I thought I would start off my blog by musing about what it would be like if dubs actually told the truth for a change.  In field service they eventually get around to telling the truth, but not before varnishing their real message with lots of feel-good sugar coating.  Only after the prospect is assumed to be hooked on the sugar coating is the bomb dropped and the prospect gets to hear the REST of the story.

This same technique is common in almost any type of sales-driven enterprise: Get the prospect hooked on a "free" gift before you tell them what else they must purchase to receive it.  Or tell the prospects how many inches they will lose off their waists before they notice the fine print that tells them "inches" off their waists are not the same as "pounds" off their body.  Or tell the prospect that the latest prescription drug can reduce the misery of this or that affliction and hope they don't pay too much attention to the small print which informs them that said drug can also make them impotent, bald, crippled, brain-dead, violent,  rabidly insane or hooked up to an iron lung for the rest of their life. You know what I'm talking about.

Then there is this word in the sales world called "helps."  They say their product "helps" stop balding, getting fat, age spots, wrinkLes, stringy hair, asthma attacks, yadda yadda.  They never say the product actual DOES what it is supposed to do; it only "helps" solve the problem.  Helps WHAT solve the problem?Something that ALREADY solves the problem without a need for the product, like the body's own built-in healing system?  They never tell you what.

Likewise, the WTS doesn't claim one can receive eternal salvation simply by being one of them, but only that by being one of them it "helps" that prospect receive eternal salvation.  Or not.  Therefore, even if someone puts up with a lifetime of WT misery and abides by all their rules, there is NO guarantee of anything.

They never tell you stuff like that at the door.  Never.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

 

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