Before you debate me read this: http://www.freeminds.org/psych/beel.htm A Study of the Persuasion Techniques Used by Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower A research report submitted to Tabor College, Adelaide, by NATHAN CHARLES BEEL as the Directed Study Project component for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Christian Counselling--- November, 1997. -Introduction -Lifton’s Criteria for Thought Reform -Milieu Control -Mystical Manipulation -Loading the Language -Doctrine over Person -The Sacred Science -The Cult of Confession -The Demand for Purity -The Dispensing of Existence -Hassan’s Criteria for Mind Control Behaviour Control -Information Control -Thought Control -Emotional Control -Conclusion -Propaganda -Cognitive Dissonance http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ Examples of Fallacies : AKA:"DON'T PISS DOWN MY BACK AND TELL ME IT'S RAINING " Boloney Detection Kit Inductive Argument Premise
1: Most American cats are domestic house cats. Premise 2: Bill is an American cat. Conclusion: Bill is domestic house cat. Factual Error Columbus( discovered America) is the capital of the United States. Deductive Fallacy Premise 1: If Portland is the capital of Maine, then it is in Maine. Premise 2: Portland is in Maine. Conclusion: Portland is the capital
of Maine. (Portland is in Maine, but Augusta is the capital. Portland is the largest city in Maine, though.) Inductive Fallacy Premise 1: Having just arrived in Ohio, I saw a white squirrel. Conclusion: All Ohio Squirrels are white. (While there are many, many squirrels in Ohio, the white ones are very rare). Index Ad Hominem Ad Hominem Tu Quoque Appeal to Authority Appeal to Belief Appeal to Common Practice Appeal to Consequences of a Belief Appeal to Emotion Appeal to Fear Appeal to Flattery Appeal to Novelty Appeal to Pity Appeal to Popularity Appeal to Ridicule Appeal to Spite Appeal to Tradition Bandwagon Begging the Question Biased Sample Burden of Proof Circumstantial Ad Hominem Composition Confusing Cause and Effect
Division False Dilemma Gambler's Fallacy Genetic Fallacy Guilt By Association Hasty Generalization Ignoring A Common Cause Middle Ground Misleading Vividness Personal Attack Poisoning the Well Post Hoc Questionable Cause Red Herring Relativist Fallacy Slippery Slope Special Pleading Spotlight Straw Man Two Wrongs Make A Right "SELF-TERMINATING CLICHES ------- all apostates are 'full of hate' and 'hate the truth'. OCCAM'S RAZOR aka the K.I.S.S. rule "Keep it simple silly" Cognitive dissonance : When Prophecies Fail A Sociological Perspective on Failed Expectation in the Watchtower Society by Randall Watters: http://www.freeminds.org/psych/propfail.htm DANNY CALLS THIS CULT PHENOMENON (cognitive dissonance); "JUSTIFICATION OF SOUR GRAPES". e.g.The car of my dreams was sold to another party just as i got there,ahhh,it was probably a lemon anyway...or,armageddon didn't come in 1975,just think,"now apostates will have time to make it back". Last but not least dispargement/mudslinging e.g.:"apostate opposers R full of bleep cause they like to,""Throw around LARGE words"
to show that they R know-it-alls" ....... or "Your post is silly. JWs aren't like you depict them. You seem very hateful and bitter. Seek help. Watchtower's canon of ethics [Rules] Also known as; 'approved operating procedure' [ A.O.P.]Jehovah'speak = doublespeak. Carefully crafted cult rhetoric. JWessse It's plain old: mealy mouthing, innuendo / deception / flim-flam / hoodwink / bamboozle / fraud / mind games / confidence game / blowing smoke and bluster...... It's the, deflection "JEOPARDY GAME" Framing false "profitcy$" in the form of a QUESTION ??
