This book is one of the best book I've ever read. It describe well the technics that the Watchtower use to manipulate their Jehovah's Witness.
Did you read the book "1984" of Georges Orwell?
by Nicolas 28 Replies latest jw friends
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StinkyPantz
Yes, I've read it.
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justhuman
A MUST read for those who are exiting mind control cults like JW's, Mormons etc. It was my first book that I started to read when I was in the process of getting out the Borg.
It discribes the technics that Big Brother - the leaders of the party have been using upon the masses. And I was suprised to see that the GB was doing the same.
My favorite line from this novel that fits exactly to the WT is:
Everything faded into mist...the past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth...
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Piph
I'm in the middle of reading it right now, actually.
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justhuman
Good Piph
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LittleToe
I haven't read that for over twenty years.
In my pre-1984, very-JW days, I applied it to the Great Tribulation.
Now I take an altogether different slant on it. -
Freedom Fighter
I've recently re - read it and the parrallels are amazing to the JWs.
Great book that really sets you thinking.
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Midget-Sasquatch
I did at age 16. It was an especially interesting read for me because I first read the book "The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses". That got me interested in reading the novel.
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lawrence
JustHuman-
That line brought back many memories when I read '1984' in school. '1984', a reverse of 1948, and what Orwell projected to happen by then. George wrote a book previous to '1984' that was seminal to many of the thoughts in '1984' - 'Down and out in London & Paris' - anyone read that book? Very insightful to life, societies, and control.
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franklin J
amazing how the totalitarian creeds are all the same.....the people always suffer