My mum gave a Worldly ladies kids a "Bible Stories" book as a gift, the woman was pleased...2 weeks later the angry woman returned the book claiming it was too violent and upsetting for her kids. Even though I was brought up on that book, looking at it now with the drownings at the flood, Jesus pinned to a post, a chapter with a picture of a guy on the ground with a nail thru his temple I have to say......IT IS too violent and upsetting for kids...just in pictures alone! What do you think?
Angry woman returns "My Book of bible stories"...Too violent for her Children? Is this true?
by Witness 007 7 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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mP
the whole bible is extremely violent. nearly every hero is a homocidal maniac. none are ever kind. saddest thing many ppl pretend its the good book, and its not. given these facts its going to be very hard to compile any kid safe stories.
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biometrics
You mean like this (skip to 2:50):
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glenster
TV-Y7?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtYMs8JENqg
http://www.watchtower.org/e/my/section_00.htmRatings
TV-Y (All ages 2 and older)[1]
Whether animated or live-action, the themes and elements in this program are
specifically designed for a very young audience, including children from ages
2–6. These programs are not expected to frighten younger children.TV-Y7 (Directed to children 7 and older)
Shows with this rating may or may not be appropriate for some children under the
age of seven. They may contain crude or suggestive humor, mild fantasy violence,
or content considered too frightening to be shown to children less than seven
years of age.TV-Y7-FV (Directed to children 7 and older with fantasy violence in shows)
When a show has noticeably more fantasy violence than a program rated TV-Y7, it
is assigned the TV-Y7-FV rating. Action-adventure shows may carry this rating.
Most Japanese anime shows dubbed and aimed at children in the United States are
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unless otherwise noted. Programming directed at pre-teens and teens on Nickelo-
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show contained comic violence or animated smoking that was suitable for family
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This rating signifies that the program may be unsuitable for children under the
age of 9 without the guidance and monitoring of a parent. Many parents may want
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This rating was originally named TV-M in early 1997, but was changed because of
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violence, strong profanity, overtly sexual dialogue, nudity, and/or strong
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air on cable and satellite television; network television rarely airs any
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cast television. The film Schindler's List was the first film broadcast on net-
work television to display this rating, and the pilot episode of the CBS police
drama Brooklyn South was the first series on network TV to display the rating.
Original programming airing in the late evening on some cable networks will
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D unofficially used by some networks such as Syfy Channel and Showtime
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V graphic violenceThe implications of these ratings, particularly the TV-MA rating, vary greatly depending on the situation. For example, South Park, which airs on Comedy Central, generally contains explicit language, so it carries a TV-MA rating; syndicated versions of South Park, however, are heavily censored and cut, and employ a TV-14 rating instead. Other TV-MA programs on Comedy Central have no restrictions on language. Language may still be censored by a network or air completely unfiltered, depending on such factors as creative network choices or the need to appeal to advertisers leery of placing spots on a TV-MA program. Adult Swim shows are rated TV-MA for racism and strong sexual humor. Other shows that are frequently rated TV-MA include original series on the FX cable network, as well as original programming on premium television services such as Showtime and HBO. A blanket "TV-MA" rating is also usually given to softcore pornographic films or TV series airing on channels such as Cinemax and most of the Showtime networks, due to full-frontal nudity and the depiction of simulated sexual intercourse.
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Classic Movies and among others, may receive a TV-MA rating depending on their
content and general theme of the programing. For example: the PG rated film
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tornapart
When I was a kid we used to have the orange 'Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained'. There were a lot of pictures depicting violence in there and I used to be fascinated in a morbid kind of way. It didn't really harm me and I've grown to be a very gentle person. I think children are faced with seeing violence all the time especially on tv (like the news). My own children grew up with the My Book of Bible Stories and it hasn't harmed them either. Also this book needn't be given to very small children, my little granddaughter (being brought up as JW) has been bought a 'wordly' bible story book by her parents, very beautiful, very simple and entirely suitable for her toddler years.
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Hermano
LMAOF @ biometrics youtube post. That video was spot on. Brought back memories of me following the fan blades with my eyes during the watchtower study to aleviate the boredom. Or scribbling in My Book of Bible Stories.
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blondie
No Bible story book in my day, had to read the stories straight from the bible (that was still scary, I had to ask what a foreskin was when David took coup on the Philistines). We had the orange Paradise book which made my brother and I wonder if we were going to drop down a crevasse with our dog and bikes.
(1 Samuel 18:25-29) . . .At that Saul said: “This is what YOU men will say to David, ‘The king has delight, not in marriage money, but in a hundred foreskins of the Phi?lis′tines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.’” But as for Saul, he had schemed to have David fall by the hand of the Phi?lis′tines. 26 So his servants reported these words to David, and the matter was to David’s liking, to form a marriage alliance with the king, and the days had not yet expired. 27 So David rose and he and his men went and struck down among the Phi?lis′tines two hundred men, and David came bringing their foreskins and giving them in full number to the king, to form a marriage alliance with the king. In turn Saul gave him Mi′chal his daughter as a wife. 28 And Saul got to see and know that Jehovah was with David. As for Mi′chal, Saul’s daughter, she loved him. 29 And again Saul felt still more fear because of David, and Saul came to be an enemy of David always.
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00DAD
Fear, it's how to control people. It's worked from the beginning and it's still working now!