I studied the The Paradise Book...

by teejay 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  cornish

  I remember so much studying that book at a very young age,those pictures stuck so vividly in my mind of the kid with the doll and the little doggie and the all that destruction and fear,I can remember an assembly speaker forcefully saying,'Children,Dont think you will survive Armageddon just because you are young.'
  But Fred Franz who had a lot to do with publications of that era when relying to the question ,would even the little children die at Armagedon said,'Nits become lice and little rats become big rats.

  That is the hard faced rationalizing behind this book.
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  LDH

  Just to clarify....

  it wasn't pink. It was SALMON. LOL. Things only a woman knows.

  Lisa
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  betweenworlds

  Yup, definately more towards the orange-ish end of the spectrum
  I remember many a time taking a piece of paper, setting it on the cover of that book and using a pencil to rub the image onto the paper.
  Anyone else ever do that?

  BW

  Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. Lord Acton 1834-1902
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  Jankyn

  Oh, yeah. The Paradise book. I showed that to my partner one time, as she still has her "Bible Stories for Children" book--it's got a kind and happy bearded Jesus, smiling children, and lots of lambs and things...

  She was appalled at the violence in that book--and suggested that it explains a lot about my taste in movies (I like the explosions and "Armageddon" type stuff--oh, I mean the Bruce Willis "Armageddon" by the way!).

  Jankyn
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  Flip

  When I'm reminded of that literary atrocity I can’t help thinking my parents were such idiots for letting them selves be duped by WTBTS promotion. Or was the WTBTS marketing that good at isolating the susceptible?

  Flip
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  plmkrzy

  Betweenworlds
  ya I use to do that, they don't make um like that anymore

  I remember having nightmares a lot about standing near
  people whos flesh was falling off their bones and if
  i got to close my flesh would start falling off my bones.
  For some reason that kept me from getting baptized over
  the years.
  Maybe I thought as long as I didn’t completely commit,
  it wouldn’t happen to me.
  Never could get that out of my mind.

  There aren't any horrified little faces in
  "add emotions to your message"
  Can someone please tell me how to get those little faces
  to transfer to the posts?
  I try clking on the little face, nothing happens.
  plm
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  Hairy Harr

  Good God...It was ORANGE. I had to go thru that thing several times. I can't remember exactly 'cause I was just a sprout...but, was that one of the ones they introduced at the '58 New York International. I wuz there...only 6 or 7 but it seems as if it came from there or shortly after. Anyone else there? Remember the food tents...with the old metal trays? Shit, I'm glad I've got therapy in a couple of days.
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  plmkrzy

  I Remember the food tents!!! Use to work at them when I was old enough to see over the tables and not get stepped on by the adults.
  I live in California an just before the Big assembly would come arround, The one that lasted 8 days, we would meet at grape vinyards with buckets and heavy gloves and pick grapes for days.If i remember right Bob Hope donated his vinyards. That was in the late 50's till sometime in the late 70's I think.
  plm OOps late 60's
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  Englishman

  Or as I heard Fred F say at London Twickenham international assembly:

  "Brothers, last night a sister approached me and asked 'Why are the sessions going on so late into the evening Brother Franz, it's so bad for my children having to miss out on their sleep?' I said, 'What do you want most, Sister, a tired child or a dead child?'"

  Unbelievably, the audience clapped loudly with approval. I didn't.

  Englishman.

  Bring on the dancing girls!
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  ballistic

  food tents - yeah I remember. Roast was laid on one year back in the early 80s at Twickenham. I was in the que behind an elders wife from our congregation and when the volunteer said "would you like stuffing sister?" she replied, "chance would be a fine thing!"