Two pet peeves of mine

by Sour Grapes 20 Replies latest jw friends

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  Sour Grapes

  There are two things that just drive me crazy. One is that the art work in the Watchtower is treated like they are actual still photo's taken thousands of years ago. Your will hear comments about look at the smiles on their faces or the sadnees or happiness in their eyes, or notice the reaction of the crowd, etc. Then you have artwork for the future paradise where they could spend an hour with the types of food on the picnic tables, or what animals are playing together, or what nationalities are shown. There is always a running stream with a house on the hill side and people who look like they are over dressed. What is never shown is the inside of the pretty houses on the hill side and where is the elephant pooper scooper hiding.

  My second pet peeve is how the speakers will refer to the Watchtower like you are looking up a scripture in the Bible. "The January 15, 1998 Watchtower on page 15 paragraph 12 says:" In fact, the Watchtower usually has a stronger position than the Bible at most meetings.

  Sour Grapes
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  sparrowdown

  What used to get me was in those pictures of paradise the people would be wearing stuff like

  jeans and trainers and polo shirts straight out of a target catalogue. So obviously Jehovah saves

  all the department stores and chinese sweat shops. Dumb-asses!
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  sir82

  I'm always thinking, when I look at those paradise pictures with the overflowing picnic tables....what if you don't like fruit?
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  OneEyedJoe

  THANK YOU! I hate how people at the WT study act as if something being illustrated makes it fact. Like when they do a comic strip style sequence depicting what will happen if you do what the cult wants you to do vs what a normal person would do. Some idiot invariably makes a comment like "if you look at the picture on page 13 you can see that when you follow the WT's guidance on this things turn out much better than when you follow the 'wisdom of the world'"

  The first time I noticed this happening I was shocked at how superficially it was - when did simply drawing a picture of something and asserting it as fact replace a well-reasoned argument?
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  prologos

  By listening to such comments, the enforcers can tell those that are fully indoctrinated with wt-think, like children believing in little red riding hood, the big bad talking wolf, dino the dino, the talking snake,
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  Muddy Waters

  "... And we can see from this picture on page (whatever), that worldly people always wear headbands when they want to riot or incite a riot."

  *cracking up* !!

  Guess what?!? I have taken to wearing headbands now, lol, and I love them! Bwhahahaha!!
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  sparrowdown

  Evil riot people always have messy hair as well.
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  Muddy Waters

  Yes, and they carry clubs, too! Even modern day revilers! You can surely see this is evidence of their Satanic thinking. Headbands. Snarls. Raised fists, or clubs, lol. with maybe a drunk person lying on the ground, usually female. And maybe a Ouija board.

  Do you see? Do you see how real this picture is? Do you see how it perfectly represents reality? Do you see from this picture that this is the way things are?

  Geez. What goons. Goons running a pretty good scam, though. :(
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  Sour Grapes

  I remember that years ago an old timer who conducted the Watchtower would actually from the platform analyze the size and color of the font of the title for the article. Everything had a hidden message or meaning like the symbolic gnat's eyelash.
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  sparrowdown

  In the staged photos householders or weak bro's are wearing casual clothes while spiritually strong ones are wearing a suit and tie.

  It's a wonder they don't show thieves wearing stripey pyjamas and a black eye band.