Awakened07	Re: Have you read "Signs of the last days?" by Carl O Jonsson?
	Hello there, fellow awakened. I understand your anger (and dissapointment), as I've had the same myself. I haven't read this book, but it doesn't surprise me much anymore that they'd lie and misrepresent to find support for their views.  However, growing up, I was told that the WBTS writers were at least "semi-inspired" (whatever that would mean or how that would work...), and never lied, because they were guided by holy spirit, which would weed out any un-truth. This was "The Truth", after all. I remember thinking (and being told, I suppose) that it was so great that we had these 'pure' magazines and books, because what they contained was the Truth, and so we didn't need to investigate other sources, 'cause it was all in there (everything we needed to care about anyway). In our household growing up, we were not allowed to take the literature with us to read in the bathroom. This would be considered... well, 'sacrilege', for lack of a better word. -So imagine my shock (same shock you're now experiencing, I suppose) when I found that they were in fact lying; misrepresenting, quoting out of context, quoting people as experts in a field when they're not experts, stringing together such quotes in an effort to make the reader reach the WBTS conclusions without stating them outright etc. It's even more sinister because they know that most of their reader base trust them completely, are rather naive, unknowing when it comes to many fields of science, unknowing when it comes to deceitful ways of laying out an argument, common fallacies in arguments, etc. For me, as has also been mentioned in posts above, it was their dishonesty in quoting scientists (and "scientists") in the Creation books that did it. The links in Hellrider's post above are good, although rather lengthy and elaborate, but this page shows the misquotations without extrapolating too much, which makes it easier to see the big picture. So no, I'm not really that surprised anymore. But it does still leave a bad taste in my mouth, and a sinking feeling in my gut, knowing I trusted them 100% for so many years of my life.  I'll see if I can get a hold of Jonsson's book as well. There's a whole lot of reading one needs to catch up on once one has left the Witnesses!
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