FARKEL- Good hearing from you guy ! Very good list on your part . Great examples. I especially like the circular reasoning one that was great. And the false analogy of comparing the World Wars as reason to believe those were the wars predicted in the 1st century ! And indeed the " false dillemma was so true - " stay with us and live forever, or leave us and stay dead forever . " It is just the way Jehovah's Witnesses see it. And naturally that all apostates are liars. That way they scare their members turdless from ever reading anything we put out there ! LOL ! Such mind control. Peace out, Mr. Flipper
Recognizing Common Pitfalls of False Argumentation - By Ray Franz
by flipper 13 Replies latest jw friends
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exwhyzee
Farkel nailed it !
What do you call it when they debunk Scientists or the Clergy as being unreliable andm even from Satan and then quote them when they agree with the Societies doctrines ? Is there a name for that?
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Farkel
:What do you call it when they debunk Scientists or the Clergy as being unreliable andm even from Satan and then quote them when they agree with the Societies doctrines ? Is there a name for that?
Um, "hypocrisy" comes to mind. But in logic it is a combination of different fallacies: "appeal to authority" and "ad hominem" are the two main ones, though.
"Thousands of scientists agree that global warming is a big problem. Therefore, global warming is a big problem" is a good example of an appeal to authority as well as a good example of the "ad populem argumentum" fallacy. If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
People using such fallacies cite authorities who agree with them and ignore those who don't. A more eggregious example would be, "JF Rutherford was once a judge. Therefore, he would have had to been an expert on the Law." Everyone who's studied the JW movement knows that Rutherford only served a few days as a substitute magistrate in a chicken-shit little burg in the Midwest. That hardly qualified him to be an expert on the Law.
Farkel
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EXWHYZEE- I agree with Farkel. Hypocrisy galore on the WT society's part. They are very full of themselves too . Quite arrogant -WT knows everything , allegedly- not.
FARKEL- Very true. Rutherford was such a tool. Talk about someone deriving benefit from an overblown reputation ! I mean he controlled the WT society and JW's for a time like Hitler controlled Germany ! A real power tripper. Who never got to meet Moses and the prophets at Beth-Sarim like he dreamed of ! Oh well, there's always the resurrection ! Peace out, Mr. Flipper