by KateWild 58 Replies latest watchtower bible
So WTS pull up all these Hebrew and Greek words in a full page explanation using complex jargon to convince the reader that the bible does say "organization" but in its own way.-Emery
Thanks for this example. I don't suppose you can find out the WT reference for me. I don't have the CD rom, and the WT library doesn't go that far back.
I have only read CoC, do you think I could have come across the the term intellectual intimidation in that book?
Kate xx
Unfortunately people with perhaps a weak intellectual mind set will no doubtably be drawn in to the WTS.-Fink
Is it impossible for WT to recruit a intellectually strong individual?
I think they have recruited many
Kate xx
They aslo use subliminal messages by using buzz words and symbolismis pictures this is a everday practise used by advertsing agencies and tv programmes such as the news etc
What exactly is intellectual intimidation?
also www.hiddenmysteries.org/religion/mincontrol
there is a long piece on that
outofthecocoon.net-casssuk
Thanks, just had a look, it got the BITE, I have got the book they're quoting nothing about intellectual intimidation.
I googled "intellectual intimidation of Watchtower" and came up with answers. I think these 3 are excellent.
You will find an excellent discussion at http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/thinking-ability-and-watchtower.html
concerning what AWAKE had to say about thinking for yourself when they apply it to evolution and other outside thoughts. It quite well can help you see that they know exactly what intellectual intimidation is.
Excerpt from http://yahislove.blogspot.com/2010/01/watchtower-false-dates-and-crisis-of.html
"If any expressed doubts about the Society's chronology,the very quality of their relationship with God was subtly placed in question--along with their faith and wisdom.This is a form of intellectual intimidation,a practice that increased manyfold once 1914 had passed by,failing to fulfill the expectations published worldwide." p.198 "Crisis of Conscience"
As Franz points out,there was intense importance and constant emphasis placed on these false dates,in many cases for more than 50 years,being POSITIVELY proclaimed.Of course now in the publications,a picture is painted that minimizes the importance they attached to these dates,saying that they were predicted as mere "suggestions" or “possibilities.”
"Since the vast majority of their readers have no access to their earlier publications ,the articles can trade on their ignorance and can downplay the force of the predictions by a selective use of quotations and either gloss over or deliberately ignore other clear statements made." p.200 "Crisis of Conscience"
Some of the phrases the WT has incorporated to describe their false predictions were "God's dates","emphatically manifest","firmly established","established truth","definitely marked","already in progress"(in reference to the final battle that was to culminate in 1914),"proven"..etc..
But afterward and now they assert that they "merely infered".This is journalistic and intellectual dishonesty in the highest order.
TRUTH BE TOLD, the documentary, shows much of their intellectual intimidation. (Start at http://watchtowerwatch.com/blog/someday-you-may-see-the-truth-be-told)
They use loaded language a lot, which is one form of what you are talking about, for example "right hearted ones blah blah " mature christians blah blah" etc.
Loaded questions too are a speciality "Do you, as a Christian, think that ....blah blah ?".
There are even more subtle ones where try as you might you cannot fault the actual statement, but we know how thw average JW will interpret the words in their own mind.
"Mentally diseased" for example.
I simply cannot bring myself to read their trash anymore, but shortly after I left I began to notice all this stuff, along with logical fallacies and false argumentation of all sorts, half truths, misquotes/half quotes and downright lies, in every piece of their literature.
I asked myself, if they had the Truth, why use such underhanded subterfuge ? and if they really believed it themselves, how could such an idea to work that way come up in to their heart ?
The two answers were plain to me.
One of the tricks used by many institutes,religons organizations is to make you think you are excercising free will in other words people are programmed to act as a self regulator its an illusion of free will but in reality the free will is restricted .For example a witness ma yfeel they have free will but at the same time ar econditioned to beleive the WT is the Truth and provider of Truth alone this is hugely restrictive and the consequences of thinking the opposite is such a chasim between the two things that for many its too far to go from one to the other. SOme cannot handle that step or journey even if they know it sone they should take. Even trying to take th emiddle ground is a no no. Meaning to question,debate or discuss things that you may have had a revelation or come to understand is no possible
