Is This Man Responsible For Many of Your Nightmares?

by cameo-d 12 Replies latest watchtower scandals

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  compound complex

  Would JWs see this as a conflict of interests or would it just not be of any importance where the Awake artwork came from?

  There are numerous examples of the Society's plagiarizing the work of other artists. Johnny Walker Red's sunset, Stern magazine's swimming nymphettes, So-and-So's Bible story characters, etc. The nature or origin of WT artwork - whether subliminal or plagiarized - is of little interest to most ex-JWs. I imagine an ardent JW would not see any issue. Personally, I feel WT artwork is manipulative, dishonest and scary on numerous fronts. But it is colorful.

  CoCo
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  compound complex

  What's Wrong With This Picture?

  The Watch Tower Society claims that its members are united spiritually despite ethnic and cultural diversity; they speak a "pure language." An Anglo-American religion, whose mother tongue is English, Jehovah's Witnesses see paradise - in saturated color - as though already "present." This modern-day "theocracy" is truly a gerontocracy - an organization governed by old men or elders. Take your pick.

  The cited article, by Joel Elliott, describes the iconography [pictorial material relating to a particular subject] of the Watchtower Society publications and its intended impact upon the viewer. Does Watchtower publications' art, combined with scriptural references of peace and unity among God's people, realistically portray life among Jehovah's Witnesses?

  http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html [The author expressed that his material should be neither quoted nor reproduced, hence the above is merely my perspective on what I have read.]

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/133995/1/How-the-Society-Portrays-Cultural-Diversity
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  StAnn

  My mother was studying the Armstrong home study course when the JDubs came to her door. One of the ways they convinced her that Armstrong was wrong was to tell her it was all about money and that when the 10th Armstrong lesson came that it would ask for a large donation. Sure enough, the 10th lesson came with a letter saying that Mom had received 10 lessons, couldn't she then give a 10th of her income to the WCG? She dropped Armstrong and went with the JDubs.

  Obviously, my mother had issues that attracted her to these kinds of groups. She was raised in a very strict Church of Christ group that wasn't all that far off from the JDubs in many ways.

  St. Ann