steve2- I can't believe you're still arguing over the definition of one word! I do hope the full video becomes available, then no speculation, it will be clear. Until then any defense is without burden of proof. The accusation of having been taken out of context by the wts came from Gail herself, so it stands as well-founded. IMO
However---- expecting a different outcome from the same actions time after time is insanity. The wts is disingenuous at best--- purposely and maliciously devious and misleading at worst. If they can't find any true support from anyone else, they just make it up!
This isn't a GYnormous thing, no--- but it's just one more nail in that coffin; one more lie to add to their already illustrious CAREER of LYING. They've butchered many many more than Ms. Jackson's quotes! The following were selected from http://home.comcast.net/~docbob1/misquotes.htm
Have a look:
| Some seismologists believe that the earth is now in an active earthquake period. For example, Professor Keiiti Aki of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology speaks of "the apparent surge in intensity and frequency of major earthquakes during the last one hundred years," though stating that the period from 1500 through 1700 was as active. - 5/15/83 The Watchtower "Earthquakes - A Sign of the End?" | "This is in response to your inquiry about earthquakes [EC:ESH September 24, 1982]. The apparent surge in intensity and frequency of major earthquakes during the last one hundred years is, in all probability, due to the improved recording of earthquakes and the increased vulnerability of human society to earthquake damage. The main reason is the well established plate tectonics which indicates a very steady fault motion over the past many millions of years." "A measure of earthquake strength more objective than casualty is the Richter scale. It is in general difficult to assign the Richter scale to earthquakes more than 100 years ago. An attempt, however, has been made in China, where historical records are kept in better shape than in other regions. Enclosed figures shows the Richter scale (M) of earthquakes in China during the periond of about 2000 years. The past 100 years are certainly active, but there have been periods as active as that, for example, from 1500 to 1700." - Letter from Keiiti Aki to the Watchtower Society dated September 30, 1982 |
| 12 Darwin acknowledged this as a problem. For example, he wrote: "To suppose that the eye . . . could have been formed by [evolution], seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." - ce 18 2 Disagreements About Evolution-Why? | "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory." - The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859, p 133. |
| 5 At this point a reader may begin to understand Dawkins' comment in the preface to his book: "This book should be read almost as though it were science fiction." - ce 39 4 Could Life Originate by Chance? | "This book should be read almost as though it were science fiction. It is designed to appeal to the imagination. But it is not science fiction: it is science. Cliche or not, "stranger than fiction" expresses exactly how I feel about the truth." - Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976, p. ix |
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7831/booklet1.html - this site is only about the wts' gynormous dishonesty in the 'Should You Believe in the Trinity' brochure.
They are liars, pure and simple. Sorry, but it's TRUE!
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