Your favorite and least liked society publication?

by Celtic 38 Replies latest jw friends

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  Thirdson

  I hated all the prophetic books, Man's Salvation etc. The Revelation Climax book and the Greatest Man books were done to death and they just became tedious. The Greatest Man book could have been good but there is far too much sole-JW interpretation. The Revelation Book I thought was poor and when I believed most of the stuff. I couldn't get the 7 angelic trumpet blasts as being resolutions at 1920's Bible Student conventions when I conducted the study! The worse thing in the Rev Climax book was the admittance that Russell got 1914 wrong based on counting a year zero and they found they had to adjust the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians to 607 BCE from 606 BCE. I thought that was fishy when I was a faithful dub...made it kinda easy to realise WTS dating was all screwy later on.

  Favorite book, I liked the Creation book, but for the wrong reasons. I studied more and went back to college part-time after my interest in life-sciences was aroused. Ended up with a slightly different view to what the Creation book teaches.

  Thirdson

  'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing'
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  Moxy

  may i choose the semi-official Faith on the March as my favourite?

  my least favourite might actually be the Require brochure, more because of how it was positioned than specifically for its content. this has a heavily simplified, child-like study brochure. but it has quickly became the main study publication, COs marvelling to the pioneers and publishers about how every word, every picture, conveyed a wealth and depth of insight and was practically inspired. i often used my service meeting parts to point out how many situations for which the brochure was innappropriate.

  mox
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  Mindchild

  For my favorite it's a toss-up between the old Paradise Lost Paradise Regained book because it had neat pictures in it and I liked these when I was a kid. For later years, the only book I thought was somewhat interesting was The Aid To Bible Understanding because it had a few non-doctrinal bits and pieces that were somewhat interesting...like how they used to make engines of war back in the ancient times.

  For my least favorite book...the friggen Song Books, as I hated to be around people that had less than no musical talent at all and listen to them carry on at the top of their lungs with pig squeals and dog barking.

  Skipper
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  Farkel

  : Did you have a favourite publication? What was it,and why?
  What was your least liked publication? What was it, and why?

  My favorite WTS publication is:

  My least favorite WTS publication is:

  All the rest. When I again ever need shit for reading pleasure, I will re-evaluate my position. Until then, don't hold your breath.

  Farkel

  "When in doubt, duck!"
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  GinnyTosken

  My favorite Society publication is Learn to Read and Write. The copy I have was printed in 1967. Just sample the suspense:

  What were Ann and Dan doing out at night unchaperoned? Why did they see stars? Did Ann bop Dan on the noggin when his hand roamed in search of twin gazelles? Did Dan hope to soothe Ann with dinner and have her as one of the inter-courses?

  The plot thickens:

  Hmmmm . . . Dan desires dinner but apparently hasn't gotten any yet. And who is this Don dentist guy? A worldly rival for Ann's attentions?

  The subliminal message is that Dan is a simple, earthy man:

  Like Adam, he is lonely and wants only to make a cozy nest with the woman he loves, doing what is proper by signing a marriage certificate in ink, and only then letting loose his lusty bullish desires, even while he shields his beloved under his husbandly umbrella.

  My least favorite books are any of those thick ones from the 1970's, such as the sickish green Man's Salvation Out of World Distress at Hand!. Boring! And you had to wait through months of study to get to one of maybe four pictures in the whole book.

  Ginny
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  professor

  My favorite: the James book. I loved it even before I knew it was written by an apostate.

  Least Favorite: The Watchtower. So much nonsense taking up so much of my time!
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  OUTLAW

  I don`t like any of them.They all promote bullshit...OUTLAW
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  ISP

  I like a lot of the 'older' publications because of the quotations you can draw from that highlight inconsistences etc.

  ISP
  BTW 'Older' can mean anything over a month old.
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  professor

  OMG! GinnyTosken! I forgot that publication even existed. I am getting scarry flashbacks. I was born in 1969 and I remember looking at that book!
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  gambler

  my favorite is the elders manual becaues it shows how petty, childish and unloving they are.