by dinah 36 Replies latest jw friends
The cover asks "Is there life beyond the grave"
They have a quote from Forrest Gump (of course he wasn't mentioned by name but I've seen the movie a million times). It says roughly: In a movie a young man is shown standing by his mother's grave. "Momma always said dyin' was a part of livin'" then he add "I sure wish it wasn't."
This is just sad...
The WTS has had to stoop to the mental level of Forrest Gump to try to get people's interest up about life after death...
Run, Forrest, run...
I posted this on Mochat too...
Dinah that is too funny!!!!
Soooooo I wonder if the next article will follow up and tell us what happened to Jennnay?
LOL...."Jen nay, became a bird and flew far far away from here..."
or "What can young boys do to get their minds off masturbation?" "They can go Runnnning..."
Actually that story about the brother looking for a part-time job to support himself was beyond sad.
Actually the whole magazine was filled with unbelievable stories.
I thought it was going to be: "Stupid is as stupid does!"
That's going to be a 2009 release at the District Convention.
I swear to you that the bogus NASA story about how they figured out the position of the sun and moon and that a day or so were missing was actually published in the Awake way back when (I think late 60s or so).
The irony of this was that I had seen it before - it was presented to me in high school physics as a classic example of religious pseudo-science. It should be obvious to anybody who has an elementary knowledge of astonomy that there is no way to infer the "missing of a day" to the present-day "positions of the sun and moon".
So, IMHO, the Awake people did not get this jewel from some real witness, it was already urban legend made up by some unknown fundy (or maybe some real scientist as a joke) and the Celebrated Awake Editors could not identify a POS for what it was.
Another blast from the past that I really enjoyed was a 1960s era article in Awake that was blasting the "Muscle Car Craze". One memorable line was the warning that X amount of gasoline was just like Y sticks of dynamite under your foot - blah blah blah...
Dinah,
I'm surprised that magazine didn't spontaneously combust when it touched your hands.
BB, thank god I waited until I got home to read it. I laughed LOUD.
I guess making a reference to a 14 year-old movie is what qualifies as being "hip" and "with it" in the Writing Dept. LOL
Couldn't the Forrest Gump screenplay writers sue the WTBS for quoting their script without any attribution whatsoever? It always pissed my off that they never gave sources for so many quotes. Obviously, journalistic integrity doesn't matter much to the writing department.
I remember one of the magazines quoted the Beatles of all people...
It was an article on tobacco and/or smoking, maybe quiting smoking and it quoted the line from the Lennon song, "I'm So Tired" where he sings about getting another cigarette and "curse Sir Walter Raleigh..."
But they left out the rest of the line, "...he was such a stupid git"
