Occult pictures in JW books?

by happy man 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  Tallyman

  Happy Man,

  Years ago, I received an advance copy of Barefoot's book,
  and it contained loads of images, some of which he did not use
  when the book went to press.

  Yeah, the Watchtower CultMasters AXED the guy and his family
  for trying to alert them to a "problem"...

  Same kind of thing happened here in Raleigh, North Carolina
  about 10 years ago. A brother named Jay Hess was trying to "help"
  the Watchtower Society, by privately publishing a little booklet,
  titled: "Why jehovah's Witnesses are Not false prophets"...
  and it was being passed around the Raleigh area, and used with
  "success" by those faithful jehovahs who shared the booklet with
  their bible studies, unbelieving relatives, opposers, etc...,
  until word leaked up to Brooklyn
  and the Crooklyn Crew sent a Hit Squad down to Raleigh
  and Jay Hess was disfellowshipped for his efforts to "help".

  A 'domino effect' took place, and I was third in line to be
  kicked out of the Kingdom Kult Klub by being outspoken
  and saying that the Watchtower had TRASHED an honorable man's
  character, reputation and good name.

  Back to Barefoot - the debate still rages about are the images
  altered/modified to contain subliminal messages and what not...
  but why look for hidden Schtuff when the obvious is so OBVIOUS?

  * http://www.intrex.net/tallyman/WT_Evil.html

  One does not have to look far for Evil, if they look at the Watchtower.

  LOve, Tallyman
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  NeonMadman

  As others have noted, some of the "hidden" images in the literature take a lot of imagination to see, but others, especially some of the earliest ones are very clear and obvious. The rumor at the time that these things were first being noticed was that some artist at Bethel had been caught inserting these things, and that he had been removed from Bethel and disfellowshipped. Frankly, if the Society had come out with that sort of explanation, I would have been far less impacted by this issue than I was.

  Instead, their reaction was to deny that any such thing had happened, and, worse, to insist that there were no images at all. Well, as I've said, clearly at least some of the images were undoubtedly there. I saw them, everyone I showed them to, including some elders, saw them. For the Society to utterly deny that there were any images at all demonstrated to me, unequivocally, and for the first time, that the Society will directly and deliberately lie to cover its own public image. That stunned me, and left no question in my mind that the Watchtower is not what it claims to be.

  Who knows? If they had come up with a reasonable explanation rather than stonewalling, I might still be going to the kingdom Hall today...

  Naaahhhhh.....

  Tom
  

  "The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure; to live it you had to explode." ---Bob Dylan
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  Tallyman

  For the Society to utterly deny that there were any images at all demonstrated to me, unequivocally, and for the first time, that the Society will directly and deliberately lie to cover its own public image. That stunned me, and left no question in my mind that the Watchtower is not what it claims to be.

  Who knows? If they had come up with a reasonable explanation rather than stonewalling, I might still be going to the kingdom Hall today...

  Naaahhhhh.....

  
  Tom,

  Good observations.

  I would go farther and say and I have been saying that the WTS
  would Do ANYTHING to protect their vested interests. ANYTHING.

  They are truly Evil.

  They are DANGEROUS people, folks.

  Tallyman
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  willy_think

  *church lady asks*
  "what is the JW woman in willy_thinks pic invoking,
  could it be Satan"?

  The Great and Powerful Oz:
  

  pay no attention to the man behind the curtain