>>LOADING THE LANGUAGE
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He's right. We have words for "don't-calls", sheep, lamb, pioneer, Bethel, etc. In fact, my engineering degree, by this guy's definition is a cult certificate. We say capacitor, induction, Faraday effect, Miller effect, feedback loop, oscilloscope, tank circuit, and on and on. We electrical engineers are a cult ! Holy cow!<<
Wrong. He ignored the comment "the outside world does not use the words or phrases *in the same way* -- it becomes a "group" word or phrase" -- non engineers don't usually use terms like capacitor or Miller effect, but if they did they would have the same meaning. JWs use words like 'truth' 'service' 'meeting' 'independent thinking' etc. which have different meanings from the rest of the world.
>>NO! Words represent concepts. We witnesses deal with concepts that the general world isn't interested in. Yes we have a jargon. It's verbal short cuts, but it is not thought-stopping.<<
There are plenty of thought stopping terms:
truth: no point in ever questioning something that is true
apostate: no point in listening to their poisoned words
apostate literature: it's poison, don't read it
opposer: don't even talk to them
christendom: rubber stamp the entire group, nothing they say or do is worthwhile
born-again: a wack job jesus freak don't listen to anything they say
>>Totalist leaders claim to be agents chosen by God, history, or some supernatural force, to carry out the mystical imperative
Who is our totalist leader? What man? Russell? Knorr? Freund? Hershel? Heck, I'll bet most witnesses don't even know the name of our current president. Maybe this applies to the anointed 'mystic leaders'. Yeah. All 8000 of them<<
This guy can't get off the 'leader as a single person' straw-man. The statement above fits the GB perfectly.
>> Legitimizes the deception used to recruit new members and/or raise funds, and the deception used on the "outside world"
Deception? No, I have never found any here inside. <<
Neither had I until I started checking quotes and references. Even if there were no other problems with the Society (of which there are a mountain of them) I would still have left because of the dishonest shoddy scholarship, and 'theocratic warfare lies' ..