Everyone knows where to get the super secret mega neato kool aid edition study articles, right?
Have any of you asked your JW family why they started the kool-aid edition?
by serenitynow! 21 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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LostGeneration
Just a matter of time until they start asking the pubs to start printing off their own copy so momma can save a few more bucks for the move upstate.
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wannabefree
For those who haven't seen the "Kool-aid" (aka Study) edition, I found this link in an older post.
Skit on Conan O'Brien with 12ft tall JW's and huge Watchtower. Interesting that the Watchtower they replicated was a study edition, I wonder where they got that one!
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Beware of false prophets
wannabefree- Thanks so much for that link; that was hysterical!
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Mythbuster
"different shades of vomit"
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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unshackled
Thanks for the clarification everyone. And for the link brotherdan...look at that, downloadable koolaid. Looking thru the latest Watchtowers gives me the heebie jeebies.
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Vachi 8 He Is
I asked my aunt and she gave me the same BS reason: Not having to explain terminology, and jerkovah focusing on his people. I mean are they using some kinda of alien language? If it's about the terminology, since they like to release books why don't they release one called "JW Terminology" Put in there the definitions of 144,000, great crowd, Har-dee-har-harmegeddon and other shit they regurgitate over and over again. Really, I could pick up a magazine right now and read something along the lines of "What sort of person ought you to be?" "Keep walking upright in the eyes of jerkovah" (I refuse to call him by his supposed real name) "Let jesus sayings safeguard your heart" "Teach your children the importance of studying" or some other do-as-we-say kinda deal. What's to be explained again? Oh yeah, simple english? Bullshit! Just put the disclaimer up and be done with it:
There is nothing wrong with your eyes, do not attempt to put on glasses, we are now controlling the translation. We control what's holy and what's worldy. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next dozen years, we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and audacity which reaches from the governing body to the outer limits, please stand by (Us).
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Love it Vachi 8 He Is!
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agonus
Serenity, you're right. There is an element of secrecy to it whether the magazines are "freely" (nudge nudge wink wink) available to the public or not. The WT themselves have stated in print that part of the reason for the new "study edition" is to dispense "more pointed" information (their words, not mine). They wouldn't have said "more pointed information" if it was JUST about "terminology" outsiders wouldn't understand. Why even go to all the trouble of preparing two separate versions of the magazine if it's all about streamlining? It's a CYA thing in my opinion, so they can technically claim they have "nothing to hide" while being extremely weaselly in the way they go about their not-hidingness.
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