"Yes please Brother Morris!!! I will have the blue pill. It looks happifying and cleansing!"
"My brain NEEDS a good washing!!!"
by bytheirworks 18 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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caliber
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
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Ellen GilcristThere must be input of perceived values for some source...what will this be ?
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end ( in my opinion) it is issue of mortality and love... but to "pray, pay and obey"is simply not enough
"general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community-interests, guided by values of solidarity and sympathy and concern for others; or, alternatively, there will be no destiny for anyone to control. "
(lost this quote source sorry )
Somehow there must be individual freedom within community concern and interest
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
- John Ray -
Emery
"Don't say I didnt tell you so in 40-50 years when your brain cleaning wears off and Armageddon is still just around the corner"
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caliber
must be ready to obey any instructions they receive, whether these instructions appear sound from a human standpoint or not.’
( November 15, 2013 journal issue of The Watchtower)
This would be an example of true brainwashing... when your "common sense" and "inner moral compass "must be supressed
*** g86 10/22 16 A Tragic Saturday That Shattered My Family ***
But that was only part of the campaign to dissuade me from studying the Bible with the Witnesses. One of my brothers was a Baptist minister, and he spent three hours trying to tell me how to be a good Christian and to stay away from Jehovahs Witnesses. My father said that the Witnesses would brainwash me, to which I replied that my brain needed a good washing, since I had been taught so many untruths for so many years.
the true meaning of brainwashing is to suspend critical thinking and rational decision making
it is a "process of thinking " or maybe not thinking ...not the end result``
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ShirleyW
When i used to tell my mother she was brainwashed for following all the JW crap, she used to say "thank you".
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Gopher
The alternate term the WT uses for brainwashing is "inculcation". (6 of one, half-dozen of the other.)
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SAHS
When the Governing Body says “Jump,” we say “How high?”
And when they say “we need a good brain washing,” we say “Yes sir! Make it clean as a whistle for Jehovah [droooool].”
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Hortensia
I don't remember that one. But, I've often thought about another one: "an open mind is like a garbage disposal. It accepts everything." That, of course, totally discounts the possibility of learning to be a critical thinker.
