For instance, the October 2011 Public edition.
How what was that about?
Writing dep.
by obarac 23 Replies latest jw friends
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slimboyfat
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Londo111
Let me cut and paste what I posted in the thread, 'Re: October 1st 2011 WT - Five Lies About God Exposed'. I seem to have proved to be the thread killer on that one. Let's hope not this time.
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What I find striking is the similarity in thought with the above link from the life story of former Witnesses Jeff and Kathy Schwehm, "How many of you have ever been deceived? Has anyone ever lied to you? Has your parents, Pastor, or best friend ever lied to you? How did you feel? Were you devastated? Did you ask them why they had deceived you and were their explanations less than satisfactory?"
Compare this to what is found in the opening article of this Watchtower, "FEW experiences hurt more than learning that someone you trust has lied to you. You might feel humiliated, angry, or even betrayed... You might hesitate even to consider the possibility that you have been lied to about God. What you know may have come from someone whom you trust and who would never intentionally hurt you—your parents, a priest, a pastor, or a close friend. You may have believed a certain teaching all your life."
And what is interesting is that the last article in the magazine is " When Was Ancient Jerusalem Destroyed? PART ONE" And the whole 607 BCE teaching, upon which is of critical importance to the 1914 doctrine, was a lie I've believed almost all my life.
Does anyone else find this odd or is it my imagination?
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watson
Since there is an ongoing "dumbing down" on the literature, I suspect they don't need to have much more than a HS degree. Perhaps that's another reason to keep them anonymous, to keep it from being said that a bunch of home-schoolers or dropouts are responsible for the drivel.
Sorry to say, I think the folks on the "Writing Committee" are brilliant. They serve a purpose.
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Vidqun
Who is in the Writing Department? Only God knows.
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designs
I heard Ianelli speak at a KH in southern California some years ago, he was actually a nice guy and seemed care about the friends and the bad PR the Society generates. You should try and contact him at Bethel.
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fokyc
Eric Beveridge still writes articles for the Awake and takes photographs for the same articles.
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Whoever needed actual writing talent to write for the WT? CT Russell's ramblings were a bunch of millenialist fluff punctuated with time prophecies, the Judge's writings were tabloid style attacks on several different targets, and Freddy Franz had a writing syle better suited for a 1950's teenage version of Reader's Digest. Getting an A in High School English is probably the only qualification these current guys have.
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slimboyfat
Oh that reminds me I was talking to a brother a few weeks ago who claimed that it was another local brother who actually wrote the WT article in the late 1990s that approved higher education under certain circumstances. I don't know how credible that is. But if it's true I would be fascinated to know what he thinks about it now, given the Society has done a complete u-turn on the issue.
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thinking_1
I know there is a Bro. Black in the writing department. Mid forties white guy, rumor has it he did a lot of the Bible Teach book.
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slimboyfat
Whoever the writers are these days they all seem to have mastered some apparently key skills such as:
1) repeat what has already been said in the literature a hundred times before
2) use a lot of nice sounding words to say nothing much at all
3) use scriptures as prooftexts without regard for the context or story they came from
4) don't say anything new or particularly interesting
5) if you must say something new then make it especially absurd because you are not accustomed to coming up with your own arguments
6) mention as often as possible that respect for the Governing Body is the very highest virtue any human being can aspire to
7) point out that people in the world lack knowledge, morals, happiness, fulfillment and a hope for the future whenever you can
8) when you can't be bothered producing an actual argument for a contentuous proposition simply claim that your assertion is "evidently" true
9) sprinkle the text with terms that only JWs use or words that JWs use with a perculiar sense that others will not readily understand
10) when composing the text imagine you are talking to particularly stupid child and emphasis that view by setting questions for the paragraphs accordingly
11) when making up a fake experience to bolster you point call the dude Andre