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Old 07-22-2011, 08:05 AM   #19
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Default Re: Local Church Double-Speak

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Originally Posted by zeek View Post
Wikipedia defines Doublespeak as "language that deliberately disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs), making the truth less unpleasant, without denying its nature. It may also be deployed as intentional ambiguity, or reversal of meaning (for example, naming a state of war "peace"). In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth, producing a communication bypass."
The most obnoxious of all WL doublespeak was this little phrase "The Office."

We were all continually told about all the faithful serving brothers and sisters functioning as Levitical priests behind the scenes, carrying out the Lord's burden to spread the riches of Christ throughout the whole earth ... phooey! ...

but what WL really meant was his son, Philip, an unregenerate, obnoxious, can't even rise up to the level of a backslider, abusive bully who was in charge at LSM.
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