by Calebs Airplane 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
My parents used to let us watch this series growing up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEi5OEk53h8&list=PLSg87pNP-RjU50MEPtCed92tlyyYM7WiR
... until one day they noticed it was actually a production from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America...
then, it became prohibited.... the only explanation they provided us thereafter was that this cartoon was made by Satan and his demons.
We got to watch everything. My parents were spiritually weak. They've gone über dub in their old age now.
I remember watching Davey and Goliath, Calebs Airplane! Talk about bringing back memories.
Our local TV station's broadcast of this show was just after we got home from the Sunday talk/WT (back "in the day" when Sunday meetings were SOOOOOO long) - what convenient timing
Yeah, talk about a "hey....it used to be OK to watch this, why can't we NOW?" moment. Fine - whether it be this or anything else that was "suddenly Satanic", I merely went off and read books I wasn't supposed to be reading...
~ RTA
I remember watching it. It must have been reruns.
My mom was really tough about Tv programs too. No scooby, casper, smurfs, bewitched....this one must have skipped her notice.
We watched it...but I was the one that went to lutheran, catholic, mormon churches. I remember some jw parents of kids I hung out with had R-rated movies hidden away. They were so "careful" what their children watched (they knew where the stash was) and "careful" to monitor other people and their children in the congregation.
D&G reminded me of Gumby and Pokey.
Most cartoons were shown Saturday morning in my young days and no VCRs.
I could watch the show. Before the show, my mom made us read it in Highlights mag. She had to help us read it. As I grew, I became a bit proGoliath. I was fed up with Davey being always right, month after month and year after year. If my father ever found out that it was a Babylon the Great production, we would have had to hide. It would be my last Highlight mag.
Davey was as big as Dick and Jane. I have the funniest Dick and Jane parody. There are Davey parodies. I so much wanted to tell my slightly younger brother that Goliad deserved better but he might repeat it to adults.
Those were the days. Sunday afternoon meetings at 3 PM. Dad and Mom slept in late on Sunday because they worked late on Sat. night. It was me and the TV and Davyyyyyyvey. LOL It was about being good and makiing God happy. You know demon thinking. Totally ADD
Blondie wrote:
D&G reminded me of Gumby and Pokey.
Actually the producers of Gumby had so much success with this character that they created Davey and Goliath.
By the way, I remember how Bible-based animations in general were severely criticized by J-Dubs in the 70's because these were allegedly designed to brainwash children... Anyone else had similar experiences? Yet, 45 years after Davey & Goliath, the Watchtower produces an animated DVD with a completely idiotic message about Jehovah hating a plastic toy.
People with TV were weak in the faith in the 60s in NZ. If D&G ever made it here, we were not the type of Dub that would ever watch that sort of thing. We were so Superdub that the Superdubs were threatened by our presence.
We weren't allowed much tv in general, in fact we didn't get a tv until the mid 60s. But my mom wasn't too concerned about most programs. We watched Davy on occasion, (and Gumby & Pokey) and Bewitched. We weren't allowed to watch Twilight Zone, but I think it was more because my mom saw it as scary for us, nothing to do with religion, really. Her big thing was if they focused the camera on an actor's face she tell us not to look directly at their eyes because we'd get hypnotized.
