by Dogpatch 26 Replies latest jw friends
The Watchtower has all kinds of new propaganda about lies, manipulation of information, etc. up at:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/6/22/article_02.htm
Looks like we've all been lied to by apostates, they are really the true religion after all!!
Choke, puke, hurl
Dogz
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Ha ha. Funny stuff. Funny in that it's PERFECT ammo against the writers ... the WTBTS!
Im gonna be sick to my stomach.
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some gems from the site:
THERE is a difference—a big difference—between education and propaganda. Education shows you how to think. Propaganda tells you what to think. Good educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion. Propagandists relentlessly force you to hear their view and discourage discussion. Often their real motives are not apparent. They sift the facts, exploiting the useful ones and concealing the others. They also distort and twist facts, specializing in lies and half-truths. Your emotions, not your logical thinking abilities, are their target.
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First, examine whether there is bias. What is the motive for the message? If the message is rife with name-calling and loaded words, why is that? Loaded language aside, what are the merits of the message itself? Also, if possible, try to check the track record of those speaking. Are they known to speak the truth? If "authorities" are used, who or what are they? Why should you regard this person—or organization or publication—as having expert knowledge or trustworthy information on the subject in question? If you sense some appeal to emotions, ask yourself, 'When viewed dispassionately, what are the merits of the message?'
in reply i find this amusing, and very contradictory...
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/6/22/article_03.htm
"Good educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion."
well, my guess is they best not ever claim to be good educators
opps, someone beat me to it sorry!
Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America
U.A.D.N.A.--Rhode Island
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The next thing I see will be about hypocrisy.
Love,
Moe
UADNA - FL
Unseen Apostate Directorate of North America - Florida Division
What a bunch of hypocrites.
I noticed there were no references to their own literature that has in the past fit each example of propaganda spreading hate, death, discrimination, dictatorship, supreme race, etc.
Sample from "How to Protect Yourself" [from propaganda]
"The work of the Witnesses is carried out in faithful obedience to Jesus Christ's mandate to his disciples: "You will be witnesses of me . . . to the most distant part of the earth." (Acts 1:8) Their work focuses solely and exclusively on the good news of the heavenly Kingdom—God's instrument for bringing peace to the whole earth.—"
They are "Jehovah's Witnesses, and WatchTower Witnesses, NOT Witnesses of Jesus and their focus on the heavenly kingdom is that there is no hope because all the seats have been taken, unless reading between the lines we see that the heavenly kingdom being God's instrument for bringing peace must be the WatchTower printing house in Brooklyn. If you're workin for 'em you're in heaven already! Right off the bat they misrepresent themselves.
unbelievable self-serving propaganda.
Oh, wonderful!
I recall that when the dubs were asked to prove that Jehovah always had a FDS on the Earth, they would cite Martin Luther as a typical example of an FDS in the Middle ages!!!
Now, they say: "Consider, for example, the lies that Martin Luther wrote in 1543 about the Jews in Europe: "They have poisoned wells, made assassinations, kidnaped children . . . They are venomous, bitter, vindictive, tricky serpents, assassins, and children of the devil who sting and work harm."
Ha Ha, Gurgle gurgle....!
Englishman.
Randy,
Yes, I remember this article first time around.
A transparent agenda coupled with a cynical arrogance made me think that it was written to deliberately test the loyalty and ignorance of its adherents.
This was an especially vile statement given that the tactics described have been heavily used by themselves in demonizing any theology not originating with themselves :
Some people insult those who disagree with them by questioning character or motives instead of focusing on the facts. Name-calling 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 the idea on the basis of the negative label instead of weighing the evidence for themselves, the name-caller's strategy has worked.Especially ridiculous was this quote:
Some opponents of Jehovah's Witnesses have accused them of spreading Zionist propaganda.Of course few if any JW's have ever been accused of this particular notion, and most people know that the WTS is not Zionist in its ethic, but it clearly manipulates the reader into developing sympathies for WTS. On the back of this generated sympathy, it's real propaganda can be introduced.
A bunch of children playing with loaded guns who have shot themselves in the foot so often that they are forced to hop around on the ragged stumps of what were once legs, just to keep their balance.
Best regards - HS
Randy, I remember when this article came out because of the picture on the cover. The white haired guy is one of the elders in the pedophile congregation in North Jersey. He was on the judicial committe that re-instated the Pedophile whilst reminding victims to keep silent. Talking about propaganda, WT fills the bill on all the points they make regarding propaganda. Don't you love how they talk about themselves? [:)
