words that motivate.
our communication has to pass through the mind of another human being and survive what his or her mind is going to do with it!.
wordsby themselveshave to motivate the listener in the same way a combination lock will open if the correct numbers are dialed in exactly the correct sequence.
Your "Language that manipulates" subheading reminds me of a quote by Noam Chomsky:
"I don't try to persuade people, at least not consciously. Maybe I do. If so, its a mistake. The right way to do things is not to try to persuade people you're right but to challenge them to think it through for themselves."
i always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.
i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.
so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".
what do you think of the following line of reasoning for helping a jw start to think about what they are admitting.. (essentially, the organisations way of handling child abuse has been wrong, harm has been caused, god is now putting it right.).
reply:.
"i appreciate your honesty, in admitting that child abuse has not been handled in the right way in the past.
I imagine JWs will use the "Jehovah is cleansing his organization by means of [insert name of secular authority here]" excuse.
Problem is, this is NOT one of the Society's teachings, and it NEVER HAS BEEN.
here is a quick breakdown of our conversation (by text message).
me: "have you read about the royal commission?
the org has been covering up child abuse.
Oh gosh. I can imagine my one BIL spewing the exact same bullshit.
"When good thing happens it's the truth,
and when bad things happen it's the truth,
and when good things and bad things happen at the same time,
that's the clearest proof
that it's Jehovah gods clean organization. . . . "
i posted this on a pro-jw site:.
this is the official policy sanctioned by the governing body.
it's not about indivuals being molesters/deviants.
i always sit in the same spot, just outside starbucks in a vestibule area with a table in the air-conditioned space.
i say "always," but not today.. somebody with two laptops and a table filled with business ledgers was in "my" favorite spot!.
so, i took a tiny wooden table inside the coffee shop on a long padded bench next to 3 other identical tables.. as the clickbait banner ads like to say: "and what happened next was simply unbelievable!".
while i'm glad that the practices of the wts are under review and the australian commission is taking them to task, i'm not really expecting huge changes in the long run.
oh, they may have to agree to some changes in how they report crimes brought to elders' attention, but this excitement over the supposed expose of wt practices shall pass, and jws will soon be canvassing neighborhoods and rolling their carts, looking for converts.
conventions will go on.
From what scientists understand, about 4.5 billion years ago a celestial body the size of Mars smashed into Earth, creating the moon.
And if there were conscious inhabitants of earth back then, I'm sure they would have thought, "This too shall pass."
And indeed it did.
But every night, people look up at the moon in wonderment.
apparently the backroom arguments have been heard and decided.
the royal commission finally uploaded a redacted version of the 2015 branch manual.
watchtower lawyers were looking to have as much redacted from this manual as possible.
yes or no.......what say you?.
i'll start - no!.
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I think this is going to happen.
The fact that it's scheduled for Friday makes me think the legal dept will spend the week coaching him.
at the beeting now having my mental faculties raped.
in the song before the watchtower it says "...royal commision..." in one verse lmao.
i had to contain my jerk ing my head up and looking around.
Song 84:
"To his royal commission he proved true, and lovingly said: "I want to."
