The orange Paradise book.
What is the oldest witness publication you actually remember?
by AK - Jeff 40 Replies latest jw experiences
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Midget-Sasquatch
I remember the assembly where the yellow covered "My Book of Bible Studies" was first released for our language (not english)...It was at a cool race track.
Our official family study started with that book.
The earliest book I can clearly remember covering at the bookstudy was the red "Live Forever on Paradise on Earth", mostly the pictures. So who's warped in that case, the illustrators or me?
But my Dad did also study the red Youth book with me as well as the blue "Worship" book.
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HadEnuf
Paradise book.
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whyamihere
I found some of my Mom's old crap in the House. It was WT's from the late 50's and early 60's.
Brooke
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Purza
Yep -- the orange Paradise book. Funny, I don't remember being in fear of the pictures in that book. Maybe I was "desensitized" by the WTS at an early age.
Purza
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jillbedford
"Your Youth-Getting the Best Out of It" was red, not pink. The "Great Teacher" book was for little kids and it was pink. As many of you have mentioned, there was a peach book called, "Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained".
For me, the first big, big deal book was released in Yankee Stadium in 1970 and it was "The Truth that Leads to Everlasting Life".
As far as a study goes, I was raised in the truth, never missed a meeting, never missed Saturday morning field service and was a regular pioneer since 13 so a Bible study with me personally was deemed not necessary. I was the one who conducted the study.
The oldest important book I remeber, and I am betraying my age with this one, is the many, many versions of the New World Translation until we finally have this very thick green Bible. I personally had this thick green Bible.
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garybuss
We studied the Let God Be True book every Tuesday night at book study in the early 50's. The church bulletin was called the Informant and we read from it on Thursday nights.
I remember when the Witnesses started to write their own Bible and they issued it as fragment books. They got a LOT of additional book sales that way. Then when the Bible was all written, they printed it again in green cover. Everybody bought one or two and we thought they looked like crap so the Society offered them in black, so we all bought a black covered one. More book sales. It was a great marketing idea. Make extra sales from something not finished.
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AK - Jeff
Whoever decided to market that unfinished Bible was a genius.
Gary, that genius was most likely Fredrick Franz, wouldn't you think? I don't think Knorr ever did anything without his stamp on it! Never thought of that though. I have a couple of the partial green Bible's.
Jillbedford - are you sure on the release of the 'Truth' book in 1970? I was sure it was released in 1968.
Jeff
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garybuss
I'd bet Knorr made the call based on COC but whoever did it goes in the marketing hall of fame.
I think we should have been tipped off when books like the "THUTH" book was revised.
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Sunspot
The first one I saw was the "Truth" book that I was given when I began to study in 1970. When I began to attend the book study, we were studying the Babylon the Great one that has been mentioned. The ONLY thing I remember about that entire book, was a brother who had a very thick southern accent, and was extremely shy---trying to struggle through saying "Pontificus Maximus" a lot of times!
It was THE most tiresome book ever studied......and that's saying something! It was SO hard to understand. It didn't perk my enthusiasm for attending bookstudies!
Annie