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Lying for 'The Truth'?
by TTWSYF 40 Replies latest jw friends
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parakeet
5thGeneration: The apologist side of me thinks it's no different than if you love your country and work for the CIA and are caught by the enemy.
The difference is that the dubs claim they're God's sole channel of truth, that they in fact have "The Truth."
If they lie, they're not protecting anything (unless it's their own scandals).
If they lie, they prove they don't have truth.
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tec
I guess it was 'contradicting truth' lying to SS soldiers to keep them from rounding up Dubs for the concentrating camps. You're right, I guess I don't get it.
You make a good point here, 5thGeneration. I just thought we were talking about lying about false teachings and prophecies in order to get people to join, or prevent people from leaving.
Tec
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TTWSYF
I guess it was 'contradicting truth' lying to SS soldiers to keep them from rounding up Dubs for the concentrating camps. You're right, I guess I don't get it.
Well, that is people lying to protect themselves, is it not? You spoke of governments lying to protect secrets. That's more like SS troops telling the Jews, JWs, Gypsies, Catholics, artists, musicians etc etc that they were being bathed, not gassed.
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asilentone
lying is unfortunate fact of life, get used to it by now.
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5thGeneration
I just thought we were talking about lying about false teachings and prophecies in order to get people to join
Oh, if that's what we're talking about then I am wrong. No excuse for that! The WT should apologize and spill their guts about past errors for sure. Still waiting... LOL
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asilentone
Thank you, Poppers.
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TTWSYF
lying is unfortunate fact of life, get used to it by now.
People lie, but it can't be a doctrine of faith as scripture is so strong against such a thing. Liars are the dogs and pigs which scripture talks about....imho
dc
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asilentone
I think you are right, but the Watchtower see things differently.