Outlaw - LOL!!!
Your thoughts on our "favourite" religion's description of cultic propaganda?
by Fernando 13 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Glander
Propaganda has power. Does it overpower you? Or do you have a mind of your own?
EDUCATION teaches you how to think. Propagandists tell you what to think. True educators present all sides of an issue and encourage discussion. Propagandists hammer hard on their view and discourage discussion. Many times their true motives are hidden. They sift the facts, tell the favorable ones and conceal the others. They distort and twist facts, specialize in lies and half-truths. Your emotions, not your logical thinking abilities, are their target. Many fall easy prey because it takes no effort to feel, whereas thinking is hard labor. And the propagandist sees to it that his message is made to seem wise, the right and moral one, and gives you a sense of importance and belonging if you follow it. You are one of the smart ones, you are not alone, you are comfortable and secure—so they say.
Propagandists have little respect for people’s thinking abilities.
This is a keeper. Though referring religious beliefs, it also describes perfectly the political choices chosen by many people.
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Fernando
Outlaw, I've been meaning to ask for a while now...
...just where on earth do you get these outrageously relevant pictures from?
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Fernando
Given the 1978 date of the Awake article, I would not be surprised if they too were written by Ray Franz.
Given that the article on "legalism" is also g79, it seems he found a way to get his most damning stuff printed in the Awake. Maybe at the time the GB Nazi's more closely scrutinized articles that would appear in the Watchtower.