The scandalous effect of JW childrens literature. Why not investigated? (page 2)

jambon1

Thanks for all your posts and help on this one guys. ;-)

Jambon, good thought but I do disagree. I do not recall any scary thoughts from these pictures as a bornin, and just yesterday on NPR they had a good illustration why. "If raised in a Italin family and and every day your mom good garlic sausce, you would would not really smell it." Because it is a constant odor. Seeing this $hit from two years and up lets you color on the whore, and make blood the right color in the black and white pictures..........oompa..........no harm done, and I could gut a three headed lion!!

WTWizard

What bothers me the most is that, if I were to read a worldly book like Harry Potter that had this level of violence, they would have a stroke. That, even though most books and horror films that feature this magnitude of destruction are fiction. Those films where a mystery disease or a destructive force is threatening a whole city or state are usually rated PG-13 or R; on TV, they are typically rated TV-14 with a strong parental advisory.

The biggest problem is that the Watchtower Society has such a problem with adults watching these works of fiction. In a work of fiction, you are not really threatened by what is happening on the screen. And they keep telling people not to watch those films or read those books. Whereas the Watchtower Society paints such destruction as reality, using it to initiate threat of force to keep the Witlesses in line under threat of being the victim. All their literature, and many of their meetings and a$$emblies, feature this level of gore and violence. It is graphically depicted, and it is depicted as reality and repetitively. They see nothing wrong with that, even though a movie based on it would likely be rated PG-13 or stronger.

Hmm, I thought PG-13 movies were supposed to be stumbling blocks, and those R- rated movies are off-limits. Hypocrites.

compound complex

Greetings, jambon1:

Below is a link to a related aspect regarding iconography - pictorial material relating to written subject matter:

"How the Society Portrays Cultural Diversity."

www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/133995/1.ashx

I do not care for WT illustrations - that's putting it mildly. My feelings are those stated by other posters and an additional issue that I have with the imagery.

CoCo

blondie

I remember the picture of the boy on the bike and his dog descending into the crevasse in the old orange Paradise book. That always got us talking with my mom as to who was going to die at Armageddon. Since my father wasn't a jw and we lived amongst many nonjws, we wondered if our friends and neighbors and their dogs and children were going to die. It gave us nightmares.

Gregor

Yeah, they should just stick to the Bible. Lets see...

mutilating the genitals of dead bodies

people burned alive

people driving tent pegs through sleeping peoples heads

mobs stoning people to death

people being torn in half

acting out the sacrifice of your own child with a big butcher knife

throwing hookers out the window so dogs can eat her

offering your daughters for the sexual use of a mob that wants to b---f--- your guests.

and remember, these things were all done by the 'good' guys. Great bedtime stories!

Sirona

I remember the picture of Jesus on the stake. It almost fascinated me because at that time I'd only been used to seeing Jesus on a crucifix (I saw this picture at approx age 9 when not a JW, but of course again later when I joined at age 12).

What stuns me now is how graphic it is.

I don't think that children should be exposed to pictures or ideas about God killing people.

Sirona

BluesBrother

I can only say that it never affected me , having been exposed to that stuff from the age of five. Kids love scary fairy stories that have blood curdling themes

alt

I accept that others differ to me , but I felt the way that somebody has posted . If the WT stuff is around you all the time , it just seems natural . You know that worldy relatives and neighbours are not going to survive Armageddon, but that is just normal..Maybe that is the scary thought?

yknot

I can see the birds picking at the corpes now.

Sirona

Despite popular opinion, kids are able to distinguish fairy tales from reality. Therefore, listening to a story is just that for most kids - a story. Admittedly our imaginations ran wild, but our parents told us "its a story".

Compare that to the JWs who say - God will actually kill you if you are not "faithful"

Sirona

The scandalous effect of JW childrens literature. Why not investigated?

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