by Ron.W. 27 Replies latest watchtower bible
road to nowhere: "should there be an abacus in your pocket?"
You won't believe this:
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101979890&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101986887&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101976250&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
https://wol.jw.org/wol/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=101971844&q=abacus+&p=doc&srcid=sch&srctype=jwo
That article well and truly belongs in the past. It was the sort of thing we giggled at and ignored at the time. Mind you it does make a fair point about the loss of one’s mental arithmetic ability. As a young man I could add up a list of figures in my head quite happily. Now ? …… no chance.
Someone at the WTS was pretty suspicious about technology, it seems!
Maybe it was the same person who kept warning us about the dangers of the internet, back in the 1990s and early 2000s.
back in the early 70s--i bought my devout dub wife a basic calculator for her wedding anniversary present. It was one that plugged into a mains converter. She wasnt best pleased Lol. Cost me about £50 .
I wonder if the Awake! article's writer preferred using those booklets they used to issue in high school that contained logarithmic and trigonometric tables. A few years later, I was using a cheap Casio scientific calculator instead. Within a few years of that article, a calculator went from "expensive" and "toy" to useful and cheap.
Is a calculator in your pocket going to lead to unclean thoughts?:
https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/4547398681493504/going-say-word
Vibrating pocket calculators may be what they were referring to?
LongHairGal - “…Now, they can hardly keep people in the religion as members are fed up and leaving in droves. Oh, well…”
When you spend decades alienating thoughtful, conscientious folks…
…all you’re gonna end up left with are assholes.
So many filler articles to fill those biweekly mags for years...
Even the Bethelites got a kick of some of those crazy article.
One of my all time favorites:
"Your Servant the Pencil."
"Your Servant the Pencil."
I need to look that one up. I don’t know how I’ve lived to now without this information.
