Do you think the Watchtower makes up experiences by people ???

by run dont walk 37 Replies latest jw friends

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  mapleaf18

  yeah, the big tipper part as a whole is probably a watchtower left on the dresser with $1.57 in coins
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  Pole

  If they misquote verifiable sources, why should they not misrepresent mostly unverifiable sources?
  
  Pole
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  daystar

  If they misquote verifiable sources, why should they not misrepresent mostly unverifiable sources?

  Zing!
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  seattleniceguy

  If they misquote verifiable sources, why should they not misrepresent mostly unverifiable sources?

  Zing!

  LOL! SNG
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  R6Laser

  Does anyone; on the board know of someone who was in the magazines as an example? Or were you yourself?

  Damselfly

  I was picked years ago to give my example at a DC. The speaker was looking for a young witness in high school to give an experience on how he was persecuted in high school by peer pressure of other school mates. I remember talking to the elder who was going to give the talk and he was asking me if anything had happened with me in school that he could use in his talk. I had nothing so we made up a story of how there were other kids in my high school pressuring me to start smoking, me being the good example denied it and gave testimony about Jehova to the evil kids in my school.

  Basically all my stories were mostly lies, I lived what they called a double life while I was a MS, funny thing was that almost all the young ones were doing the same thing. I remember giving talks on things not to do and I was even conducting the second school and giving people advice on things I didn't follow myself. After a while I just stopped attending the KH and faded away.
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  LongHairGal

  Do you mean like the experiences of people in third world countries that have been heard at assemblies.
  
  You know the ones I mean where people swim across crocodile infested rivers, climb mountains, hack their way through a jungle - just to get to their meeting.
  
  Maybe there is a grain of truth somewhere in these stories but I always felt somewhat angry that anyone would try to manipulate my emotion of guilt.
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  gringojj

  I honestly dont believe there is an ounce of truth to the experiences they write. I often wonder when they have a picture of the person who is it? Does anyone know anyone who has ever had thier picture or someone they knows picture used in a wt or awake? I was thinking, in the most recent awake, the story of the german couple whos lives were saved by the awake article on tsunamis. The names of the people are there. Why doesnt someone write the wts and say that they are long lost relatives and need thier address right away to contact them. They cant say they dont know who they are. Or even call bethel and ask to speak to the writer. LOL what would they do? Also in that article, it said the whole cong from 85 miles away rushed to the scene to look for the jw couple, and that was very christian-like. So how about all the thousands of other people whos lives were in jeapordy that day? Looking for themis not the christian thing to do?
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  ithinkisee

  The experiences that bother me the most are the real-life ones at the conventions.

  In my case though, when I think about the people that are up there giving the experience about "No regrets" or "How they wouldn't change anything." it is usually because they are trying to convince themselves too.

  I don't have proof of it ... but I know some of those people personally that have given those experiences and many are emotionally unstable. Not all ... but many.

  -ithinkisee
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  DaCheech

  I know from personal true experience that my "experiences" done on stage were coached by the circuit overseer to "encourage" exaggerate.
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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  I can't say with any authority whether these experiences are made up entirely of whole cloth, but am I the only one that notices that perhaps they twist events in a positive light? For example:

  "When we worked in Sendai for the first time, Mr. Inoue, the president of Tohoku Imperial University, granted me a personal interview. He accepted the books I had with me and then escorted me to the entrance to see me off."

  Is it just me, or does it seem just as likely that a more truthful telling of this might have gone like this? : I was so persistant that Mr. Inoue finally allowed me to see him out of Japanese politeness. When he realized what I really wanted was to try to convert him, he became outraged and kicked me out of his office, following me all the way to the front door to make sure I didn't bother anyone else on the way. It was only after I was outside the locked door that I realized I had left my bookbag behind, but then thought it was just as well, since technically the literature was now placed, and I could count it on my field service report.

  I remember once as a child asking my father to explain the word 'propaganda' to me. I was one of those inquisitive children of the sort that stumps adults with all kinds of questions, but my father was very good at answering them. Here is what he said: You like racecars, right? Well say the Americans and Russians had a race, and there were no other cars. Say the American racecar wins. Well, the next day the headline in Pravda (he knew I knew that Pravda was the state owned paper) would say "Russian car places second, American car comes in next to last".

  I think that the WTS does things like that, making statements that are technically true, but yet still twist the truth.