by Awake-to-deceit 14 Replies latest watchtower scandals
Can someone please explain what the image on the last page of AWAKE represents please? Three interlocked rings with three points that make a triangle shape when joined.
Does not three linked circles symbolise The Trinity?
I can't find any information about this on the internet, hiding in plain sight? Discuss please.
Which issue of Awake! are you talking about??
If you're referring to the semi-regular Was it Designed? item, it's a stylised atom as an analog for the concept of design. It most closely resembles a lithium atom.
In any case, they aren't Borromean rings, which by definition interlink in a particular way. There is insufficient detail in the stylised image to represent the interlinks required for Borromean rings.
Hi Jeffro
That's it!
I believe it signifies the trinity/occult, I don't know how long the term 'stylised atom' has been around, I'm pretty sure Borromean Rings pre-date this modern application and that they can have multiple forms of parametrization.
Awake-to-deceit:
I believe it signifies the trinity/occult, I don't know how long the term 'stylised atom' has been around, I'm pretty sure Borromean Rings pre-date this modern application and that they can have multiple forms of parametrization.
You're welcome to believe whatever you like, but there isn't some 'special' reference to the 'Trinity' (or the 'occult') every time there happens to be three of something. The three dots and rings represent the three electrons of a lithium atom and their associated orbits, as depicted in the Rutherford model.
"Stylised atom" is not a 'special term'. Stylised means what it means, and atom means what it means. Atoms are too small to actually see, so all depictions of atoms are technically stylised, but in this case it is stylised in a manner similar to many logos and other insignia to convey a concept in a non-technical manner. The lithium atom is frequently used to represent atoms in this way because it is more readily identifiable as an atom than simpler hydrogen (one ring) or helium (two rings) representations, without being unduly complex.
Borromean rings by definition are interlinked in such a way that all three rings are linked, but removing any one ring results in two remaining unlinked rings.
Awake-to-deceit:
I believe it signifies the trinity/occult
So, which is it?
Over a billion people nominally believe in the 'Trinity', so it's hardly a secret or 'occult'. But JWs don't believe in the 'Trinity', so it would be rather pointless for them to 'covertly' suggest otherwise.
It's just a logo for a magazine segment that touches on science (rather poorly). Move along. Nothing to see here.
I have not seen the original, but perhaps it is signal to
RECYCLE on sight.
Ummm, trinity is three, not four.
Technically they are not even rings ;)
