budda Belly

  YK said,

  "accurate designation that signifies what a person is."

  The best designation to describe you is "IDIOT".
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  refiners fire

  No. Brother U-NO is right. Id never thought of it like that before.
  I DO set pitfalls to trap Witnesses and lure them out of the "truth" (slur label).
  But then I do it in all good faith. I believe I am trying to save them from an "evil empire" (another slur label). My conscience is completely clear. Just like theirs . the orgs.(slur)
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  Room 215

  You Know,

  Calling a JW to account or insisting that he defend his/her beliefs by use of the ``law and the attestation (Isa. 8:20) is hardly subverting the faith ...may I remind you that you have in previous posts called several of the Society's current beliefs ``indefensible.''

  The Biblical definition of apostasy transcends mere disagreements over doctrine and policy; it involves the wilful denial of God and Christ. By one Biblical definition of apostasy, 2 Timothy 2:17,18, might not the first two presidents of the WTBTS be regarded as apostates? --One postulated the resurrection of the sleeping saints as 1878, the other as 1918, I believe.

  If you care to extend the definition of apostasy to one who asserts the urgings of his conscience ahead of uncritical, total subservience to a religious body, you do well to consider what your participation in this forum suggests about your personal regard for Jehovah's bountiful spiritual table."
  
  It's paradoxical that this religion of yours, arguably the most proactive and public of all, simply cannot withstand the scrutiny, or trial, in open forum.
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  Bang

  Hey, You Know, your leaving yourself wide open there - you know.

  Bang