Beyond the Rainbow!

by Smoldering Wick 25 Replies latest jw friends

  • Smoldering Wick
    Smoldering Wick

    w66 10/15 627 -Perhaps the first blessing was to hear music and songs from the new songbook, "Singing and Accompanying Yourselves with Music in Your Hearts." The brilliant color of the songbook created an appearance of a sea of purple flickering flowers. At many conventions, expressions of delight and applause followed song after song!

    *yb74 235 -...we received our Truth books...Because of its effect and its blue color the book was soon dubbed "the blue bomb" by many.

    *w87 10/1 32 - Earlier this year, the following letter was received from a mother: "This subscription is for our two-year-old son. During the Watchtower Study, he must have his own copy. I've tried to give him another one when we didn't have an extra copy, but he would notice that the pictures didn't match, and he wanted the issue we were using. I'm sure the beautiful color pictures impress even a young child and will help his early appreciation of the spiritual food he can't understand as yet."
    Why not make sure that each of your children has a personal subscription for The Watchtower? Receive a subscription for a year by filling in and mailing the accompanying coupon, along with $5.

    *km 12/78 1-2 - One elder stated: "How thrilling it is that the Society can now produce a book that is so visually appealing for our young ones! This splendid publication, with magnificent color pictures on almost every page"

    yb87 165 - A BOOK IN THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE
    In the midst of the war years, a thrilling convention was held in Zurich in 1942. On Sunday morning the front rows of the convention hall were full of glowing young faces! This was to be a special event for them. In a talk addressing them in particular, they were reminded to be diligent, obliging, helpful and kind, and above all, to obey their parents in accord with the Bible's counsel. At the end of this lecture, the book Children was released, and every one of those young folks was to receive a free copy.
    Brothers stepped to the platform, each one with a supply of books in nine different hues. Then all the children were invited to walk across the platform, and each one received a book in the color of his choice. What a joy that was for the children! More than 400 books were thus placed in the hands of prospective Witnesses. Quite a number of those children became zealous workers and are still active in Jehovah's organization.

  • Smoldering Wick
    Smoldering Wick

    Who said the Watchtower Magazine never Advertised? Are these Advertisments? Multiple product purchase discounts, bundle packages and coupons? egads

    *w54 1/1 32 - Also for 25 cents, or five or more to one address at 20 cents each, you may obtain the beautiful 1954 color calendar.

    *w84 3/1 32 - We believe that you and your family will also benefit from the wholesome instruction in these publications. Each is hardbound; the Youth book and the Family book each has 192 pages. My Book of Bible Stories has 256 pages, the same page size as this magazine, and it is filled with over 125 large illustrations, most in beautiful color. Receive all three publications for only $4.
    Please send me, postpaid, My Book of Bible Stories, Your Youth-Getting the Best out of It and Making Your Family Life Happy. I enclose $4 (U.S.).

    *w87 8/15 32 - Are there children you know who also would enjoy My Book of Bible Stories? You can receive a copy by filling in and mailing the accompanying coupon. The book has 256 pages, the same page size as this magazine. It has over 125 large illustrations, most of them in beautiful color.
    Please send me, postpaid, the hardbound book My Book of Bible Stories, for which I enclose $2.50 (U.S.).

  • LDH
    LDH

    JWS and the PURPLE TRIANGLE!!!

    SW, we are the only ones with an incredibly funny sense of humor I guess.

    They must be colorblind, LOL.

  • Smoldering Wick
    Smoldering Wick

    Lisa, you're hilarious!! ROFLLLLLLL!!!

    Here's something that was presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion / Religious Research Association

    ...looks like we weren't the only ones interested in JW religious visual aids.

    You Can Live Forever on a Paradise Earth
    The Visual Rhetoric of Jehovah's Witness Iconography
    by Joel Elliott

    NOTE: This essay is based on a slide-show presentation I delivered in November, 1995, at the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion / Religious Research Association, in St. Louis, MO. This is work-in-progress, and I would love to hear your responses to this essay.

    http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/icon.html

  • LDH
    LDH

    * http://www.highlightskids.com/guestarea/GoofusandGallant/h1intro.asp

    For WBTS style hilarity, click on the above link! (Especially if you are *NOT* familiar with Goofus and Gallant.

    SW, that is the most beautiful picture of the slaughter of 99% of the earth's inhabitants I have *ever* seen. LOL! The crimsons! The brick! The burnt umber!

    MMMMMM! Makes me think of the earth, crispy fried!

    Lisa
    Note to self: don't refer to other magazines because they never read them class.

  • terafera
    terafera

    MOMMY-
    " When the Isrealites were led out of Egypt, well before they
    actually left. To hear the gut wrenching screams coming from the woman, and men...wonderful noises
    to go to sleep to. I could go on and on about the fear that is instilled in the hearts of young children,
    and adults to tighten the reins a bit, but I won't.
    wendy"

    THANK YOU! I remember going to bed with the tapes playing...our parents thought it was so peaceful to sleep listening to the Bible Stories! They scared the CRRAP out of me. You would hear screaming, people dying... I was so terrified listening to them. I remember the Flood story.. you could hear people drowning and begging to get in the Ark. It gives me shivers thinking about it.

  • LDH
    LDH

    SW our comedic brillance has gone unnoticed!

    For more Goofus and Gallant type humor, click on the link below. You will see that JWs are not the only religious fundamentalists to use color and simpleton drawings to convey their 'message' of doom and gloom cloaked in an offer of personal salvation.

    If you act now, as an added bonus you can see a drawing of a stereotypical black pimp drug pusher in this cartoon link!
    * http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5008/5008_01.asp

    Yes, that's right! It's a CHICK TRACT!!!!

    Lisa
    Colorful Class

  • DanielHaase
    DanielHaase

    Man, this shit is demonic :)

    "Brother, you better get down on your knees and pay...a thousand more fools are being born every f***ing day" -Bad Religion
  • peaceloveharmony
    peaceloveharmony

    lisa, that chick track omg! brings back memories of these books i'd read as a teenager about hookers and druggies finally finding god and getting help. crazy! (my mom found out what these books contained and told me i couldn't read them anymore!)

  • LDH
    LDH

    At least with the Chick Tracts, they have the balls to outright *sell* them now, instead of asking for *donations.*

    PLH what is up with that--push your literature off on the whole world but God forbid you see anything with a differing viewpoint! [8>]

    Lisa

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