Propagandan keinot

[SuurinBabylon]

Vartiotornin viime vuoden joulukuun tutkittava numero kertoo, kuinka sairaudesta huolimatta "voi saada iloa palveluksesta" (lue: kenttäpalveluksesta ei oteta sairaslomaa). Propagandan laatua kuvaa artikkelin kuvituksen kuvatekstit (http://i44.tinypic.com/2vcdvk0.jpg). Nyt vilpitön Jehovan todistaja tuntee entistä suurempaa syyllisyyttä, siitä ettei ole edes osa-aikainen tienraivaaja kun kerran syöpäpotilaatkin tekevät tuntinsa uskollisesti.

Edes Saatanan asiainjärjestelmä ei vaadi sairaita ihmisiä tekemään työtä (sairasloma, työkyvyttömyyseläke) ja kroonisesti sairaat tai vammoista kärsivät [miehet] vapautetaan myös asevelvollisuudesta.

Vt-seuran kyky manipuloida ihmisiä heidän huomaamattaan on ihailtava. Seitsemän miljoonaa ihmistä on saatu uskomaan jo 130 vuotta myöhässä olevaan maailmanloppuun. Tässä ketjussa vaikkapa yleistä keskustelua Vt-seuran propagandan ja mielenhallinnan keinoista.

[SuurinBabylon]

Löysin vielä mielenkiintoista retoriikkaa Vartsikan toukokuun numerosta.

Järjestö tekee ehkä silloin tällöin muutoksia, jotta hyvän uutisen julistaminen olisi mahdollisimman tehokasta. Ilmaisemme uskoa "aikojen ja ajanjaksojen" Jumalaan mukautumalla täysin tälläisiin muutoksiin samalla kun palvelemme uskollisesti hänen Poikansa, "seurakunnan pään", alaisuudessa.

Oletteko huomanneet miten Vt-seuran kirjallisuudessa todellinen viesti piilotetaan sitaattien ja sivulauseiden sekamelskan keskelle? Vähän samaan tapaan kuten poliitikot puhuvat taloudesta kansalle.

"Ja tälläisessä tilanteessa on hyvin tärkeää, että luomme vahvan pohjan tulevalle kasvulle, ja tämä voidaan toteuttaa parhaiten eduskunnan ollessa yhteistyössä EU:n kanssa sekä ylläpitämällä muiden jäsenmaiden taloutta keinoilla jotka ovat Suomen kaltaiselle maalle kohtuullisia, kuitenkaan ottamatta kohtuutonta taakkaa muiden sijoituksista, sillä Suomen suhteellinen taloudellinen itsenäisyys on myös hallitusohjelman yksi tärkeistä tavoitteista."

Lause oli hatusta vedetty, mutta kuvaa sekä Vt-seuran että politiikkojen käyttämää tapaa ilmaista asioita.

[ajoulupukisti]

Propagandaa käytetään, koska se toimii. Sama tekniikka, ei väliä oli kyseessä poliittinen puolue tai uskonnollinen järjestö. En ole vieläkään törmännyt selvitykseen, miten erottaa manipulointi jumalan hengen ohjauksesta (toisaalta enpä ole enää jaksanut etsiskelläkään... ehkä jumalan henki johdattaa minun pakeilleni jonkun, joka voi siihen vastata).

Voisikohan osa-aikaisten tuntiale tulla pysyväksi järjestelyksi? En hämmästyisi vaikka niin kävisikin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques

[Kaarmis]

Hämmästyisin jos niin ei kävisi.

[Markku Meilo]

Hämmästyisin jos niin ei kävisi.

