Green Urban Legend

by james_woods 28 Replies latest jw friends

  • betterdaze
    betterdaze

    The black one was issued in 1981 or 1984. Why, I don't know.

    I still remember receiving my very own green bible, along with the Pepto-Bismol pink "Listening to the Great Teacher," around age 4 or 5.
    I felt so grown up! Sister M. would come over and we'd sit at a little child-size picnic table outside in the yard for our study.

    But The kewl thing about the green ones was the dinosaurs on the endpapers.

    Anyone remember the dinos?

    ~Sue

  • justsomedude
    justsomedude
    Anyone remember the dinos?

    I do. I seem to remember them being in the early black bibles too, but I might be mistaken.

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    Yeah, I think Godzilla walked the Deluxe Edition as well - but as I can't remember all that much detail that far back...don't take that as an inspired retro-prophecy.

    I think the black deluxe edition was probably put out during the early to mid seventies, because I remember it well and I quit going in 1981.

    This made me think up one more 1960s style "urban legend" - one of the COs insisted that the thin paper used for the pages of these bibles had been originally made for the "cigarette industry" but that the Society again got a divinely inspired great deal - so evil paper got used for good due to theocratic strategy. What this kind of paper would be used for in a cigarette I have no clue...but, whatever.

  • Paralipomenon
    Paralipomenon

    Do current bibles still have a marker for the Garden of Eden in the map section?

  • heathen
    heathen
    What this kind of paper would be used for in a cigarette I have no clue...but, whatever.

    eh dude that kind of paper is used for the rolling of pot into cigarettes or you could roll your own tobacco , it's way better to use that stuff than the regular paper they use for mass production. It's rice paper and burns way cleaner.

  • james_woods
    james_woods

    Exactly what I thought, heathen - rolling paper, not Phillip Morris paper. If it were true at all...

    But this CO, being an innocent sort as he was, thought it was somehow for the big factories in Durham or Raleigh.

  • betterdaze
    betterdaze

    ***Do current bibles still have a marker for the Garden of Eden in the map section?***

    Yes, with a question mark. Garden of Eden (?)

    ~Sue

  • metaspy
    metaspy

    My physical brother in bethel concurred with the N.H. Knorr theory.
    He said that type of cover is called "Knorr Green" by some at bethel.

  • Nathan Natas
  • pobthespazz
    pobthespazz

    mmm.. interesting , not urban myths though just the wts being slightly different, not harmful to have green bibles , although they were crap quality if I remember.

Share this

Google+
Pinterest
Reddit