Marley Cole, a Watchtower Stooge?

JAVA

Thanks to Wasasister, I just received a copy of Jehovah's Witnesses, the New World Society, by Marley Cole, Vantage Press, NY, 1955 printing date. As some of you know, Cole wrote this book under the pretence that he was only interested in writing about the JWs, and didn't identify himself as a JW. Note what the jacket cover says about him:

"ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marley Cole, after a year at the University of Tennessee, decided he wanted to be a newspaperman. He began at the bottom, on a country weekly in his native state (he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee), filling a variety of jobs, from printer's devil to adman. After working on the Middlesboro, Kentucky, Daily News, he became a correspondent for the Knoxville Journal and News-Sentinel. He originated a travelogue radio show that won him a position as promotion manager for a national foods manufacturer in Minneapolis.

Mr. Cole has written articles, some in collaboration, for Life, National Geographic, The Nation, Billboard, Color, and other magazines as well as news correspondence and radio scripts. At present his is a partner and general manager of a building-stone company in Knoxville, Tennessee.

He has long been interested in Jehovah's Witnesses and has traveled all over the country reporting their conventions and assemblies. Much of the material and atmosphere of his book was gathered in this way.

He is married and in his thirties. His hobbies are photography and music."

The book is nothing more than an info-mercial for the Watchtower Society, and dishonest because Cole never identifies himself as a JW, but says he was only "interested the Jehovah's Witnesses." There was discussion on this forum about the timing of the book. Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave came out a year or so before Cole's book, and some believe the Watchtower edited most of the content. One can't help wonder if they financed it, too.

Does anyone know if Marley Cole is still living?

Wasasister, thank you so much for sending the book my way. It arrived in good condition in the mail yesterday. You're the best!

--JAVA

...counting time at the Coffee Shop

Maximus

Yep.

M

AlanF

That intro is a fine example of "lying by telling the truth". Much like if you get a phone call for your wife from someone she doesn't want to talk to, the person asks, "Is Sheila in?", you motion for her to step outside the door, and you answer, "No, she's not in." You haven't told a blatant lie in a single sentence, but your words deliberately mislead -- and that's what lying is all about. Like Mommy, like son, no?

Cole is alive and an active JW, last I heard earlier this year.

AlanF

JAVA

Maximus,

You're a person of few words. Do you know if he's still a JW? Has anyone on this forum talked with him?

--JAVA

...counting time at the Coffee Shop

outnfree

Maximus,

Was that "yep" to Marley Cole, a Watchtower Stooge?

Or "yep" that Marley is still alive?

Or both?

outnfree

JAVA

AlanF,

Thanks, and you're right about "lying by telling the truth." Yes, Cole learned well from the Mother Organization of deception.

--JAVA

...counting time at the Coffee Shop

sf

Tidbets:

< http://www.rofrisch.de/mcole/

< http://www.geraldbecker.de/a_cole.htm

(scroll the entire page here for loads of "schtuff" dating back to 1877)

sKally

Fredhall

Don't be a horse ass guys. Marley Cole has something that you guys don't have. And that is a heavenly hope.

JAVA

sKally,

Is there an English link?

--JAVA

...counting time at the Coffee Shop

ofcmad

Whatever Fred--

Don't be a horse ass guys. Marley Cole has something that you guys don't have. And that is a heavenly hope.

I never knew that those just interested in JW's would have that 'heavenly hope'. I wonder if you will mention that to the WBTS writing committee next time they are tapping their pens and thinking of some "NEW LIGHT"?
Or have they changed that since I left?

Ofcmad

"Noah was a drunk and look what he accomplished." The Metatron/Dogma

Marley Cole, a Watchtower Stooge?

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