Current Deception: March 8 Awake

by metatron 9 Replies latest jw friends

  • metatron
    metatron

    Looking for nonsense and half-truths in the Awake continues to offer all the challenge

    of shooting fish in a barrel. The latest scare-mongering is entitled "The Nuclear Threat

    How Real is It?".

    Let us first consider that this article is naked proof that Watchtower writers deliberately

    and consciously attempt to deceive the public RELATIVE TO THEIR OWN STATED

    BELIEFS!! The 1983 12/22 Awake clearly ruled out a nuclear Armageddon in a thorough

    step by step analysis. Why would the Watchtower Society suggest a future they

    'know' to be untrue? Because they secretly know that their own beliefs are speculative

    nonsense? Because they don't care about lying anyway? Judge for yourself.

    While tensions with Russia are portrayed as hair-trigger, the facts speak differently.

    THIS PAST WEEK, Vladimir Putin was publically embarassed by missile failures

    that openly occurred in War game demonstrations. Russia increasingly depends

    on manned bombers to maintain itself - because so much of its hardware won't work.

    ( and bombers are safer). While Russian military satellites are deteriorating, they

    continue to sell their best rocket launchings to Western nations that pay good money

    for communications orbitings.

    The Awake editors apparently see no significance that thousands of nuclear weapons

    'put on the shelf', in storage is huge progress - since such are unlikely to be an immediate

    threat - and will deteriorate in time, requiring their deconstruction.

    And terrorists? They said to have a good chance of creating a nuclear detonation

    simply by taking fissile material and "dropping one half of it onto the other half."

    (pg. 7) The experts at the Awake should inform all those third world nations that they

    don't need to smuggle kryotrons or other precise triggers for their bombs. It's just so

    simple!

    And dirty bombs? They're a threat, true, but let's not forget that Japan survived

    two atomic blasts and ended up as one the earth's most prosperous nations anyway.

    Actually, there is evidence that small amounts of radiation may benefit health

    - it's called "radiation hormesis".

    "Nuclear war, can it be avoided?" Well, has it been avoided for more than fifty years?

    I guess that means it can, huh?

    "Can we simply accept the promises of humans?" (pg. 9)

    After 120 years of false prophesy (Armageddon is Soon!), I'd ask:

    "Do those promises come from humans employed by the Watchtower Society?"

    metatron

  • Gretchen956
    Gretchen956

    This is nuts. Where are they getting their information? I'm pretty good about reading whats out there and have seen absolutely nothing on this. I actually worked at the Hanford Nuclear Site for 7 years. I know that a lot of what you quoted is not only not practical, not feasible, but absolutely not even possible. But why let a little thing like science or physics get in the way of a good scare story?

    cheezus h crist

    Gretchen

  • RandomTask
    RandomTask
    taking fissile material and "dropping one half of it onto the other half."

    Funny! Jesus tap-dancing Christ!

  • seattleniceguy
    seattleniceguy

    I seriously can't even stand to look at Awakes anymore. They're so freaking stupid. Maybe the articles about animals are okay if you edit out the last propaganda paragraph, but that's about it. The cover articles are so blatantly scare-mongering, it blows me away. How did I read this drivel before?

    The other day I saw the cover article for a recent Awake: "Are Your Taxes Too High?" What, high taxes are a sign of the times? Gimme a break! Can anyone say Rome, 2000 years ago?

    Jesus H. Christ, God Almighty, Amen!

    SNG

  • Flash
    Flash

    Fear, guilt and self doubt are the WTBTS greatest tools in steering and controlling people.
    It's a major effort for me to read or hear any of their propaganda anymore!! Besides, they change with the wind.

  • dustyb
    dustyb

    one thing. correct me if i'm wrong, but since SPACE has no atmosphere, sattelites can't really get old unless they're exposed to meteorites or something like that, correct? i mean, since there is no air to cause corrosion or rust or wear and tear (no friction), then how can a sattelite eventually get old and worn out. there's solar energy, so they don't need any batteries at all...i don't get it. btw, any common sense guy that knows politics knows that there is nobody in this world stupid enough to start a nuclear war for quite awhile....

  • drawcad_1
    drawcad_1

    My knowledge on this subject is completely limited. There are items in satellites that seem to wear out over time. The batteries do not go on forever, the orbit slowly degrades, and there are probably other things that go wrong. It seems like everything has to be replaced at one point or another. Wasn?t the existence of the Hubble in question just a while back?

    As for the threat of a Nuclear Armageddon, I think that this is how the uneducated are supposed to be scared. I will agree that at this time in history we are probably at more of a risk of Nuclear weapons explosions from small governments or terrorist groups, but I seriously doubt annihilation. The whole idea behind nuclear proliferation was to stop such a threat. A few years back I heard a teen girl talk about the threat of an all out nuclear war at that time. This was during the time that the Soviet Union had dissolved and the threat was not the same as during the cold war days.

  • Nosferatu
    Nosferatu
    i mean, since there is no air to cause corrosion or rust or wear and tear (no friction), then how can a sattelite eventually get old and worn out.

    I remember when Anik E2 (I think it was E2) that went all berzerk and half the TV channels got slaughtered.

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32
    I seriously can't even stand to look at Awakes anymore. They're so freaking stupid.

    Well said SNG. When we last stayed at my dub parents' house, I was thumbing through the recent WT and Awake mags... It was good for a few laughs.

  • czarofmischief
    czarofmischief
    one thing. correct me if i'm wrong, but since SPACE has no atmosphere, sattelites can't really get old unless they're exposed to meteorites or something like that, correct? i mean, since there is no air to cause corrosion or rust or wear and tear (no friction), then how can a sattelite eventually get old and worn out. there's solar energy, so they don't need any batteries at all...i don't get it. btw, any common sense guy that knows politics knows that there is nobody in this world stupid enough to start a nuclear war for quite awhile....

    In one sense, that's true enough. But things happen. The orbit tends to get pulled into the Earth due to gravity. Plus, space debris (and there's a lot of it up there, these days) can wreak havoc. And even the best orbit won't fit the needs of tomorrow, meaning the satellites have to be either replaced or reset. And the constant improvements to technology mean that newer, better satellites are always being sent up anyway. But the nations that can't afford them are stuck renting space from the ones that can.

    As far as nuclear war goes, well, it's just too HARD to keep nuclear weapons up and ready to run. It's expensive. Even water in the launch tower can screw it up.

    the russians were very embarrassed.

    CZAR

Share this

Google+
Pinterest
Reddit