by hillary_step 16 Replies latest jw friends
an excellent post!
You do a neat job of exposing the deliberate deception that the Watchtower has grown so skilled at.
I often wonder, what would be so wrong with making religions liable in court for any verifiable fraud ?
No one can prove or disprove who goes to heaven but false dates for Armageddon are verifiable
and cause harm to people deceived thereby. Why should Tobacco companies be held to a higher standard
than the Watchtower?
metatron
Why should Tobacco companies be held to a higher standard than the Watchtower?
That's a very good question, worth repeating.
My own view though probably it is of little interest to anybody but myself, is that all religions, like doctors and others who deal in lives and destiny, should without exception be licensed by a Government free of mystic fetters and insured against the legal ramifications of those who choose to sue for not getting what they were promised.
Actually, I found this very interesting, and as written, makes very good sense.
Nice to read you, HS.
I suppose that their apprehension about events in France, and worse still, their ramifications and possibility of reverberation throughout the EC well explains their abortive, clandestine rapprochement with the UN and the ameliorating of much of their most strident anti-government rhetoric.
HS Excellent post, as usual you are very well informed.
Stephen Hardy at London has until recently been wringing his hands about the the whole debacle,
Something has changed though in the past few weeks, there is a different air about Legal at London almost a cocky attitude.
They have taken on a new human rights barrister.
It will be interesting to see what highly paid advice they have taken. Thats all I know for now
Watch this space
Cas
Thank you all for your kind words.
Caspian,
I believe the WTS will win its case in the European Court Of Human Rights if only to counter the worrying precedents being set in some of the Balkan Lands where the erosion of civil liberties are concerned. Many of these countries are seeking membership of the EEC. Whatever your view of the WTS is, what has happened in Georgia is an outrageous attack on civil liberties. However, the WTS will *never* win against the French Government which is already firmly set on its anti-cult course, with the backing it must be said, of large parts of the Belgium and smaller parts of the German government.
France has suffered for many years from internal terrorist attacks by extreme Muslim factions. They are not persecuting the WTS which is just one of many groups put on notice by a Government which has the courage to try to curtail the excesses of anti-social religions and high control groups like the Scientologists. As religions like the WTS cannot function without the feeling that it is the 'World against Me', they obviously think all the other groups singled out by France are just a Satanic smoke-screen to get to the real target - Gods true Organization.
Bye the bye, do you hear much of David Judd these days?
Best regards - HS
HS,
A very well written post. Thank you.
I’ve wanted to comment on that very WT article. I’m glad you did it for me. IMHO, this quote is another great example of the WTS’ propaganda machine in action:
Propagandists often use the word like "sect" to stigmatize others. In a recommendation to the Parliamentary Assembly Of The Council Of Europe, a suggestion was made that the authorities who investigate new religious groups "would be well advised to forgo using this term
Who made the suggestion? What authority on ‘cults’ approached the PACE with this recommendation that helps the WTS cause?
The reader of the article is led to believe that someone else besides the WTS approached the PACE with this suggestion about cults. An authority who echoes the WTS cause. An authority that Jehover is maneuvering like a puppet to help His Earthly Organization’s cause.
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With the authority never being identified, that’s what the reader is left to conclude.
But the reality of the matter is that the WTS is pleading the PACE themselves, but that is never said. And what is left unsaid and left for the reader to then assume is the one of the highest crimes that is committed on the victim reader of the article.
The WTS is an expert at this type of propaganda.
Quotes are cited without any references. And the reader is left to assume the goodwill and intent of the WTS.
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The WTS articles are written is such a way not unlike a person running through a marathon race through a major city.
You run here, then you run over there, then over to the next street. And along the way you are handed glasses to drink of what you assume are filled with water.
But the WTS is really slipping you water mixed with alcohol. Oh, at first you get the water straight up. But eventually alcohol starts to be slipped in. And each glass farther along the race has less and less water and more and more alcohol. By the end, you look back in a drunken stupor not knowing what happened.
You never realize that you were being slipped Mickey Finn’s all along.
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This type of BS propaganda is the first reason I starting Q’ing the WTS. I believed everything they wrote. Not until I started to smell the propaganda did I realize that I’ve been slipped Mickeys all along.
The WTS starts off with some credible sounding info, but then switches gears and starts inserting half-truths. By the end of an article, the WTS is stating complete lies based on the previously mentioned half-truths.
It makes me sick.
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HS, keep us posted on this. And Caspian too. I want to see the WTS called the Spade as they really are.
Winston.
