How did I miss this last month? Thanks for this Terry, it's the sort of detailed information that should get wider exposure. I don't suppose I'm surprised at Watchtower's quote mining and dishonesty anymore but it still wrankles every time I see it.
WATCHTOWER AND BULLSHIT VIEWS ON SCIENCE (THE WATCHTOWER JUNE 2015)
by TerryWalstrom 17 Replies latest watchtower bible
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TerryWalstrom
While the Watchtower does not often inform, it never fails to entertain! -
Slidin Fast
I am going to have a quiz session with my wife. Read the full quote, choose the WT snippet.
If you have to misrepresent the work of others to prevent the failure of an argument then the argument fails.
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Vidiot
Oubliette - "It's strange they'd quote Steven Weinberg. He's well known for this observation: 'With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.'''
Pretty sure the irony went "swishhhh" over the heads of the Writing Department that day.
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Vidiot
Slidin Fast - "If you have to misrepresent the work of others to prevent the failure of an argument then the argument fails."
Once again, for the lurkers, newbies and trolls...
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...if you have to cheat to defend your beliefs, your beliefs don't deserve to be defended.
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stuckinarut2
Yep...quote mining at its best...
My cousin always used to point that out to me. He opened my eyes to the way the writers cherry pick comments out of context...now its all I can see.
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TerryWalstrom
I have come to believe the ellipsis . . . was invented by divine providence so as to allow J-Dubs to teach
their timeless 'Truth.'
EXCEPT!! Read the following definition for the telltale sentence which rips the Watchtower's usage apart.
- Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission" or "falling short") is a series of dots that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.
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disposable hero of hypocrisy
Slidin, that is an excellent idea. Spot the bit, the tiny bit that could be taken either way, the one snippet of information that you'd use if you needed to prove something the original writer wasn't saying..