food for thought.

by zev 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  zev

  Think about this.
  
  

  The labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and them promptly forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself- that the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink.~~~~ 1984 .. by George Orwell ..page 32
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  berylblue

  Nineteen Eighty-Four is a most powerful book. After I had finished it, I was literally speechless and in shock for a day. Not just because of its powerful message, but because of the similiarities between the government in that book and the WTS.

  Rosemarie
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  manon

  George Orwell is a fascinating writer his dissection of poltical party thinking and inner mechanisms of government is right on the mark. I read his books 1984/Animal Farm years back the message remains fresh and new timeless.
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  Scully

  I first read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in the 10th grade. I was 15 years old. I found it extremely disturbing because it seemed to describe the JWs and the WTS so well, particularly because I had begun to have doubts of my own.

  Love, Scully
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  zev

  I MADE ONE WORD CHANGE.

  THINK ABOUT THIS TOO.

  The labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the ORGANIZATION was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and them promptly forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself- that the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand "doublethink" involved the use of doublethink.~~~~ 1984 .. by George Orwell ..page 32