Vartiotornoseuran Jehovalta eivät keinot lopu, aika vaan käymässä vähiin. Siksi tavoitteita lasketaan kaiken aikaa, jotta jullikka ei kävisi liian ilmeiseksi. Tässä Jehovalta tulleita tavoitteita noin 70 vuotta sitten, ajalta jolloin seurakunnat olivat komppanioita (jotta armeijavastaisuus oli oikein kukassaan, oli myös pioneereja):

These expressions of God's will by his King and through his established agency constitute his law or rule of action for the "faithful and wise servant" and for their goodwill companions today who will dwell upon the earth for ever in the New World. The Lord breaks down our organization instructions further and makes them more practicable by further instructing us through his "faithful and wise servant". He says, `Let us assign the field, the world, to special pioneers, regular pioneers and companies of Jehovah's witnesses in an orderly way, sufficient for everyone to thoroughly witness therein, and let us place upon each one the responsibility of caring for the New World interest in these respective assignments.' He says the requirements for special pioneers shall be 175 hours and 50 back-calls per month, which should develop into a reasonble number of studies; and for regular pioneers 150 hours and as many back-calls and studies as can be properly developed during that time.

And for company publishers he says, `Let us make a quota of 60 hours and 12 back-calls and at least one study a week for each publisher.' These directions come to us from the Lord through his established agency directing what is required of us; and, for those who really love the Lord and are guided by his counsel, that is a reasonable service requirement. This expression of the Lord's will should be the end of all controversy. It is for your good that these requirements are made; for thereby you are enabled to prove your integrity and magnify the Lord's name.

These directions from the Lord come to us as individuals and as collective units called "companies". Almost everyone who is consecrated to the Lord recognizes that a company requires organization in order to function properly, but not all of these same brethren appreciate the fact that they as individuals require just as complete an organization to carry out their individual responsibilities as the company does. To illustrate: All realize that every company should have a definite assignment of territory in which to witness, but not all appreciate that each individual in that company should have his or her own personal assignment of territory in which to witness. It is just as foolish for a publisher to conclude that he can serve the Lord properly without a personal assignment as it would be for a company to decide that it could function acceptably to the Lord without a territory assignment. A company is required to have an assignment and to systematically work in it from house to house, make back-calls, conduct book studies, and generally aid the people of good-will. They are to carry on all the forms of magazine work in that assignment. They logically hold their own city and such adjacent territory as they can properly handle. It would be the height of foolishness for them to leave their own city and go to a city twenty miles away held by someone else and try to systematically witness in it. Every intelligent person will admit that that would be not only foolishness but rank unfaithfulness to the Lord. The same principle applies to the publisher who refuses to accept the responsibility for a personal assignment of territory and have that assignment as close as possible to his home. The farther away from his home that assignment is, the less time he will have to devote to it and the more difficult it will be to give proper attention to the interest in the territory. Consequently, it is a measure of unfaithfulness to the Lord to thus waste time and energy that belongs to him.

The time has come when each one must bear his own burden fully before the Lord. With the provisions that the Lord has now made in supplying us with new books, question booklets which contain complete instructions for properly carrying on a study, etc., there is absolutely no excuse for anyone, man or woman, to claim to be unable to accept an individual territory assignment and assume full responsibility for it. Those who really love the Lord and are fighters for the New World will not try to excuse themselves on that or any other ground, but will hear the Word of the Lord when he says, Let _us_ do thus and so, and always keep in mind the _us_ includes the Lord, who will be with you in every undertaking. -- Matthew 18:20.

The Lord through his "faithful and wise servant" now states to us, "_Let us cover our territory four times in six months_." That becomes our organization instructions and has the same binding force on us that his statement to the Logos had when he said, "Let us make man in our image." It is our duty to accept this additional instruction and obey it. But someone will say, "The conditions are different. In the case of the Logos, he could accomplish what Jehovah commanded him to do; but when it comes to covering our territory four times in six months, that is out of all reason. We have never covered it more than once or, at the most, twice in six months. It just can't be done." We have all heard that argument before. And if it were true it would look bad indeed, and would imply that the Lord was asking us to do something that is impossible for us to accomplish. The children of Israel walked around Jericho _seven_times the _last_ day." (w43 July 1 p. 204-206 "Righteous Requirements")