Bro. Lett (Governing Body) borrowed illustration from an outspoken WT critic (page 4)

baltar447

Hmm, that f*cker reminds me oh another crazy ass mofo:

SweetBabyCheezits

Wow, thanks ScenicViewer for the image comparison. Brings back memories.

LostGen: That woman is beautiful, I remember thinking as a kid reading the Bull$h!t story Book, "I get why the angels wanted to come down here and tap that."

LG, I had very similar thoughts. I remember being entranced by that particular image at a really young age. Who knew the Live Forever book contained fapping material? It's a veritable JW gateway to pornography.

That said, I can also remember thinking, "Man those Bible folks must notta realized it'd be a lot easier if they'd get naked to take a bath." Same goes for Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop in her nightgown. So inefficient.

steve2

You credit Lett with way too much independent thinking, even asserting he's accessed non-JW religious literature. You flatter way too much the man's resourcefulness. No, a dope is a dope is a dope. This is likely what happened:

Lett wouldn't have to have read any non-JW religious literature to get ideas for cross-fertilizing his analogies, would he? All he needed to have done was overhear another JW speaker use the Grand Canyon illustration and still another JW speaker "borrow" the parakeet story. Then his creative "moment" could have consisted of blending the two together and he would come up with his "own" analogy. Cross-ferilization of ideas, including metaphors and analogies happens all the times. Even Christ has been accused of blending metaphors from his own day into his parables.

LostGeneration

LG, I had very similar thoughts. I remember being entranced by that particular image at a really young age. Who knew the Live Forever book contained fapping material? It's a veritable JW gateway to pornography.

That said, I can also remember thinking, "Man those Bible folks must notta realized it'd be a lot easier if they'd get naked to take a bath." Same goes for Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop in her nightgown. So inefficient.

Its just plain creepy and weird how the WTS exposes kids to these bible sex stories while they are so young. I mean between the references to oral and anal sex, the story of angels coming down to get with hotties on earth, and that other crazy story where the men are trying to rape the angel-men visiting Lot (a funny thread from way back here: http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/56816/1/Lot-one-of-the-founders-of-the-pedophile-paradise its no wonder tons of JWs have been messed up when it comes to their sexuality.

Leolaia

Here is Ankerberg's version of the illustration:

" Picture a parakeet in your backyard next to a sandbox. You take a pail, fill it full of sand, and then let some of the grains of sand fall through your hands. One bucket of sand has thousands of grains of sand. Let’s imagine that you could instruct that parakeet to pick up one of the grains of sand in its beak, fly to the moon and drop it off. Let’s say it takes one million years for the parakeet to get to the moon. He puts the grain of sand down and flies back to earth. It takes a million years for him to get back. He then picks up the next grain of sand and flies back to the moon. He drops off that grain and flies back to earth—a million years there, a million years back. One by one the parakeet takes each grain of sand in your sandbox to the moon. When he is finished, you take him down to Key West, Florida and there you show him the Atlantic Ocean and the beach which runs along the coast. You tell him, "I want you to start clearing off the sand on this beach one grain at a time." He starts there, then works his way up to Miami, then to Jacksonville, Hilton Head, Charleston, New York City, Boston, and up toward Maine. He takes each grain of sand to the moon one at a time, a million years there, a million years back. When he’s done with all of that, you take him out to the West Coast and from Mexico all the way up to California and Oregon, you tell him to take one grain of sand at a time and fly it to the moon. When the parakeet finishes with all of that, you say, I’ve got this other little spot called the Sahara Desert. I want you to clear the sand off of that place one at a time." When he finishes that, you say, "Three-fourths of the surface of the earth is water. Let me drain the oceans dry. At the bottom of the oceans you have a lot of sand. Take all of that sand to the moon, one grain of sand at a time, a million years there, and a million years back." When he finishes, if you could add up all of the millions of years it had taken to remove all of the sand from all of those places, eternity would just be beginning."
http://www.jashow.org/Articles/practical-christianity/PC0101W1.htm

The question for me is whether Ankerberg invented this illustration, or picked it up from others. If so, then it is possible that Lett did so as well.

SadElder

....and he laughs at his own jokes quite amused with himself.

I've used many "secular" books to lift nice stories and illustrations. "Hot illustrations for youth talks" was one, and there were a couple other similar titles. Some years ago there was a CD put out by a brother in California I believe that had a great collection of illustrations. I still have the CD but it won't run on my 64 bit Win7.

I remember some of the brothers in my cong. being quite jealous that I could always come up with something to put in my talks to liven up some of the dried up stuff we had to serve.

notjustyet

JW Gonebad wrote,

His mouth is waaay to big for his face. He'd make a good clown!

_________

Did you say "He'd make a good clown!" as in future tense?

I think he might be a good clown now. lol

the youtube video is now private. bwahhhhh!

If Jesus had a live sermon up on YouTube, do you think it would be private, ever?

-Sab

Bro. Lett (Governing Body) borrowed illustration from an outspoken WT critic