Scam Marketing !

by Phizzy 2 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Phizzy

  We are constantly being attacked by Scam Marketers who create a perceived need , not a real one, and hence create within us a want. If we fill our desire for that thing or things by buying in to it, we then end up with totally unnecessary expense. We have been Scammed.

  Whether that be something to do with the latest Fashions and Trends, the latest 'phone, car or something similar.

  The longest running, and most lucrative Marketing Scam in all Human History has been Religion. Religions create a perceived need, and hence a want, for gods in our lives, and create a "sin" or "sins" that are no more real than their gods, that we need "Salvation" from. It costs us much, in the form of actual $$$, and personal cost to our Quality of Life.

  The J.W religion from its start, but especially since the time of Rutherford, has used Scam Marketing.

  As Mark Twain sagely observed : " Religion was invented when the first Priest met the first Gullible Fool".

  Learn to identify all Scam Marketing, and you can lead a Happy, and Fulfilled life, at a much much lower cost !
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  Touchofgrey

  Like the emperor's new clothes, which most people praise or seem to believe something that is false or of no value because they are afraid to go against the general opinion.

  Our ancestors didn't understand the natural elements and explained them as gods and then science has explained these things.

  Today we can read and write and have the internet to fact check almost everything especially regarding the origin of religious beliefs and religion in general and discover that the origins are man made, but because of fear of going against the general opinion and that we have been and people are still being lied too ,but people are now seeing through the controlling influence of religion and are breaking free and we are now becoming a more secular society.
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  DesirousOfChange

  . . . Most lucrative Marketing Scam in all Human History has been Religion.

  I think religion was conceived by the aristocrats to give Hope to the lower classes.

  The farmers, herders, peasants who scrounged just to survive and were in hopelessness needed something to give them hope. Religion told them that it was not their fault they were suffering. It was because of the evils of others. BUT, they could have a grand prospect in the future.

  So it is today. Religion still promises HOPE for the future. Eternal life in Paradise (earthly or heavenly). No sickness. No death. No evil. No sorrow.

  It is the scam that has worked for millenniums and continues on to this day. Yet, no evidence that anyone has been anything but scammed.