by MissingLink 46 Replies latest members private
I find these misquotations as completely unethical. All ethical writers try their hardest to keep the context of a quote when using them, and the WTS is deliberately deceiving doing the opposite. This borders on evil.
Can you imagine if the New York Times (or any other distinguished publisher) was caught like this? They would lose all credibility. I guess I'm preaching to the choir here, they have lost all credibility!
Thanks ML!
changeling :)
Excellent work, I remember reading the quotes when taken in context and was heartened to see that secular sources weren't agreeing with the WT--no, it was the WT's familiar out-of-context quotation.
Tagged for future reference.
Excellent work! Thank you. Marking for future reference.
BIG RESPECT for refusing to take your children to listen to this propaganda and for all your research ML,
Well done mate!
Its Fathers Day here in the UK and you get the BEST DADDY award today!
wonderful research. Thank you!
Hey guys. Thanks for the support. Just to be totally clear -- While I did do some digging, the bulk of this research came directly from Barbara Anderson. The only think I'm really bringing to this is editing it, making it relavent to the current watchtower study, and adding in the school guidebook quote that shows the WTS is aware that this type of misquoting is not acceptable.
This week I'll be editing this a bit more and sending it off to Brooklyn asking for a correction to be printed in accord with standard journalistic practices. I don't expect this to have any effect other than "outing" me to my local elders. But my father suggested if I found things weren't right I should write to the GB. I said I would, so I will, even if it means this might trigger my DF.
Thnaks for the best dad award. My little boy woke me up this morning and gave me a Father's Day card he made in school. This stuff makes the hassles all worth while.
Missing link, They (at Brooklyn) will tell you that this is "their opinion",
I have noticed recently in my wifes cong, the elders always give their opinion as the absolute truth.
Recently the PO wrote to the branch office and said:
"Brother fokyc is very well educated and spends much time researching on his computer",
this of course was intended to be derogatory and inform the branch that anything I said was rubbish!
fokyc
WT April 15, 2008 p. 22, par. 10:
In a recent survey in the United States, 75 percent of all first-year university students described their principal goal in life as being "financially very well off".
Actually, they didn't. http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/08statab/educ.pdf
Page 179, table 278: The Census Bureau wanted to see how importat financial success and a couple of other things are to teenage students. Of course, all students weren't asked, it's only a representative sample. Anyhow, the teenagers were asked how important it is to them to be financially very well off, how important it is to them to develop a meaningful philosophy of life, and how important it is to keep up to date with political affairs.
Not surprisingly, in 2005 approximately 75 % of the teenage students wanted to be rich ("very important" or "essential"). Also, 45 % of them wanted to develop a meaningful philosophy of life, and 36 % wanted to keep ut to date with political affairs.
This does not mean that 75 % of the students described their principal goal in life as being "financially very well off". If so, then we'd also have to say that in addition to these 75 %, there are 45 % whose principal goal is to develop a meaningful philosophy of life, while for 36 % the principal goal is to keep up to date with political affairs. That's 156 % alltogether.
Of course, the survey didn't ask them about the principal goal of life. It ony asked them how they relate to these three isolated objectives. I'm pretty sure that if they had included a question about how important it is to have a boyfriend/girlfriend, that would be "very important or essential" to even more than 75 % of the students.
Edited to add: If I ask any young person about the importance of developing a meaningful philosophy of life, I'd be delighted if they understood the question. The fact that 45 % responded that it's "very important" or "essential" is astonishing.
Thanks, and I have bookmarked this page.
when I was in high school, I had a 3.2 gpa. math honor society too.
the brothers and dad discouraged me to further waste time on education. went to trade school, even that was looked down upon.
I am LUCKY to be successful. many professionals at interviews have overlooked me due to my degree (or should i say no-degree).
if I had a degree, in my field......... not only would I make more $$$$, but have a easier time. (not to mention that my grammer would be better)
