Looking up a Lewis Carrol (1832-1898) quotation this evening, to prove with logic that Logical is the 'Evil Slav', I think I inadvertently stumbled upon a true Watchtower mind. Could Carrol have been at least a forerunner of Russell?
THE EVIDENCE:
On DFing policies, attitudes to 'sinful humanity' at Armageddon
The queen was in a furious passion, and went round stamping, and shouting, "Off with his head!" or "Off with her head!" about once a minute.
Of Attitudes to childrearing:
Speak roughly to your little boy
And beat him when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases
Of CT Russell's 20/20 prophetic vision:
He thought he saw an elephant
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
'At length I realise," he said
The bitterness of life
Of WT scholarship:
Speak in french [or Greek] when you can't think of the English for a thing
On higher education:
I only took the regular course…the different branches of arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision…That's the reason they call them lessons…because they lessen from day to day
Of the imminence of the New Order:
The further off from England the nearer is to France-
Then turn not pale beloved snail,
But come and join the dance
The rule is: jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Women giving talks:
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Of Kingdom Melodies:
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.
Of the pure language:
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe"
Of the 'Reasoning' book (and 'Make sure of all things'):
Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
"But, 'glory' doesn't mean "a nice put-down argument", Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty replied in a rather scornful tone, "it means exactly what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Of end-times prophesy:
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax,
Of cabbages - and kings,
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings"
It's uncanny ain't it?
Philo