and children are made by un-skilled workers who enjoy their work..
The Children Book by Rutherford
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AnnOMaly
You can read the whole 'Children' discourse if you like, minimus. It's a real doozy.
Scroll to about two-thirds down and read from p. 286 'Children's Day' onwards.
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designs
I have a copy, my maternal grandparents signed it and gave it to me back in the early 50s.
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Terry
I became Jehovah's Witness in an analog world.
Older books of the Watchtower Society were shelf decorations.
Always the current releases were the big deal.
Who really ever took the time to sit down and study or read those Russell or Rutherford publications in depth?
They were curiousities.
But, what is profoundly interesting to me is this. "Food at the proper time" and "Meat in due season" meant SHELF LIFE.
Old stuff went bad.
This psychology allowed present day Witnesses to smile at wrong teaching and look at current teaching as progressive!
Nobody would ever stand up and declare: "What is this weird and scary crap the brothers were churning out?"
The family who indoctrinated me always found older publications a bit of a hoot. It never appeared as cautionary or creepy.....only charming.
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BluesBrother
The September 15, 1941 Watchtower......" in the remaining months before Armageddon"
I make that 848 months and still counting!
I was looking at the "Children " book before the meeting recently..keeping out of the way in the K H library. Sister Super-Dub came in and said that she had read that book once. She liked the way that it was written as between two young lovers..She told me (with a chuckle) that they did not marry at the end because Armageddon was so close....That was apparently very funny. This is the attitude among long time dubs. It is a huge joke that they were so misled before....I don't understand that.
This book has an ending not much less tragic than Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" They died quickly . This couple and those who followed the advice die a thousand deaths by virtue of a wasted life in service to publishing company.
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Chemical Emotions
Wow. I've never heard of this book, but it sounds horrible. And those old WTs too.
I bet a lot of JW kids felt pretty worthless back then.