I remember reading an article, maybe from the 70's not sure, where WTBTS condemned people who misquote people for their own purposes.
I'd be thankful if anyones remembers this and could post it here.
Watchtower's stand on misquoting
by The JHWH 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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braincleaned
Yes -- I have to check, but it was about how to recognize untruth. It was one of my favorite! I THINK it was in 1984 - petty sure, but not 100% - and I do recall it being in an Awake! Again, my memory is not fresh on it - but I absoltely want to find it again.
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Juan Viejo2
If the Watchtower says it or prints it...
It's a lie.
JV
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AnnOMaly
Any good?
g78 8/22 p. 3 Do Others Do Your Thinking?
Propaganda has power. Does it overpower you? Or do you have a mind of your own?
EDUCATION teaches you how to think. Propagandists tell you what to think. True educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion. Propagandists hammer hard on their view and discourage discussion. Many times their true motives are hidden. They sift the facts, tell the favorable ones and conceal the others. They distort and twist facts, specialize in lies and half-truths. Your emotions, not your logical thinking abilities, are their target. Many fall easy prey because it takes no effort to feel, whereas thinking is hard labor. And the propagandist sees to it that his message is made to seem wise, the right and moral one, and gives you a sense of importance and belonging if you follow it. You are one of the smart ones, you are not alone, you are comfortable and secure-so they say.
Propagandists have little respect for people's thinking abilities. Hitler wrote: "The intelligence of the masses is small. Their forgetfulness is great. They must be told the same thing a thousand times." Lenin was more discriminating. He used historical and scientific arguments to persuade the educated minority, but slogans and half-truths to arouse the masses, whom he considered unable to grasp complicated ideas. ...