More JW Folklore, Enjoy

by moomanchu 35 Replies latest jw experiences

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  BurnTheShips

  This story formed almost the entirety of a talk I have heard twice in my KH. I heard the Spanish version. Burn
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  nonamegiven

  Yeah, that happened to me too, didn't you guys hear about it?
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  Paralipomenon

  Old story, he used to be a biker. Hells Angels I think.
  
  Oh and the Japanese language is made up of phonetics and their own braille language maps to Japanese. Braille isn't a universal language of the blind but rather a tactile representation of the language you can understand.
  
  I'm sure the Korean Brothers showed remarkable appreciation for the Japanese Braille books.
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  Seeker4

  Thanks for the reference, Blondie, I knew this had been in the literature.
  
  It's way over half a century old, and I've heard the embellished version many, many times over the years and used it myself, I'm sure, in some talks.
  
  Incredible to see this is still floating around all these years after I first heard it.
  
  Obviously parts of this were really worked over to add to the effect, especially when comparing the "official" WTS version.
  
  A true story in some ways, embellished to become mythical, I think.
  
  S4
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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  Just out of curiousity, I did a Google search to see if I could find a non-JW source for this story. This is the only thing that came up, from a webpage claiming to be from 'The Canadian Institute of English'. I noticed while scanning briefly through the entire page (which is rather long), that the writer apparently had a very religious background, there were many references to how rock music caused people to kill, a statement that comparing the human brain to a computer was an insult to the creator of the brain etc that I would expect from a fundy. For somebody that was supposedly educated, there were a lot of grammatical and spelling errors too...

  Prof Malcolm J Watt M.Ed on "Audio Lingual Programming"-

  "Another man, named KimihiroNakata, was a violent death-row prisoner who had been paid to kill two men. Eventually, while in prison, he began to study the Bible and after getting baptized was described as “one of the most zealous Christian I have known” by a close friend. While in prison, he studied Braille and transcribed the religious literature into Braille. These publications were distributed to various parts of Japan, including schools for the blind. Of course, it may be reasonable to question the validity of this experience as some criminals may hide behind religion as a way of expecting punishment. Yet, KimihiroNakata willing accepted capital punishment to satisfy justice and did not use any new found religion as a means to sidestep responsibility. Clearly, KimihiroNakata faith, or “unity of spirit, a divine timeless cosmic affinity” had a profound effect on his mental programming."
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  OnTheWayOut

  Sparkplug said a bad word-

  Fukuoka
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  Alligator Wisdom

  Just out of curiousity, I did a Google search to see if I could find a non-JW source for this story. This is the only thing that came up, from a webpage claiming to be from 'The Canadian Institute of English'.

  Just for your information, 'The Canadian Institute of English' is run by JW's.

  Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother NOT Exerting Vigorously by WTS standards)
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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  Thanks Alligator Wisdom, I wasn't aware of that...although the guy who wrote it definitely seemed to have a religious background, and the syntax in a few places raised some red flags about his objectivity...

  "...transcribed the religious literature..."

  For instance, the use of the word 'the' in that line; an objective writer would have just said he 'transcribed religious literature', the use of the word the implies significance. And then...

  “unity of spirit, a divine timeless cosmic affinity”

  ...is completely biased, and the quote marks indicate it was not his own words, yet didn't give a source. So apparently, there are NO non-JW sources on the net for this story...which either means the story is completely manufactured, or that it was of so little consequence to the rest of the world that it just never got recorded anywhere else.
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  Quandry

  I am thinking that it does indeed come from an outline, as my husband gave that talk so many times I could have almost told you every bit of it. Perhaps it is true. I do not know. I do know, though, that he did give this talk in many kingdom halls. No dry eyes in the place when he was through.
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  pobthespazz

  New one on me macabre and sick, just like the WTS, and utter B/S as well.......