Of course Cedars, we're just giving you some good natured ribbing!
Actually it was frighteningly funny!!!
The Society is to be commended...
by cedars 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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cedars
Thanks 00DAD! In all seriousness, the 2011 yearbook cover was truly dreadful. It's amazing how you only notice these little things once your eyes are fully opened.
Wasn't there a post not so long ago with an article by a guy who visited Brooklyn bethel in the 80s and found the art department in complete disarray? It sounds like very little has changed. I can't imagine producing that front cover and proudly presenting it to my superior for publication. Surely they had better material to work with than a murky polaroid of a dude carrying a blackboard on his back through the jungle.
Cedars
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00DAD
Cedars: It's amazing how you only notice these little things once your eyes are fully opened.
With all due respect I disagree. I think we all (or at least a lot of us) noticed them before but were afraid to say so!
The Emperor is not only naked, he's fat and ugly too!!!
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Just horrible copy through and through. The WTS seems to believe their own stereotypes about people all over the world and how they live. An African scene will show a thatched hut somewhere in the background with shirtless locals to fill in the scene. Never will it be some apartment block in urban Nigeria, which is the scene you are more likely to encounter. You'll see a still from Crocodile Dundee before you'll see an Aussie suburb. The Estonia pic is particularly insulting, both to the modern day inhabitants and to anyone who's been there recently. The peasant woman with the headscarf is a direct homage to the former Soviet Union, of which modern Estonia resembles very little of. What next? Witnesses hiking up some rocky and windswept outcropping and speaking to men in kilts? It all fits in perfectly with the world viewpoint from HQ. Stick a few foreign faces in there, preferably poor, conveniently brown, and it's proof that the JWs are not in fact the curiously 19th century American religion that they are. The WTS would actually do themselves some good by consulting with an advertising agency when compiling publications such as this. Whatever they are printing, it's just not selling anymore.
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steve2
On my wish list: A photo in the yearbook of 2 smartly-dressed, goodlooking, cleancut JW adult males (an achievement in itself) talking real close and personal with New World Translation in hand to a couple of toothless, scarily grinning southern Apalachian men who are "eager" to soak in the kingdom message.
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Sic Semper Tyrannis
Or Business-Witnessing on a Southern California pornography set.
"Umm, will I be able to keep my boobs after Armageddon?"
Good question. Will Jehovah allow women with implants to keep them in the new system? Will someone write the Society about that and post the reply here?
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sabastious
HAHAH! Very funny
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