"WT Publications are all propaganda!" admits the Awake! magazine

by 00DAD 32 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  00DAD

  Read this lovely little admission and judge for yourself:

  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. - Awake!, June 22, 2000, pp. 9-11 – [Emphasis added]

  So what is it? What DO YOU think?

  1. Do the WT Publications show people how to think, or what to think? (The answer is NOT in the paragraph. You'll have to think for yourself).
  2. Does the WT Leadersip encourage or discourage open discussion and debate about ideas and doctrine?
  3. Do the WT Publications ever accept input from their members or do they only " relentlessly force you to hear their view"?

  If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, what is it?

  
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  cedars

  Let's review: it's a cult!

  Cedars
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  Lied2NoMore

  Looks like a duck and quacks like a duck???? oh oh oh I know.....I know.......

  ITS A CULT!

  ding! Ding!
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  Lied2NoMore

  Damn cedars beat me to it
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  00DAD

  Cedars, great tag line. I think I'm gonna' use it!

  Lied2NoMore, Don't feel bad. Cedars has beat me to the post on several occasion. It'd be really annoying if if weren't for the fact that I know we're both playing for the same team!
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  carla

  What would a jw say to that?

  also marking to print later!
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  wasblind

  Do the WT Publications ever accept input from their members or do they only " relentlessly force you to hear their view"?____OODAD

  FALSE PROPHETS

  If Someone says_____

  ' My minister said that Jehovah's Witnesses are false prophets '

  You might reply :

  Or you could say :

  Another possibility :_________Reasoning from the Scriptures book page137

  But Jus' don't use any thing we deliberately omit like Dueteronomy 18: 21-22

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  wasblind

  " ( If a householder refers to some claimed " Predictions " that did not come to pass, use the material on page 134, and from the bottom of page 135 to the top of 137. ) "____Reasoning from the Scriptures book page 137

  I repeat. Don't use the Scripture THE WTS did not include in that chapter

  If the houselholder quotes Dueteronomy 18: 21-22. RUN !!!!!!!!!

  BECAUSE THAT SCRIPTURE DESCRIBES EXACTLY WHAT WE AS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES ARE

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  FadeToBlack

  Excellent find! Thank you very much. I will be using this info ASAP. In response to how did you find this, I will say I was researching 'education' on the WT CD lib. Imagine if we had congregations where people actually discuused stuff like we do here. I would actually want to go to those meetings.
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  00DAD

  wasblind, thanks for helping to arm us against the evil one.

  FadeToBlack: Imagine if we had congregations where people actually discuused stuff like we do here. I would actually want to go to those meetings.

  Um, yeah! Imagine ...

  BTW, there's no need to lie. You read that article online, here at jw.org:

  • Do Not Be a Victim of Propaganda!

  It's the very first paragraph in the article, the last in a series of three on the subject. Here's the whole thing for your abusement:

  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.

  Creepy, isn't it, once you know TTATT. In that paragraph they out-and-out say exactly what they do!

  Couldn't be any clearer than that.